SIMPSON PowerShot Portable 3,600 Watt Generator with Roll Cage Frame Protection and Low Oil Shutdown Feature for Outdoor Generators

I purchased this in 2019, filled it with gas + gas life extender, and there it sat for 4 years.Lost power last night for 12 hours.After 3 hours I pulled this out and it was easy enough to follow the instructions. Around the time of purchase I also had an electrician set up a box to run some crucial items (refrigerator, microwave, water pump, hot water heater, etc.) I had to get this running, connect it, and then switch those items to run on the generator.What can I say, it started up and ran for 9 hours (the tank was near empty at the end). The price of this, I had at least that much food in the fridge and garage freezer. And it allowed us to have water (we are on a well and pump).This thing paid for itself with one use, anything after this is bonus.It is loud, very loud, but that is probably par for the course. we don't have any houses real close to us, and before I started this I heard their generators, so I guess that's just how it is.

This thing is great! I don’t know what people are complaining about in most reviews...this thing IS NOT THAT LOUD!!!If you are getting a generator of this type you have to expect some noise, and I am more than happy with the noise level it creates, and is much better than what I was expecting. Great generator for the price, you won’t be disappointed!!

For context: I'm not a mechanic, and I don't know anything about cars or motors. I've been running our lawn mower for 20 years, but that's about the extent of my mechanical knowledge. Still, with all the hurricanes hitting our area almost every year it seemed wise to buy a generator before it was our turn to have a week-long power outage like so many others in our extended neighborhood.This seems to be on the high-ish end for watts generated (they seem to range from 3,000ish to 10,000ish), which is great. I was a bit surprised to find that even though it says it will "run for 16 hours" that actually means if NOTHING IS PLUGGED IN. If you've got a bunch of things plugged in and are running at max capacity, the manual says it will run through 1.25 gallons of gasoline/hour, so the 6 gallon tank would last you just 4-5 hours, which means you'd definitely be needing a refill at some point during the middle of the night. My suggestion is to instead scale back to just the bare necessities--fridge and freezer, then maybe ramp it up for an hour here and there to recharge batteries, cook dinner, etc., and restrict heating/air conditioning to just a couple of rooms so you won't go through gasoline quite as quickly. Gas shortages seem to happen with most of our power outages, so you'll want to have some extra on hand (though I'm confess I'm also nervous about stashing 20 gallons of gasoline near my house, on the off chance that a teenager decides to smoke one day and sends the whole thing up in flames, creating an entirely different style of emergency). Soo I'm balancing those two needs against each other, and keeping the 6 gallons in tank + another 5-10 in the garage (with my fingers crossed). Remember that you should NOT run the generator in a garage or even under a patio, so I'm thinking that if I ever need to use this I might set up our 10x10 canopy (for sporting events) to keep it both away from the house and out of the rain, then run extension cords into the house.Getting this set up was ridiculously challenging for something this easy. It took us 3 minutes to figure out where the oil intake even IS (why on earth did they not label it and point to it in the owner's manual?), then another 3 minutes to figure out where the choke is (again--why in heaven's name did they not label that in the owner's manual instead of pointing to all the pieces I'll never need to know?), and I'm thinking I'll label the darn things in magic marker so I'll be able to find them when I need them. Seriously--the owner's manual covers all the obscure things, but not the basics that you need to know in order to run the darn thing. I guess it assumes you already know where to find them, but, well, I'm a 40-something homeowner and I don't. The machine was also missing 2 of the washers that you're supposed to have in order to attach the wheels, so I'm just crossing my fingers that they're not particularly important.So getting everything set up took us probably 90 minutes (though a mechanical expert could probably do it in 20), and then it seemed to start up fairly well and ran very smoothly. I can't speak to whether all the plugs actually work the way they're supposed to, but it seems like it should be great.One more quick note--this requires 10W-30 oil, and comes with a full quart included, but if you want to fill the oil to "high" (as suggested in the manual), you'll actually need about 1.5 quarts, so you may want to pick up an extra if you don't have one around the house.And another quick note--I see another review stating this requires a battery. Ours doesn't, but we *did* need to start it by hand, the way you do a lawn mower.

After reading the other reviews, I found a common theme, and that was how loud everyone said it was. To my surprise and delight, it was no more noisy than my Subaru 5500.

I received the product and it had been dropped and broken. Amazon paid me for the product eventually but shipping the product back was very expensive and I received a sizable monetary loss. I will purchase small items on Amazon but buying any sizable or heavy product that may have issues will not be purchased through Amazon. I felt like I was playing a shell game.

For the price I was sceptical, too cheap, best genny I've bought, works perfectly for my race car operation

Loved that it got to me so guick.

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