Westinghouse 12500 Peak Watt Home Backup Portable Generator, Remote Electric Start with Auto Choke, Transfer Switch Ready, Gas Powered, CO Sensor

Amazon delivery was perfect, 2 guys from Amazon delivered the generator, very polite and loaded on a hand truck and put it in the garage where I wanted it, and I didn't even have to help. Amazon did a awesome job delivering. I then read through all the paperwork and then the assembly was really easy. It yook me longer to read through the manuals than assembly lol. I did the assembly 100% by myself. Some very important tips that you will not see in the instructions: take a razor blade/utility knife and cut about a half inch up from the floor around the entire bottom of the box (make sure the box is sitting in upright position) take your time and make sure you cut all the way through and then lift the entire box straight up off the generator. Flip that over and you will have a perfect box to throw all the trash into. Next tip: lift up on the side of the generator and put some scrap 2x4s or anything very sturdy and then let the generator rest on the blocks and then that gives you the height to install the legs on the bottom, when you are done that side move the blocks to the other side and Install the wheels effortlessly and you can do it if you don't have help. That's pretty much it, add the gas and oil. The owners manual and I would strongly recommend using non ethanol gas and also add a good fuel stabilizer to the non ethanol gas, unless you are using this generator once a month I would recommend the fuel stabilizer because most people if you are using this as emergency backup power could go months or even years without using the gas. I would strongly recommend also to start the generator every month or every few months and let it run for a while just to exercise it some, also should hook it to the house and put a load on it atleast once a year. Also be sure to leave the battery charger plugged in at all times to keep the battery charged or when you need the generator the battery may be dead and it won't start. I love how the battery charger is built into the generator, the previous generator I owned, I had to purchase a trickle charger and install it on the battery myself, so that's awesome. Another tip: do not use all of the oil they sent, keep an eye on the dipstick and add oil very slowly and it shouldn't quite take the whole bottle of oil, don't over fill it. I used the included 10w-30 but as recommended will switch to the synthetic 5w30 after oil change which I would recommend pretty quickly because there's a lot of metal shavings in the oil after the initial break in period. It fired right up with the push button and the key fob also worked great. It seems to run pretty smoothly so far. It is noisy but it's to be expected, nothing unusually loud for a generator. The generator seems to be built pretty solid and happy with the purchase, time will tell if it holds up, but I am definitely hoping it lasts. I shouldn't say it but kinda looking forward to the power going out so I can fire this thing up and make it feel like it was worth the purchase lol

We just made it through a 5-day power outage with this generator! It was super easy to put together and runs great! We went with the large wattage since we live in the country and have a well. Since our house is all electric, it should see us through outages any time of the year. Great price was a bonus!!

Purchased a 7500 watt Westinghouse generator in 2020 and went thru 3 hurricanes here in Florida and was running on generator power for a week each time. Generator ran flawless. Decided to purchase next size up on generator power and without hesitation bought another Westinghouse.

Very reliable generator at a reasonable price. Powers my entire home and runs continuously without interruption.

Only downside is the fact that the battery charger is not fully sealed. My cover had a side pocket that has a flap with a piece of velcro holding it shut and when it rained, I went out yesterday to just check everything and the plug is full of water and ruined. Now off to search for a new one to buy. Generator has only started once and ran less than 10 minutes.

Excelente

great product i have 2 now saved me twice with no power

Terrific generator. Runs our whole house. Love the remote start.