In my case, living in NYS, in a trailer. We have the power out for a couple
days long, during ice storms. Did that in 1991, 2003, and another part of
the state got wiped out, 2006. After the first day, the cold is really
miserable, and a generator is nice to have.

You can get a chinky junky at Harbor Freight for under $100, but don't
expect 200 hours of run time. Still, that hundred bucks can buy you some
furnace run time.

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"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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That is why I don't have a generator. One time we were out for two
days (hurricane Gloria). Another time we were out for 8 hours. Never
had any outages more than 30 minutes at any other time in my life.

I can't justify having $1000 sitting out in the garage not used.

Back to your math. Would you have it running 24 hours a day? I bet
that 8.33 days can easily be 16.66 or more.

Very possible. I've heard that Hondas run a long time.

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I suspect the 200 hour figure only applies to the cheap junk from Harbor
Fright. I've got 730 hours on a 8000 watt Generac.

It's also a good idea to do a practice run. So that you know for sure you
have the right wiring, fittings, etc, to make things work. Also a good idea
to include other house members in the practice run in case you are sick with
the flu, and your spouse, teenagers, or adult children need to run the
generator.

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"gregz" wrote in message
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I figure on 80 hours in 10 years, on my lawn tractor.

I got a $350(reduced to $300) aldi generator. Looks just like the yamaha or
hondas.
Probably made by the same company. I need to play around with it. It's a
6kw peak, 5500 continuous. Just looked over consumer reports. Not much of a
review.
So mine looks like the $2600 yahama. If mine only works 200 hours, probably
a good buy.

Greg

On 9/29/2012 9:15 PM, wrote:
On 09/29/2012 11:40 AM, Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

I remember from
some where, a typical generator is designed for about 200 hours of use,
before it wears out. That's much more time than typical home owner
will ever
put on it.

I realize this is an older thread, but I'm just getting to it. Let's
see, 200/24 = 8.33. So you're claiming that a typical homeowner won't be
needing a generator for a total of just over a week? I'd say anyone who
expects that level of reliability from their power company doesn't need
a generator at all.


I suspect the 200 hour figure only applies to the cheap junk from Harbor
Fright. I've got 730 hours on a 8000 watt Generac.


Back in the 90's I installed a lot of Generac 8kw units in homes and the
gensets had the Briggs & Stratton Vanguard V-twin which is a pretty
good engine. The last Generac I installed had the Generac produced
V-twin which is a better engine. Which one do you have? ^_^

TDD

On 09/30/2012 10:44 AM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 9/29/2012 9:15 PM, wrote:

I suspect the 200 hour figure only applies to the cheap junk from Harbor
Fright. I've got 730 hours on a 8000 watt Generac.


Back in the 90's I installed a lot of Generac 8kw units in homes and the
gensets had the Briggs & Stratton Vanguard V-twin which is a pretty
good engine. The last Generac I installed had the Generac produced
V-twin which is a better engine. Which one do you have? ^_^

TDD

Yah, should have included that. It is a Generac XP8000E that I bought in
2009. It has the Generac OHVI engine.

I've put about 200 hours on it during power outages and the rest was put
on by a contractor I rented it to.

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On 09/30/2012 08:06 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
wrote in message
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I suspect the 200 hour figure only applies to the cheap junk from Harbor
Fright. I've got 730 hours on a 8000 watt Generac.



Very possible. I've heard that Hondas run a long time.

Christopher A. Young
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Honda generators are excellent as well but our local Generac dealer has
a very impressive parts, service and loaner department. They do all the
commercial stuff like hospitals and large retail stores.

Have you had good results with Generac?

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Honda generators are excellent as well but our local Generac dealer has
a very impressive parts, service and loaner department. They do all the
commercial stuff like hospitals and large retail stores.
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"Stormin Mormon" wrote:
Have you had good results with Generac?

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Honda generators are excellent as well but our local Generac dealer has
a very impressive parts, service and loaner department. They do all the
commercial stuff like hospitals and large retail stores.
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Consumers reports top picks

Troy built
Generac
Troy built
Honda
Yahama
Champion
All power
Gentron

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Briggs & Stratton

Fixed
Kohler
Generac

All the ratings were or particular models.

Greg