looking for small 8000w gen recommendations - Page 2

 

is your need emergency only?

Or is this the only source of power that you will have at this
location?

 

philkryder wrote:

yes and yes

 

We've been pleased with the Briggs and Stratton EXL8000 that we have.
Though thus far we only have put about 50 hours on it.
It is noisy but not really worse than the HONDA ES6500s.

It handles our load much better than the HONDA ES6500 water cooled
units which we had before - so I assume that is somewhat due to a
better fit for our load.
It has a very high "advertized" surge load - though, I have no way to
test that and don't know what it really means since there are no
standards that I know of for surge rating.

We bought our unit on the web (we wanted TRI-fuel Propane,NG, gasoline)
-
but,
Our plan is to buy our next unit at Home Depot.
They stock this model for $1199 at our store.
They appear to have a 2 year commercial warrantee.

Our plan is to run them about one year (1000 hours or so) and then
"dispose" of them while still under warrantee.

good luck!
Phil

 

Arlyn Merriman wrote:

I have a 6200/8750 gas gen I use for backup. B&S Elite Series OHV,
sleeved unit. Bought it (new) locally (http://www.hackettsonline.com ). I
use it when my detroit diesel 12.5kw veggiegen is down for maintenance.
Paid $1200 for the B&S, and $3100 (delivered, used) for the Detroit.

--
Steve Spence
Dir., Green Trust, http://www.green-trust.org
Contributing Editor, http://www.off-grid.net
http://www.rebelwolf.com/essn.html

 

I'm very satisfied with a Honda Tri-fuel that I bought from
www.northerntool.com. I normally run it on propane, but like having the
gasoline option in case I am out of propane. Bought it in 1999 - no
problems - very reliable - electric start works first time, every time.
Stuart//