Anyone have suggestions for cold weather gasoline generators? 1200 - 1500 watt.
Use to love Champion, but when had to replace last two new ones were junk. Never ran right and one died 12 months in.
Mostly run in winter. Use for lights, charging small battery bank.
@LindaWisner We've had good luck with Craftsman and Toro. Our current one is a Toro 5600 watt, though.
@LindaWisner I don't even know if Craftsman makes them anymore.
The husband hooked up the 5600 watt so it runs the house. Mostly. We'll have heat and lights, but can't have the electric water heater on and can't use the stove or clothes dryer.
To shower, we have to turn almost everything off, flip the breaker for the water heater back on, wait a half hour, shower quickly, then switch it all back.
Wish we could afford an automatic generator. *sigh*
That's one thing about being off grid. Need to plan everything. Not a big deal after a while. Been building up solar. Winter is problem bcuz of sun. Did buy turbine but no time to install last fall. Next year's summer project. Thanks again!
@GeezerWench
We had a big toro for 8 yrs? Loved it. Only thing missing was low oil shut off, but I always check before running. We run little genny for little stuff alot. Big genny for well and big stuff occasionally. Big one 13000 and gulps gallon of gas an hour. Usually only have to run 15 mins. Little genny 3/4 gallon for 6ish hours. Maybe I'll see if small toro available. Thanks 😊