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Amazon has Westinghouse 12,500-Watt Home Backup Gas Powered Portable Generator w/ Remote Electric Start & Auto Choke (WGen9500) on sale for $711. Shipping is free.

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  • 9500 Running Watts and 12500 Peak Watts; Remote Start With Included Key Fob, Electric and Recoil Start; Up to 12 Hours of Run Time on a 6.6 Gallon Fuel Tank With Fuel Gauge
  • Features Two GFCI 120V 5–20R Standard Household Receptacle, One Transfer Switch Ready 120V L14-30R, One RV Ready 120/240V 14–50R, and Two 5V USB Ports; All Outlets Have Rubber Covers for Added Safety
  • Powered by a Heavy Duty 457cc Westinghouse 4-Stroke OHV Engine Featuring a Long-Lasting Cast Iron Sleeve With Automatic Low Oil Shutdown and Digital Hour Meter
  • Plug-and-Play: Comes With a Remote Start Key Fob, 12V Battery Charger, Oil, an Oil Funnel, a Tool Kit, and a User's Manual to Get You Started Right Out of the Box (Minimal Assembly Required)
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Amazon [amazon.com] has Westinghouse 12500 Watt Home Backup Portable Generator, Remote Electric Start with Auto Choke, Transfer Switch Ready 30A & 50A Outlets, Gas Powered, CARB Compliant on sale for $711. Shipping is free.
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    Product Name: Westinghouse 12500 Watt Home Backup Portable Generator, Remote Electric Start with Auto Choke, Transfer Switch Ready 30A & 50A Outlets, Gas Powered, CARB Compliant
    Manufacturer: Westinghouse
    Model Number: WGen9500
    Product SKU: B07HYWDS7D
    UPC: 853544008199
    ASIN: B07HYWDS7D
    Brand: Westinghouse Outdoor Power Equipment
    Item Dimensions LxWxH: 27.2 x 26.1 x 26.5 Inches
    Item Weight: 220 Pounds
    Item model number: WGen9500
    Manufacturer: Westinghouse
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    Doesn't matter. The way 240v is fed into your house, imagine that you have a line down the middle of your breaker panel* where that voltage is 0. The left side of the panel is -120v to 0, so a 120v difference, and the right side is 0 to +120, so also a 120 difference. Small circuits, like TVs and lights, only go halfway across. If you hook up a big appliance from left to right, you're going from -120 to +120v=240v. So a 240v generator feeds both sides of the panel, which is the whole house. A 120v generator could only do left-to-middle or right-to-middle, but not both. This one will run the full 12k over that 50A plug, and split the load between the two sides of your panel.

    *Slight over simplification for explanation purposes.
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    THD is rated < 23%. That's really high - you would need something like a UPS with sine wave to not fry your electronics.
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    Just a thought for the gallery.....up to 13 hours on 6.gallons. Let's call it 12 gallons per day. If you feel like you are covered for the event of say a 3 day outage, you're going to need to buy some gasoline storage.

    There are whole house stand-by generators designed to handle longer duration outages that usually run on LP or natural gas. Storage and delivery is less of a problem (usually). And, yes these are $$thousands installed. I am not comparing the posted deal to these for the sake of price, only to stimulate consideration of what the actual function will be.

    A large and inefficient gasoline generator is a pretty minimalist approach and would likely only serve for 24-48 hours due to its thirst for fuel. A much smaller and much more efficient inverter generator might be a a good companion to such a behemoth. Something like recent 4kw offerings will run your refrigerator/freezer and a whole bunch of other convenience items in your home and only use about 4 gallons of gasoline per day.

    No knock on the OP deal. I am just suggesting there would best be some consideration regarding how a generator such as this fits into one's emergency power plan.
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    Radioactive_muffin
    11-25-2022 at 08:07 PM.
    11-25-2022 at 08:07 PM.
    Quote from beakerguy6 :
    Thanks for the input, I have been rethinking this and may watch for a smaller gen or inverter gen for the few times I need it. Knock on wood, we lose power very seldom.
    This is really like the awkward middle spot for generators anyway. It's just big enough to run a 4-5 ton A/C unit for the whole house. But running much else is going to run it pretty close to the power limits, and if a water heater or well pump kicks on then it might trip the breaker and turn everything off. If you want to power the whole home, I'd recommend the Wgen12000 model (this is the Wgen9500), which will power pretty much everything in a medium sized house that you'd need to be comfortable during inclement weather, except maybe keeping the clothes dryer/electric range off. As well as the Wgen12000 is rated with a distoration (THD) of <5%, a far cry better than the <23% of this one; not quite an inverter generator, but basically everything except for the most sensitive testing/audio equipment should run off of it.
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    maverick712
    12-06-2022 at 05:19 PM.
    12-06-2022 at 05:19 PM.
    I know this is an old post but these are still relatively cheap at $800 on Amazon. I am currently remodeling my home and had plans for a 24kv Generac whole home. After going through the city requirements and realizing it was going to basically sit on my side deck as well as running 100' of 1.25" gas line, I decided that wiring in a 50amp transfer switch for this model generator was the sensible thing to do. Generac quote was going to be close to $20k with the gas line extension. I'm in Dallas where we lost power and had to abandon our house in the freak storm of 2021 and while i'm not necessarily worried that will happen again in the next 10 years, i'm more concerned about the summer's ending up in a brown out due to the increasing number of people moving here and ERCOT not knowing their a$$ from their elbow. I believe with 12.5kv peak i'll be able to run at least 1 HVAC, refrigeration and internet if needed in the summer and add pool pumps in the winter if ever needed again.
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