Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45935 in Home Improvement
• Brand: PowerMax
• Model: XP3500

Customer Reviews

PowerMax 3500 Generator
I just received this generator and am very impressed with the build quality. Excellent price and with free shipping it's the best deal I've found. Shipped from MaxTool and came in the day they said it would. Started with the first pull and runs so much quieter than my old one. Only time will tell if it holds up well but as I mentioned the build quality is there so I expect it will do nicely for my purposes as an emergency generator and occasional use with my travel trailer. Manual and parts book easy to read. Very nice features included on this unit.

Understanding the watt power for using this product
I live in hurricane alley at the foot of the Gulf of Mexico. After suffering through Katrina and after carefully studying my minimum needs for emergency power I bought this product. I am very happy with it.

I have installed a small manual transfer switch which can use six of my main box breakers. My fridge runs at 600 watts but the start up surge is 1800 watts. I will start this up first before adding the load of my two window A/C units, which both run at 650 watts and have a very little need for extra wattage start up surge.

The necessary run surge as compared to the 3X start up surge on some appliances, was, at first, hard for me to understand. But is a vital piece of knowledge before knowing how powerful a generator to buy.

This unit cannot be expected to run a 2000 watt appliance that has a 6000 watt surge need. But if you stagger your appliance's on line startups, this unit can fit your needs, and can run for 3-4 hours per gallon of gas at 50% load. Larger, more powerful generators are great IF purchasing emergency gasoline is not a problem.

great product
this generator was all they said it was very nice for the price. i took more then a week to get here but that wasnt to bad . it was worth it. will do buisness with them again 5 stars