Choosing an Emergency Backup Generator: Westinghouse iGen2200 

I also ordered one at $299 shipped from Sam's Club.

I just ordered one of these last night from Sam's Club on sale for $299. I believe I picked it up at a steal also.

Excellent review... really appreciated. Just ordered the one from Sam's for $299 :)

Not sure if this is a repeat comment, don't know if the first posted. I don't know who you are, but this is by far the BEST product review I've ever seen, Thanks.

Great job on this video. Very informative and well put together.

Very good information. I have a Honda 3000 but was looking for something more lighter and mobile to use in my van for trips. Very happy with my Honda as it is both quiet and very dependable but pricey. I'm going to invest on this smaller unit and hope all goes well with it. Thanks again for your valuable report.

Awesome review sir, thank you!

Great information; thanks for posting. Now, these are around $500 - $550 but one place has them on sale for $319. I'm thinking of ordering it but was wondering what will it actually power in real life. I'm glad I ran across your informative video.

Thanks for making the time to make this helpful video

Excellent explanation! Clear and informative. Subbed!

GREAT review ! Thanks

Great vid.

I just noticed I went live with a slightly older version of this video. The newest version has a correction to the 'parallel operation' graph at 15:30. The animation of the graph implies that more voltage will be delivered in parallel operation when you actually get additional wattage by synchronizing two inverter generators. I think the material impact is minimal as the voice-over describes it correctly so I'll leave it up with this footnote.

I have solar generators but not enough solar panels if I’m using all of them, or if there’s poor solar conditions. I bought this gas generator specifically to charge up the power stations as needed. I can charge two or three at a time depending on what I am charging. I used it today to try it out and recharged three power stations in a couple of hours. I love the solar generators for using indoors. They’ll run just about anything and they make very little noise. You might want to consider a couple of them for computers and wifi and so on. I have energy efficient fridge and freezers so I can run them with individual power stations. We get outages and storms here so I feel so much better knowing I can keep my food safe. Between those and a few camping items, we have to make only minor adjustments in an outage. Walking around after sundown with flashlights and praying your food is ok is not something I care to do anymore. Thanks for an in depth review of this! I found it easy to setup and it’s something I can move around on my own which is important.

Nice Review!

Good video just order that exact generator. Already have a 7000 watt generator but after the snow storm this year this would have saved me some money. ( fuel)

Thanks Mike!!

Great review. Most comprehensive I've seen.

Love You Tube. THANK YOU SIR. GREAT JOB FOR A NEWBEE. GOD BLESS

Thanks! I just purchased a iGen2200 off of Amazon. This was a very good introduction.

Very helpful. I just got to Westinghouse Igen 200 . If I lose power I just need to power my headlamp and phones

Thank you for your explaining inverter vs. standard generators. I live in the California fire zone and will use it when the power is shut off due to high winds. Just bought one from Amazon, $379.99 delivered in two days!

When you have it on the Eco Mode does it only throttle up enough to make the wattage needed or does it go right to Full Throttle like a space heater made it do, and how fast does it burn the little bit of gas under a load, thank you and it was a wonderful video

Love R.O.B by the way...

thanks for the nice review, should i use mobile 1 synthetic 10-30 oil and regular 87 gas + fuel stabil?

Though the generator has a 3 year warranty Westinghouse's warranty repair service is slow. I bought a 2200 and it was great. I wanted to run it in tandem so I purchased a Westingthouse 2500, which is very similar to the 2200. After 14 hours the 2500 stopped working. It took 2 weeks to finally to talk to someone and another month in the repair shop. That did no fully fix the problem, so it took another 2-3 weeks of emails and calls (initiated everytime on my part) and still have not came up with a resolution. I have requested they send me a new generator. In the end, I have been without a generator for 2 1/2 months and still no end in sight.

Picked up 2 from the Sam's Club deal but the parallel cable is out of stock everywhere! Any leads??

Hey LilMikey. What's that big white thing behind you? I tried to figure it out but it's got me stumped. Did you build it? It looks like a standup piano and a refrigerator had a baby.

How was it when you connected your refrigerator and light? Nice video!

Hey sweet Tshirt...from Alberta

I appreciated your review and have a question. You wanted the generator to prevent some of the problems you had during an extended power outage earlier. You mentioned losing all the food in your refrigerator, which seemed like the biggest issue. Did you ever test your generator to see if it would power the refrigerator in question. A refrigerator shouldn’t need much power if the inside temperature is stable, but does have a decent power draw at the start of each cooling cycle.

Very good video but just one comment about the availability of gasoline in a dire situation. Like you I thought siphoning gas from either or both of my two vehicles from the garage would be sufficient but a little investigation showed me that it's almost impossible with newer cars to do that because of the configuration of the fill pipe in the car. Bummer!

The “pandemlc” LOL. I had to change the spelling so I didn’t get BANNED

On sale at sams club right now for 329.

How did you calculate starting watts for your fridge? My refrigerator uses 8.5 amps or 1020 watts to run. What will the peak wattage be and will the Westinghouse igen 2500 which peaks at 2500 watts and runs at 2200 be enough to run my fridge? We have occasional outages where I live and am considering buying one. What's your thoughts on this?

I have 2 of these and I'm looking for a extended run time fuel setup for them but I can't seem to fine a kit made for the igen2200. Does anyone know of one that works?

Hi so I live in California and I don't have ethanol-free gas what do you recommend for someone that doesn't have any means for ethanol free gas

The Westinghouse uses the Honda motor so what’s the real difference from a Honda?

I only need a generator for my heater..low 700 watts..high 1500 watt..I would like to run 2 heaters if possible..I have power stations to run everything else. My home is about 650 sqft. Ty

Hi how do you know when to ground the generator? Thx

Should I leave the remaining fuel inside the generator if I won't use it for several weeks?

The reality is .. most of the generators out there , ryobie , preditor , westinghouse the list goes on are all made by Ducar so it doesn't really matter who's you buy they are all basically the same . Some have other features but the basic generator and motor are made by Ducar , so buy the cheapest one you can find they're all the same go figure .

Sorry to say about Honda I love Honda products but the Westinghouse has a much better surge power that the Honda . for the price you cannot beat the Westinghouse or the Predator from Harbor Freight .

If it's in this exact case, it's made by Generac. I have the Coleman. Bought 3 of them on clearance at Walmart for $300/each. 1 for me, 1 for my sister and another as a housewarming gift. These things are awesome. Clean the spark arrestor with 91% rubbing alcohol and a brass brush with every oil change. I do it every 50 hours, no matter what. Ethanol free rec gas is your friend with these. There are many RU-vids on how to make your own. Water absorbs ethanol and gas floats on water. Pretty simple, actually.

$299 online at Sam's Club right now.

WOW,,,$$500 NOW!! LOL.

Looked at your link, $497.

I don't think any of these portable 2000 watt generators are powerful enough for back up power for your home, 2000 watts isn't a whole lot when you hook up a refrigerator , air conditioner, space heater, or run a washing machine , they are made more for camping to power a TV, recharge your phone batteries, a few lights and a fan , for the same money you spend on one of these small inverters, you can buy a open frame inverter generator for the same price but will put out 3500-4000 watts enough to run a room air conditioner , where a 2000 watt generator would struggle or possibly not be able to,

The size of that gen not worth the money.