Quick review of the Duromax XP13000HX , XP13000EH Generators. Have owned this Generator for 2 years... it has pros and cons. This is a short review explaining my experience - hopefully you find it helpful as well.
My father-in-law gifted my wife and I with this generator today to prepare for hurricane season at our house. Bought a 30foot 50amp cable and had an electrician install a 30/50amp outlet on the outside of my house with a transfer switch in the breaker panel in the garage. My father-in-law has the same generator and setup at his house and after Ian it was nice to go sit inside the A/C. Generator was on sale at Home Depot, $1600, the cable was $150 and the electrician installation was $975. Well worth the money if you ask me.
Watch these vids on people competing to make the quietest gen shed. If you need to operate your generator there are neighbors who will be running their generator at the same time, don’t care how loud it is just keep me warm!
I fell for the whole generator shed bs, and wasted a bunch of money. In the end, you just want power. No one cares about noise when the power is out. Just went 36 hours without power here in Houston last week. Some people had Briggs, some people had standbys. We had our Honda ES6500, which runs like a sewing machine. I will admit, I would love to be able to run the larger of our two ac units, but tossing my Honda for a Duromax probably isnt going to happen.
If you don’t know what splash oiling means, you probably don’t know that synthetic oil that you showed is not meant for any generator until it has had a chance to (break in) meaning seating the rings on the piston to the cylinder walls! My DuroMax is 6 years old and doesn’t use a drop of oil! Ditch the synthetic, put petroleum based oil in it, run it a few times under load for a few hours, if you haven’t ruined the engine you could notice a decrease in oil consumption!!!!
Curious what fuel consumption is like. I just bought the tri-fuel 13000 it has not arrived yet and I intend to plumb and connect to our natural gas. I want to do avoid using regular gasoline because I guess it can come up the carburetor. Propane is my preferred fuel I don't know consumption rate. Any thoughts?
Duromax on their website stat that this thing will run for 17 hours at 25% load 8.5 hours at 50% load... I my use and testing ...I'll believe that as I typically run this thing from 11-15 hours in my use before I need to refill with gas... all things said, that is not bad... fill up in morning, fill up at night for a power outage.
Used one during a week without power. We did about 8 hours a fill up alternating between AC and microwave. At night, it went to about 9 - 10 hours with minimal load. Cooking dinner was done on propane griddle so I think that helped. How do you like the cover? I bought a GenTent, but I a looking at purchasing that style now.
cover is good, makes filling it up with gas a bit trickier - but overall good especially when its raining / snowing. Thanks for sharing and commenting... overall it's been a great generator.
Thanks for the video. Can I ask where did you get the cover from for your generator? Have you ever ran your generator in the rain with that cover on it? Thanks again.
yes for sure ran in rain (and snow) with cover on. no issues. just have to ensure it can breath... here is a link to the cover www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0817GWV8C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
The specifications for the width seem to be a bit smaller than the specifications on the website, you had no issues with the cover fitting? Will be ordering if you recommend 😊
My father-in-law gifted my wife and I with this generator today to prepare for hurricane season at our house. Bought a 30foot 50amp cable and had an electrician install a 30/50amp outlet on the outside of my house with a transfer switch in the breaker panel in the garage. My father-in-law has the same generator and setup at his house and after Ian it was nice to go sit inside the A/C. Generator was on sale at Home Depot, $1600, the cable was $150 and the electrician installation was $975. Well worth the money if you ask me.
I wish people would do a wave form analysis with these things.
Thanks for the video and explanation. Very helpful in choosing a generator.
thanks so much for watching !
Watch these vids on people competing to make the quietest gen shed. If you need to operate your generator there are neighbors who will be running their generator at the same time, don’t care how loud it is just keep me warm!
I fell for the whole generator shed bs, and wasted a bunch of money. In the end, you just want power. No one cares about noise when the power is out. Just went 36 hours without power here in Houston last week. Some people had Briggs, some people had standbys. We had our Honda ES6500, which runs like a sewing machine. I will admit, I would love to be able to run the larger of our two ac units, but tossing my Honda for a Duromax probably isnt going to happen.
Good review. Reviewing options myself as we have also lost power quite a bit these past few years.
thanks for checking it out!
If you don’t know what splash oiling means, you probably don’t know that synthetic oil that you showed is not meant for any generator until it has had a chance to (break in) meaning seating the rings on the piston to the cylinder walls! My DuroMax is 6 years old and doesn’t use a drop of oil! Ditch the synthetic, put petroleum based oil in it, run it a few times under load for a few hours, if you haven’t ruined the engine you could notice a decrease in oil consumption!!!!
What oil to break in ?
Curious what fuel consumption is like. I just bought the tri-fuel 13000 it has not arrived yet and I intend to plumb and connect to our natural gas. I want to do avoid using regular gasoline because I guess it can come up the carburetor. Propane is my preferred fuel I don't know consumption rate. Any thoughts?
Duromax on their website stat that this thing will run for 17 hours at 25% load 8.5 hours at 50% load... I my use and testing ...I'll believe that as I typically run this thing from 11-15 hours in my use before I need to refill with gas... all things said, that is not bad... fill up in morning, fill up at night for a power outage.
Used one during a week without power. We did about 8 hours a fill up alternating between AC and microwave. At night, it went to about 9 - 10 hours with minimal load. Cooking dinner was done on propane griddle so I think that helped. How do you like the cover? I bought a GenTent, but I a looking at purchasing that style now.
cover is good, makes filling it up with gas a bit trickier - but overall good especially when its raining / snowing. Thanks for sharing and commenting... overall it's been a great generator.
@@willsfrantz Thanks for the reply. And thanks for the great video.
Thanks for the video. Can I ask where did you get the cover from for your generator? Have you ever ran your generator in the rain with that cover on it? Thanks again.
yes for sure ran in rain (and snow) with cover on. no issues. just have to ensure it can breath... here is a link to the cover www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0817GWV8C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
@@willsfrantz Thank you. I will be ordering one soon. 👍
The specifications for the width seem to be a bit smaller than the specifications on the website, you had no issues with the cover fitting? Will be ordering if you recommend 😊
@@melissabarraza3785 no issues with cover fitting
Like others, I wondered about both fuel consumption and how well the unit runs /starts on propane.
Haven't used it on propane. Runs great overall on gas just gulps through it fairly quickly.
Start on gas first warm it up a little turn off the gas valve, let the carb run out of gas , it will start much easier then on propane!!!
What about the THD output
12% according to generator bible website
Dirty Power 12% THD. Better For A Construction Site.