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Westinghouse 9500W / 12500W Home Backup Gas Powered Portable Generator
$800
$1,249
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Sam's Club has for their Members: Westinghouse 9500-Watt / 12500-Watt Home Backup Gas Powered Portable Generator (WGen9500DF) on sale for $799.98. 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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- This generator has a rating of 4.7 out of 5 based on over 13,800 customer reviews on Amazon.
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Sam's Club has for their Members: Westinghouse 9500-Watt / 12500-Watt Home Backup Gas Powered Portable Generator (WGen9500DF) on sale for $799.98. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter gaamn114 for finding this deal.
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Thanks to Deal Hunter gaamn114 for finding this deal.
Product Information:
- 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)
Editor's Notes
Written by SaltyOne | Staff- About this product:
- This generator has a rating of 4.7 out of 5 based on over 13,800 customer reviews on Amazon.
- Refer to the forum thread for discussion of this deal.
- About this store:
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
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Amazon has Westinghouse 9500-Watt / 12500-Watt Home Backup Gas Powered Portable Generator (WGen9500) on sale for $799.98. Shipping is free.
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Propane usually takes a kW hit, on the order of 10-15% for both peak and nominal. Also, you will go through propane tanks much faster than you will gas "tanks", but propane should be easier on the engine (cleaner)
Generators are specified by nominal and peak kw. Nominal is what the unit is designed to run for long periods of time. Peak is an instantaneous value caused when something happens all of a sudden but for a very short period of time like a motor or compressor kicking on. Probably not as relevant a number as nominal, as it's much more difficult to plan for peak usages like that.
Ugh the THD debate. Yes these WF non-Pro models have high THD. If I had my druthers, I'd love a low THD unit, but that's not going to happen at these price points. In fact I welcome anyone here to go find a 12.5kW inverter generator. Honda tends to make the largest "home" models but they typically top out around half this kW and cost several times as much.
That said, I believe the THD debate is moot. Would I prefer it? Why not, but I don't think it makes much difference, at least in the scope and scale that one would be using a generator like this. Also, the THD argument is really sourced 30-40 years ago when electronics were much less sophisticated than today. I've really tried finding hard data on this, and all I can find is *theory* about how *long term* use of "high THD" power could potentially cause slight overheating in certain components and perhaps premature failure. There's a LOT of qualifiers in that statement. I have not been able to find even a single semi-scientific study that tried to evaluate if the above assertion was even true. It might be that it is true, but to get to any real level of risk of damage you need to run for 10,000 hours, in which case that might as well as be never for 99.99% of people that own a generator.
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It amazes me how few people think about other fuels, but especially in the case of a backup generator that sees little use, it is tremendously important to NOT use gasoline.
When you ONLY run a generator on propane, you eliminate gunking up the carb with gasoline deposits, and along with that, all of the issues that make it hard to start after it sits for a long time between uses.
If I didn't already have my 12000W dual fuel Duromax, I would definitely buy this.
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This one looks a little slicker, duel fuel & remote start
A 4000W generator at 100lb with lesser power will do just fine for emergencies unless you want to host a party as well
Lots of resellers out there trying to get $169 or more for them, beware.
So $270 seems a liiittle steep...unless maybe including hardware and paid installation from the meter?
Thanks for the tip on the Champion 100520 [walmart.com]. Will absolutely never buy a unit like this with crazy high THD.
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A 4000W generator at 100lb with lesser power will do just fine for emergencies unless you want to host a party as well
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A 4000W generator at 100lb with lesser power will do just fine for emergencies unless you want to host a party as well
That said, I believe the THD debate is moot. Would I prefer it? Why not, but I don't think it makes much difference, at least in the scope and scale that one would be using a generator like this. Also, the THD argument is really sourced 30-40 years ago when electronics were much less sophisticated than today. I've really tried finding hard data on this, and all I can find is *theory* about how *long term* use of "high THD" power could potentially cause slight overheating in certain components and perhaps premature failure. There's a LOT of qualifiers in that statement. I have not been able to find even a single semi-scientific study that tried to evaluate if the above assertion was even true. It might be that it is true, but to get to any real level of risk of damage you need to run for 10,000 hours, in which case that might as well as be never for 99.99% of people that own a generator.
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Propane usually takes a kW hit, on the order of 10-15% for both peak and nominal. Also, you will go through propane tanks much faster than you will gas "tanks", but propane should be easier on the engine (cleaner)
Generators are specified by nominal and peak kw. Nominal is what the unit is designed to run for long periods of time. Peak is an instantaneous value caused when something happens all of a sudden but for a very short period of time like a motor or compressor kicking on. Probably not as relevant a number as nominal, as it's much more difficult to plan for peak usages like that.
Ugh the THD debate. Yes these WF non-Pro models have high THD. If I had my druthers, I'd love a low THD unit, but that's not going to happen at these price points. In fact I welcome anyone here to go find a 12.5kW inverter generator. Honda tends to make the largest "home" models but they typically top out around half this kW and cost several times as much.
That said, I believe the THD debate is moot. Would I prefer it? Why not, but I don't think it makes much difference, at least in the scope and scale that one would be using a generator like this. Also, the THD argument is really sourced 30-40 years ago when electronics were much less sophisticated than today. I've really tried finding hard data on this, and all I can find is *theory* about how *long term* use of "high THD" power could potentially cause slight overheating in certain components and perhaps premature failure. There's a LOT of qualifiers in that statement. I have not been able to find even a single semi-scientific study that tried to evaluate if the above assertion was even true. It might be that it is true, but to get to any real level of risk of damage you need to run for 10,000 hours, in which case that might as well as be never for 99.99% of people that own a generator.
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