But I think you're just bullshitting

I purchased the 100520 model in May after the derecho wind here in Houston on Amazon. Was marked down to 800.00. I just checked them Friday after Beryl, and it was 700.00. I got it to replace my 15 year old champion. Still fires on fist pull, but needs oil topped off every 2 tanks now.

Not correct..... 30 A ....120V/240V 4-prong outlet (L14-30R).

@@TheWilferch you are correct. I just looked at mine.

@@BADD1ONE ...thanks for taking this correction the right way...afterall.. lot's of folks read comments, and we like to be accurate......cheers !!!

@@TheWilferch the 14r 50 had me confused. I will say this. My 8500 drinks propane.

@@BADD1ONE ..well...at least you have gasoline / propane option....lots of ud don't. Have a great day.

Glad to help

Door wont baffle much. In person and compared to a 3750 watt non inverter its a world of difference at 30 feet.

Good luck! A dirty Job , but not that mechanically hard to solve. Best Wishes.

Can be a learning curse. I used in later days, a 1/4 drive ratchet and an extension about 8 inches, and a "wobble socket". That will get you in there and give you the room. ( a light and a mirror can be a big help). Do what you did, taking a break, always helps me not "break" something.

Im not a plumber, but I can tell when something is plumb. But, Yeah if you wanna help me and educate me, I am receptive.

the ai power at costco at 999 is a fair deal this week (i got the champion tsd 1st time) but from reading amazon, youtube (even some comments on gavins channel) and bbb communication for an issue isn't positive..... It would be interesting to read one first hand account of warranty handling before dropping a grand, looks like any other rebanded chinese gen. The champion is china also but does seem to be engineered by champion as nothing else looks like it. But yeah you're right feature wise it can't compete at original price...i would hope the difference in original is made up by support, long term parts,etc. Ai power good luck 12 months from now i bet.

@@swade3485 I have a smaller champion that is 22 years old or so..... From when it was a brand new company.. It was recommended on RV forums back then. Only 68 db, had rv plug. Champions story was it was a Chinese generator, but they oversaw it closely and actually had quality control. I can say mine's been a good generator. With the smorgasbord of models they have today I don't think that's entirely the same. I have read some reports of some problematic models. I would hope they're still a cut above many of the Chinese imports though. But it's clear now champion produces or maybe I should say imports generator specifically to retailer specifications. As well as some models only for specific retailers too. So they are not out there trying to produce the best generators they can... they're actually letting their customers dictate price and specifications to them.... And then they go to the Chinese company and tell them give us something to meet this.... After the first few hours with my new champion 8,500/7000 inverter..... Well it seems okay. I think it was a good deal for what I paid for it.$1260 +tax, shipping. I would not pay 2300 + tax for it. Unfortunately the fuel fill is awful. They put a small ~ 1" strainer basket in it, with a piece of red plastic to let you gauge your maximum fuel level on. You cannot fill it with that little basket there. You need a big strainer fuel fill for a generator because the only way to fuel it is to turn a five gallon fuel can upside down..... Rest it on the fill spout to support the weight......then let it rip...... If you do that with their little' strainer in there you've got fuel going everywhere. It splashes out runs all over the generator. The problem is with the little strainer you have a ledge that is around the edge of the strainer and if you rest the weight of the fuel can on the lip most of your fuel is pouring down onto that ledge..... That ledge is not deep enough to keep it from splashing out. You can't hold a 30 lb fuel can very long and just slowly tip a small flow of fuel out a spout. Not to mention the new EPA fuel cans don't allow for that anyway. It's All or nothing on flow. Absolutely horrible piece of crap Chinese design... Again this is something that should be so simple that they used to have right, that's absolutely horrible. There is no American design going into the generator.. they are only obviously buying something from a piece of crap Chinese company and slapping labels on it. The Chinese company will cut corners everywhere you allow them to, or where there is no specification. I have no doubt I'm going to be grinding the fill hole in the top of my tank larger one day in order to hang a larger fuel filter basket in there. The filter basket isn't needed so much for the fuel as it is for debris that's on the outside of fuel cans and such. Particularly the bottom as they've been sitting on the ground. The generator has a big cap and a big wide well ... Then they put this little one inch-ish restrictive fuel filter basket at the bottom of it... With a red plastic cross piece covering half of it. Absurd. But, their goal was to make sure that nobody overfilled it....... So is likely intentional.... You have to fill slowly and you have something that tells you when STOP. Why? Lawyers no doubt. Stupid people overfilling their generators. There does appear to be substantial free space in the top of the tank above this stop level however..... I mean like an inch.... I'm curious now what the total volume of the tank is and if it's possible to modify it to hold a bit more...... The other thing I'm going to do immediately is install a switch to ground and unground the neutral. To plug the generator into the house it needs a floating neutral., But to use it as a standalone it needs bonded for GFCI receptacles. As far as noise well I measured it with my phone which seems to be respectively accurate. It says 61 DB at 23 ft just like their specification in eco mode. Not in eco mode it says about 64 to 65 with no load. With a load of 3500 watt I got about 69-70 DB at 23 ft. Up close next to the generator the sound level is about 73 to 75 unloaded. This is about what I expected. My smaller 3500 champion synchronous generator that is 68 at 23 ft is about 85 standing right next to it. So this is noticeably quieter. But not quite what I would call truly quiet. However the noise is a bit less objectionable than some other generators. Maybe lower toned. For "quiet" inverter generator this size, 420cc engine it is acceptably quiet i think. Much more quiet than a conventional generator or an open frame inverter. But it's middle of the pack. It's going to be louder than the power horse or Honda, which are heavier. When you look at the weight of the champion open frame model that's also 8,500/7,000 it's about 150 lb... So basically you've got about 60 lb of material in this inverter generator that is going towards sound reduction. The Honda and power horse are heavier...246 and 292 lbs..... so they probably have more material going towards sound deadening as well and they are marginally quieter. With the heaviest power horse being the quietest.. go figure. It is barely acceptable to move around at 211 lb. I would not want to be moving around a heavier one. So I think Champion compromised here.....and probably well. It came strapped and shrink-wrapped to a wooden pallet. I picked it up from the freight company instead of waiting a week for them to deliver it. I was able to get it out of my truck bed by myself by sliding the pallet down a four wheeler ramp. The shipping Bill said 244 lb. Then I use a hand truck (dolly) to pick up the big generator box and wheel it to the back of my house. Where I proceeded to cut the box apart to unpack it. It would have been nice if the top of the box had lifted off the bottom after slicing some tape, and then the bottom folded down.... But as it is it's a one piece box all stapled together and you just got to cut it all apart. Because nobody's lifting the generator out of the top of the open box.... So far I think it was good deal. The plastic Wheels seem flimsy but they all have plastic Wheels today to be light. At least the champions at 9" are big enough to actually roll over grass, gravel and stuff. You can look at a lot of the larger generators and see tiny Wheels which would only roll on Pavement. Again, that's ridiculous. But it's cheap. And people in China don't have land and hunting camps . They don't go tailgating at football games and have to roll generators across grass fields used for parking lots....so they don't understand the uses for generators really.......

@@duskyman1 i use those tera pumps (and knock offs with generators 20ish bucks last a few years, i store about 30 gallons for hurricane. yeah box and gen are heavy for sure , and thought same about the wheels.

@@swade3485 I posted a quick review I did here....kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4O1YmZ3ZpZrmpo

@@duskyman1 This is the longest comment in the entire city.

Always down to budget and needs. Ill make a longer on this week for you. Stil have 4 more hours of break in recommended (5 hour per manufacturer).

@@wiley0714 thanks! The other Champion in the same power range is more noisy. I am a bit concerned about noise (for neighbors and for ourselves), but I'm trying to figure out if it is worth the extra money or not. Maybe I could build an enclosure for the noisy one, but it is an extra cost and fuss. Also I would like to know if it this is easy to service (oil change, battery, etc). And if the extra features are actually useful or not worth the extra money.

@@gjkop3212 that's the thing, you're going to spend $500 trying to make a worthless enclosure to quiet it down.......74 is LOUD. Can you quiet it down significantly, ...yes. but you will spend a lot of money to do so, several hundred dollars just on 3" rockwool insulation. Without the insulation you're not going to do much. You will also need a forced air intake to your enclosure which means a fan that is reliable to run off the generator. If the enclosure is portable then you need to be able to store it somewhere as well. In the long run you will be happier with a quieter generator from the start.... And it will have a better resale... Imo. Now the worst thing about this generator, is you can only get 4800 watts when you have it in 120 volt.... And they are both on opposite sides... So those can't be paralleled with a simple parallel connection to a 30 amp RV plug . only get 30 amps from one side of it. It should be capable of producing 58 amps at 120 volt but there's no way to get it because the plugs are only rated for 20 on the front and they have 20 amp breakers. It should have come with 120 volt 50 amp plug. Like the power horse 7500, which is quieter It doesn't look like there is a circuit breaker in the diagram for the 240 volt/30 amp plug. So possibly you can get about 50 amp by combining one side of the 240 volt plug with the 20 amp receptacle that's also connected on that side of it..... But it's really effed up .

Oddly, i cant find it on the Tractor supply website. Sold out? Maybe...

Lowes has them for sale

Was listed at Tractor Supply for 1399.00 and HD for like 2300! Tractor supply listed it at 10% off so like 1260.00 but, they get ya as shipping is not free. So add 225.00 and tax. Total was <1600.00 with tax, but still less than the 2300 with free shipping....

@@wiley0714 ok thanks I was going to order one but they no longer have

I ended up getting the duromax 9000

@@wiley0714 I think tractor supply Mis- priced it..... Obviously not it's on sale again for Black Friday....... And they're gone again. It will be seen TSC get some back in stock and sell them at $1,400 again. At $1600 delivered including tax and 200 shipping I think it's a screaming deal compared to the other 7,000 watt generators out there. Those will run you 2200 to 2,500. They have a few more features like a better display that shows you power output and maybe remote start and maybe more plugs.... But the low price TSC is selling them for makes up for any shortcomings. The champion is also lighter At 211 lb r than the honda (246), the power horse (292) the gen max (245), etc. Edit: tsc is sold out again. It will be interesting to see if they get more of these and sell them at $1,400 again. I got one at $1259 so I'm happy. More or less $1,000 off

TSC still hasn't sold any more of these since before Christmas so I really think they confused the price on these with another model. Nobody else has tried to sell it for $1,000 less than full price. Usually the manufacturer controls that price and there are stipulations on when you can sell it for less. Often that only occurs when you put things on clearance and have discontinued carrying the whole mfg line.

I doubt it, since it is LEGAL to ride the bike there, and the bike is registered and insured.

Would you like to know why the motorcycle would be confiscated🤔

Because I dont feel i have anything useful to tell anyone in life, so I mumble, mostly to myself.