Generac 5789- 3250 Watt Portable Generator, CARB

bught one brand new the other day just in case the power does go out,,,,, it was pack fantastic in the box,,,, was very easy to assemble with very easy to understand instructions,,,, filled it with oil and gas,,, turned fuel on ,,, choked it and 2 pulls it fired right up,,,, love the smell of a new engine running,,,, ran like a champ with absolutley no surge of any kind,,,, i plugged in a small ceramic heater to test the generator and worked PERFECT,,,,, was WELL worth the money,,, i would recommend this generator without blinking an eye to anyone,,,, i have nothing bad to say about it,,, great job generac

We were caught in the recently flooding in WI and our electric service was out and did not have a restoration time from the utility company. We went to the store, purchased the generator and got it set up and running with no problems. Works great.

I bought this generator to keep my camper batteries charged and occasionally run the A/C. This generator will not fire up my 15K BTU AC unit without blowing the breaker on the generator. It's still a good generator for the price, but it's a little disappointing that it won't do everything I needed it to do. I think the problem is that both circuits are limited to 13.5 amps on the breaker. My AC unit runs about 12.5 amps, but will pull slightly more than 14 amps on startup. I should have researched this before the purchase. This generator is substantially louder than the much more expensive inversion generators I've seen so I wouldn't recommend using it in a busy campground. That said, it's much quieter than most non-inversion generators so if you're camping away from others, you can get away with running this generator throughout the day.

Bought last year. Starter cord beginning to fray, might be due to the location which is behind the frame/cage, which makes it mildly awkward for starting. Starts up easily, runs great. Use a heavy duty cord to run high power items like a worm drive or chop saws, other wise with a smaller dia. cord it may trip the breaker. At my cabin will run a 240v well, 110v shop vacuum & LED lights at the same time without any issues. Good on gas too.

It starts the first or second pull even in cold weather. It is fairly quiet for the size. It puts out the advertised power. The only feature missing in the 3 KW version is an idle-down with no load. It runs full blast when on and has good voltage regulation with varying loads.