Champion 100520 7000W/8750W Open Frame Hybrid Electric Start Inverter Generator New

Generator arrived quickly and works perfectly

Champion Quality

Factory Pure was great to deal with. Generator arrived quickly and works perfectly. Great experience.

Purchased with a pre-installed tri-fuel kit.

Shipping was fine. I chose to pick up from the freight shipping location rather than home delivery.

Generator was well packaged, arrived in good condition.

Started up fine with propane. Good instructions. I don't have plans for running it with natural gas.

Factory pure should consider selling or including a magnetic dipstick for all generators. I purchased one separately to catch ferrous shavings in the oil.

I haven't put a load on it yet since I intend to break it in over a couple months while doing the monthly test runs.

I had a little disappointment when I picked up the first unit. I had it delivered to the local shipping carrier dock and picked it up on a day that was raining a storm closing in. I did not stop to unpackage the unit at the platform because of the rain. When I got home I found the unit's frame was bent and the front panel cracked. I called FactoryPure and John was very helpful. He contacted Champion and they sent one out right away and I literally dropped mine off and picked the new one up a few days later. I inspected it at the carrier facility and all looked good. I bought the model with the tri fuel adapter as I intend to run this as a backup generator at a cabin on propane. My neighbor has a different brand of generator and he cannot get his to start on propane but instead must start it on gasoline and switch over when running. Not this Champion unit. On the very first trial I gave it 4 priming pumps on the regulator, hit the electric start and it fired up in less than half a second. I just couldn't believe it. I let it run a few min, turned it off and it started up after a couple seconds without priming. I then ran it with various loads, turned it off, let it sit for a while, primed it and each time started in 2 seconds or less. I have never had a generator, or any small gasoline engine for that mater start this easily. I am a big Honda fan and love their engines but even one of my Honda engine based machines does not start as quick as this motor. I love the economy mode as the generator kicks and spools up from idle perfectly when a load is placed, then quiets back down when load is stopped. Now I have only played around with it for a couple days now but so far it is love at first sight. It is more quiet than I expected. On my iPhone App it measures 73 dB at 20 feet and 50 dB at 30 feet. I live out in the country and even though I have a neighbor not too far away on one side, the sound level is not enough to cause any concern. I can always toss them a line to keep their fridge running if need be...