works as advertised. I don't have anything else to say except, what's up with the minimum letter count? all I needed to say was it "works as advertised" and the system kicked me out for leaving to short of a review. Goofy, I didn't need to add all the rest of this except for the systems request.

Lucky me. When this unit arrived a storm blew thru knocling out my electricity for 3 days. Luckier me is the generator worked like a champ. I ran 2 large freezers plus several electronics without a hiccup. Very quiet, i love it. Look forward to the many uses i have planned for my blue little monster.

I bought this as a backup for when the power goes out at my hunting camp. It goes out there often. I have ran it at home for 6 hours and changed the oil. It is a nice generator and I would highly recommend it. Thanks Westinghouse for a great product!!

As a 66 year old single lady, I suffered through the glacier age in Texas last February without electricity. I began researching generators so I wouldn’t have to experience that again. Westinghouse consistently appeared in the top reviews. I purchased the iGen2500. I was able to set it up and run it to break it in without any problem. It is so quiet! I’m very pleased with my purchase! Bring on the next Ice Age!

I bought this last month and was waiting for the first oil change before I left a review. So here it is...WORTH EVERY PENNY SAVED! My uncle has the Honda 2200 and he let me borrow it to camp and it would last about 7.5 hours with my setup and with it being completely filled to the top. I did my research and bought the Westinghouse iGen2500 for the extra wattage and front display(of course). With my Westinghouse iGen2500 and the same exact load, it will run for over 9 hours! I cannot sleep that long so if I fill it up before I go to sleep, there is absolutely no worry about running out of gas. I will be buying another one to run parallel on my entire house during hurricane outages.

I have just received my generator but everything seems to be well made. Hopefully it will serve me well. I like the features other than you have to unscrew 2 screws and pop the cover off to check the oil. I could see getting lazy about checking the oil.

When the unit arrived, I tested the it on my circular saw which draws 15amps. And it had no problem starting the saw. I was impress how quiet the generator is and that it could crank out 2500 watts and still be the size of a 50# briefcase. Also it is very quiet, where you could talk to someone standing right next to it when it is under full load.

I purchased this as an emergency generator in case of a power failure. I test ran it with a light load (fan) for two hours and it worked perfect. I gave it four stars ONLY because the bonus program does not offer the generator cover any longer, so I was stuck with the power strip. The generator itself would be 5 stars.

Short and sweet! I did A LOT of research and you should too. Reviews indicated units arrived with broken spark plugs, bought a new one before my unit arrived. When it did arrive, yep spark plug was broken. Reviews also said to use a magnetic oil filler plug and break unit in properly. I did and glad I did. Lot of garbage in the first oil change at 1 hour. Now for the good, reviews suggested putting upper cylinder oil in cylinder without spark plug and pulling it slowing to lubricate the cylinder prior to starting. I did this with 2 tablespoons of Lucas oil, installed new plug and the dang thing started first pull. Smoked due to the oil but cleared up in minutes and off we go. Runs quiet and YAHOO, mine came with an hour meter. Wish I had known that before I installed the hour meter. It says nothing about it in the owners manual but the last item listed under the digital display is LIFE TIME RUN HOURS!. Time will tell but I will update if there is a need.

Pros: - Oil & funnel included - Started for first time on first pull - Light (for me at least) - LCD readout is useful - Paralleling function works Cons: - A phillips-head screwdriver is needed to take the side off (no big deal really) This little devil turned out to be everything that I had expected and hoped for. The box arrived somewhat damaged, but I went ahead and opened it anyway, and the generator was just fine. There's a small container of oil and a funnel that come in the box. It took almost no effort to fill the oil reservoir; just pop the cover off and fill it up. My generator took the whole jug of the provided oil. I did not add any additional oil. Before the first start, I filled the gas tank about halfway with ethanol free gas from the local Bucees. I choked the engine, and it started on the first pull. After about 5, maybe 10 seconds, it became clear that it no longer needed the choke, so I dialed it down to the "Run" position and the generator ran just fine. The parallel cable works very well. Another guy at the office bought the same generator and the parallel cable, so we tested it out with a series of shop fans and a portable A/C unit. The load balancing appears to work well (18% & 26% with fans; 80% & 82% with A/C and fans). 10/10 would recommend!