Westinghouse 5000 Peak Watt Super Quiet Portable Inverter Generator, Remote Electric Start with Auto Choke, RV Ready 30A Outlet, Gas Powered, CO Sensor, Parallel Capable

Sometimes, you get unlucky and get a lemon. Other times, you get exactly what you expected, which turns out great. This is my opinion - This iGen4000c is amazing. It's very quiet and powerful enough to run my 13,500 BTU travel trailer AC unit, and the fridge. I'm still in the breaking period, so I haven't fully tested it, but I'm sure it will support the handful of 120 outlets I have as well. With the unit about 20 feet away from the camper, we can hardly hear it. Even starting next to it, you can have a normal conversation. Happy with this purchase and will likely upgrade to a larger one when I get a larger trailer.

Good directions. Handle & wheels so helpful. Name brand recognition. Holds 3.2 gallons of gas. Quiet. We searched alot of options. We wanted to make sure it handles a 1 HP sump pump. This one does.

Absolutely excellent generator.Very good quality.Built well and durable.Starts Everytime.Runs many hours with very efficient fuel consumption, very economical.Quiet.Can run many appliances and all types of power tools.Very well engineered .Not easy to change oil but worth the time it takes to do it right.Has what you need to get it done but oil changes are time consuming until you get real used to them.Wheels and long telescopic handle for easy transport over terrain.Good strong frame with strong handles to lift.Heavy tho for its size.The LED panel went out after a year.But minor things because this performs well, sincerely well, and is sort of impressive a gen set.

The Westinghouse 5000 Peak Watt Super Quiet Portable Inverter Generator arrived incredibly fast and was packaged with great care. Everything was in perfect condition right out of the box. It’s easy to set up—exactly what I was hoping for. Highly recommend!

Just arrived. Added the oil and gas, connected the quick connects to the battery and it started right up. It may not be as quiet as my brother's $3000 generator, but it's MUCH quiter than the cheap old generator I had been using.It's attractive, not that that matters for power purposes.I like the guage on front that tells you voltage, fuel level, etc.A nice little surprise was the supplied cord that plugs into the generator to charge the battery. Much easier than removing it or trying to get charger cables in the battery compartment.The oil fill dipstick is 3 or 4 inches inside the casing, so hard to see and reach. They compensated for that by supplying a screw in funnel for oil filling. But that funnel isn't long enough to have the cup strait up when filling. So that access and filling is the only downside I've found so far.

I’m an Electrician and Generator Dealer and Installer and have hooked up customer’s homes to various Portable Generators. Thus far my favorite is Westinghouse. This is a great product.

I really like the fact it includes a charger to maintain the small battery. We are off grid and sometimes need a generator and it's great to just hit the switch from inside the house. And they included a funnel that threads into the oil fill port. 10 stars for those 2 features. The previous generator switched off the remote start after 12 hours. Just now running it for the break in period, gonna change the oil then. I did buy a magnetic dipstick that fits right in. It's really quiet, even with the eco mode off.I will update soon.Update: The oil drain plug could be a little easier to get to. The plastic door is just a bit off to the right and my extension with a 10 mm socket didn't want to fit in. Short 1\4 inch ratchet and short socket works but it's tight. Barely had any metal crud on the magnetic dipstick after the break in period. (I ran it 6 hrs with varying loads)

The recent hurricane left us without power for a few days; afterwards we decided to finally buy a generator, and settled on the Westinghouse iGen5000.When opening the box I found the rear cover had come off, and there was a small metal piece that looked to be part of a clip. I looked around and couldn't tell where it might've come from, so I figured I'd look at the parts schematic to see where it might belong. The schematic is printed so small as to be worthless.A couple tools were included: a screwdriver, a spark plug wrench, and an oil funnel. Because the generator appeared otherwise undamaged, I decided to put it through its break-in process. I wanted to make sure I knew how the panels come off, but discovered the handle of the screwdriver is so thin that one can't get enough grip to take the screws off the panels. The spark plug wrench is likewise unusable: I tried taking the plug out but the plug is in so tightly that it won't budge. I'm going to have to get a thin walled deep socket to remove the plug, I think.You're also going to need a 10mm wrench for the oil drain plug, and you'll also need a 13mm (more on that in a moment).Something I like is the threaded tip to the oil funnel, which makes filling the generator with oil very easy.I hate to admit it, but I got confused by the fuel switch (the switch shown in the users guide was different): I inferred the three settings were open choke (ie, Run), half-open, and closed (ie, Start). They're actually Closed Fuel valve (ie, STOP), choke open (ie, Run), and choke closed (ie, Start). So I spent the first several times starting it, then inadvertently shutting it off by turning the dial all the way to the left. I'm sure the neighbors wondered why I kept starting then immediately stopping the engine. The switch shown in the Quick Start guide actually matched the one on my machine.The second time I ran it, a small rubber cap came off of somewhere; I figured out it was a screw cover from on top of the machine, and replaced the cap. I do like the handle: it seems sturdy and makes it easy to roll the generator around.After the break-in, I wanted to change the oil. There's the 10mm drain plug, and the idea is that you pull out the little rubber plug in the bottom panel, and the oil drains through the hole in the panel. But the drain plug threads into a silly little "spigot," and that's threaded into the oil pan. So when you try to turn the drain plug, the spigot comes off, and the oil drains into the panel (missing the hole) then you've got a big mess on your hands. You'll need the 13mm to hold the spigot to get the drain plug out of it.Bottom line, I guess I'm a little disappointed but begrudgingly satisfied--the generator starts and runs (very quietly too), and I think we're ready for the next power outage. A few things that would've made the process smoother for me would be more usable maintenance tools, and a usable parts diagram. It'd be nice to have less ambiguous text (or perhaps color code) on the fuel switch. Having the spigot threaded into the pan means you've got to hold that while removing the drain plug, otherwise you'll have a mess.