Love your channel. Been watching all your vids and they are great! Nice to have honest reviews. You hit all the high points. Keep it up cause I'm still shopping.
@@GeneratorReviewsif you had to compare the noise level to something What would you compare it to? I have a food truck and I want something pretty quiet.
For best test results you should add your excess 520 watt load equally divided between L1 and L2 as you had 35+ amps on one leg,, and 30 on the other when it tripped out on OL on the first test.
100 % agree. You put the extra overload only on L1, not a great thing to do. You may burn out winding. What would be interesting is to see if the overload is only for the total of both lines, or if you just had say 4000 watts on L1 without anythign on L2.
@@SuperRobkar You won't burn out the winding. Think of this, you roll this out of your garage and plug in your table saw which is on a 120 volt circuit. Then you turn it on. All of that load runs on one leg. There's no balancing. The manual states in order to maximize the the amperage on the generator then you'll need to balance the loads out. Otherwise, it's perfectly fine doing what Gavin did. He didn't get 7700 watts, though. He overloaded one leg.
Really good explanation of the load test for the Predator. It really did great on the test. But compared with the Duromax. Dual fuel. I think I would go with the Duromax the dual fuel always a good option to have plus the 3 year warranty, I believe harbor freight only gives you 3 months on there. I’ll be waiting for the video on the double meter you had there also. I imagine you use two different meters one for each leg of electricity. Thanks for your video buddy. I appreciate them. 👍
Have you considered surge watt test? Could run the 7200w heater then quickly turn on and off an additional 2000w load. Think viewers would interested to know if the predator 9500 really has 500 extra starting watts over the duromax
Happy to have stumbled upon the channel. Good stuff! For future ones can you do 2 additional measurements? 1) maximum starting watts on the largest outlet (240V/30A in this case) and 2) run time at 80% running capacity (6000W here)? I am looking to use this as my emergency home generator with a transfer switch as well as an RV/camping power solution. Knowing the largest 1-2s spike the biggest plug will accomodate would be helpful. I typically like to purchase equipment that puts me at 80% utilization to provide room for swings as well as promote long-term health of the product; so runtime at 80% would be also a good piece of info. I am buying the predator. Perhaps you know the above from your use of it maybe?
Thanks for watching Run time videos are hard to make unless it’s a power outage. I would definitely drive my neighbors crazy for 12 hours running a Generator at 80% I like that you have a maximum load in mind of where you limit your generator I wish everyone would keep that in mind. I will definitely consider your recommendation on my next review Thanks Steven
@@GeneratorReviews True thats fair. Maybe run it at 80% load for 30 mins and see how much fuel is consumed? Like if it eats 1/5th tank in 30 mins at 80% then probably 2.5 hours @80% with full tank.
@@GeneratorReviews Ah..ok. So you are only using 120V. I assume then you use some kind of adapter to go from the 30-amp twist lock to the large 50-amp RV connector?
Building a monitor isn't that difficult.... Get the meters off of Amazon..$17 each, put it in a plastic box with the plug in and plug out and a little bit of four conductor wire... It will set you back a few bucks though because all the parts add up. It would be nice if somebody made and sold them cheaper than you could put it together yourself... I bet many RV owners would love one.... It beats the trial and error method of causing your generator to cut off. You could save a lot of the cost by omitting the plug/ receptacle and just putting it into an existing extension cord. It's going to run you about $75-100 parts to put one together. 15 male plug 15 female plug 10 3 ft wire 10 plastic junction box 35 two ammeters from amazon Cable clamps
The switch still confuses me (sorry)...I have a 220/240v plug that I plug in to my 9500 to run all of my food truck. Can i run a 208v machine (just the machine) thru my L14-30R plug on my truck on 120v switch side ..or do I need to turn it on the 120v/240v switch side? I ask this question because I was trying out 2 different machines on my truck...and the 208v machine (which uses less power than another 110v machine) couldn't pull enough power (7600 starting watts) and wouldn't world properly. But with my other machine (8500 starting watts)...I ran a 10gauge plug to the 120v outlet (not the 220 from the truck) and it worked fine with just the 120v switch only turned on. Why is that? Please help all the way in Hawaii!! ALOHA!!
I have a small single wide mobile home. I have one mobile home cable that runs almost everything that plugs into the PGE box, but the A/C and water heater is connected to a separate hard wire to the PGE box. Not knowing/understanding how this trailer is wired, I purchased a Predator 3500. It runs the trailer home fine, but no hook up for A/C (220v). It seems your real smart on these generators. What would you recommend for the best 9,000 Watt Dual Fuel Portable Inverter Generator w/ CO Alert, 50 amp plug and clean computer voltage. I think I would like to use Propane.
Still looking for a video that goes thru all this only hooked to a house? Wondering if the 240 with only 30 amps is enough amps to run a whole house? Is the 30 amp per leg so you get a total of 60 amp service to your house? Or only 30 amps which does not seem like enough to run a whole house?
First of all I always recommend that you don’t do this to your generator These are my test Generators I’m making a video so you can see what the generator can do before you buy it. Please just enjoy the video and don’t do this to your generator Trust me my personal generator is broken in perfectly Thanks for watching and thanks for your feedback.
That’s pretty good usually manufacturers are not that honest about their running watts, that’s why I like doing this test hold them accountable especially when you’re paying this much for the generator
@@GeneratorReviews thank you sir. New subscriber. Picked mine up yesterday. Experimenting now. Did my first oil change at 3 hours. Oh boy, shined my flashlight on it and it was glitter city. Gonna do my next one at 10 hours. Thanks for the great detail you put in your videos. Tim.
@@GeneratorReviews hey Gavin, been running this thing for about ten days now. It was supposed to one up my Honda eu7000. My Honda wasn’t quite enough for my application running the whole house and charging the off grid battery bank at the same time. The Honda was real close but would occasionally hit overload. I’m using the predator now and I actually think it isn’t even as good as the Honda. I think it is tripping the overload around 6K watts. I haven’t put my meter on it yet, the numbers I’m using come from my mate 3 monitor on my off grid power system. I will update after I actually put a meter on it and read it. So far I’m pretty disappointed. I’m even running non ethanol premium in it. I’m wondering if it should have a carb adjustment? It seems to run smooth and fine it just keeps overloading prematurely. So far I would say not a Honda killer. My hope is Honda will respond with a predator killer that is 10k surge, and 8k constant watts. Love all your videos. Keep up the good work.
@@Idahodeerslayer Hey Tim, have you changed your oil yet? That’s 240 hrs at near max power. I would definitely recommend synthetic oil for longer intervals and change your plug to a NGK
So far I think it’s pretty solid, I only have about three hours on this one load testing it. I’m going to keep testing it but so far I think it’s a pretty solid and reliable Generator
How do you feel about buying used? I’ve got a chance to buy 2 ef2000is generators for $900 that are used, great cosmetic condition so I’d guess not used much, both run good. My second option is a new in box ef2000isv2 for $750
I don’t have any issues with Used I’ve bought used. some of my generators are used if they’ve been maintained and they run good that’s good I would jump on that deal 👍🏾
I just tested it...when my soft serve machine runs..the predator 9500 voltage drops from 120 to 101🤨...and there's my problem why it doesn't live up to the 9500 watts...not happy🥲