Anyone have any experience with Harbor Freight generators? Looking at getting prepared for hurricane season here in Florida, and last year I told myself I'm getting a dang generator lol.

I'm looking at a Harbor Freight 8750/7000 model. Looks like it should be plenty to run my refrigerator, freezer, microwave when needed, wife's medical stuff that she has to use 3 times a day, fan at night, and keep laptops and phones charged. Maybe even run a TV every once in a while. I'm liking this model not only because of the price to wattage output, but because of the electric start. If I'm not home and it runs out of gas, I'd like it to be easy enough for my wife to be able to just fill it back up and hit the start button.

I know that Harbor Freight items can be finiky, but to be honest I've never really had many problems with the vast majority of their products that I've bought. I think it all comes down to setting your expectations of the product accordingly, and not abusing them like they're high dollar premium products that can take it lol.

Opinions?

Thanks

 

I got this one from HF https://www.harborfreight.com/engine...tor-63584.html a couple of years ago mainly for power in my new work shop I had built behind the house. Out there it powers the 4 overhead fluorescent lights, Air Compressor, TV, and a 10,000 BTU A/C unit.
It doesn't even break a sweat powering these all at once. Then last year we lost power for 2 days. I had it powering the refrigerator, freezer, 2 TV's, 2 computers, microwave when needed and a couple of lights. It worked great although I was close to maximum wattage that it can do. I now have over 200 hours on it and it never missed a beat. With that big 8750/7000 you should be able to power a bunch if stuff in your house. especially with the extra outlets you have.

 

Cool, thank you for the insight!

I would much rather have an inverter generator for sure because of the cleaner power output and the fact that they're typically more quiet, but to get one large enough to run an entire household would cost as much as a small car, more than what I actually paid for my Blazer AND my Saturn combined lol