Load Tests | Predator 9500 Inverter Generator | Does it perform?

hi friend i'm nick and welcome back to nick pixel tv if you're new here or if you've been here for a while or you've interacted with my channel in any way shape or form a like a comment a share subscribe i thank you 9 600 subscribers on our way to 10 000. it's truly a blessing to be able to create content for you guys today we're here with the predator 9500 watt generator again this thing has been pretty cool it's worked really well for me so far i've been putting some different tests on it i bought it for a couple reasons one for a home backup to provide pure sine wave power for my house two would probably be the miller multimatic 220 welder to be able to do some mobile welding throw the generator and the welder on the trailer and be able to take it and go do some mobile welding and then also you know power different things i have an rv that has its own built-in generator but it's nice to have a backup this thing is 257 pounds though so you're not gonna be just you know taking this thing and tossing it around but you guys have asked some crazy questions that are very similar to what my use cases were so i thought i could share some of those some of those things with you and we could put it to the test today so that's what we're going to do so first things first i did reach out to harbor freight i shot him an email and said hey if you want to answer any questions in the comments or if you have any things that you want to answer let me know and then also there were some questions you guys asked that i didn't want to speak on their behalf because i don't know and i just wanted to find out for you guys so a lot of people asked you know about locations and where they could pick these things up there's 1100 harbor freight brick and mortar locations nationwide with 85 of the population being within uh 30 minutes to an existing harbor freight store they also said that they have a large inventory of generators in stock and they do their best to conveniently supply customers with generator power when they need it without it being a special order item the next thing was parallel capabilities a lot of people asked about the parallel kits for this they're not out yet i believe that they are working on them but they are working on a 50 amp parallel kit for the 3500 series generator so a lot of people had those generators and pair those together or want to pair those together this would be a 50 amp parallel kit to combine two 3 500 watt generators and get 7 500 peak and 6 000 running watts of power i also had mentioned in my video about the toolless entry would be nice on the doors they said they'll take that into consideration as well as having a usb-c port on the front of that and looking at the the screen there to be able to tell you what wattage you're using that would be nice so they said also prepare yourselves and buy your generators ahead of time of course this way you have time to break it in change the oil test it out make sure all your critical stuff is going to run on it before the event of a storm or a mishap where you need need generator power and then it's too late to get one there were some comments on that too one of the big things i think people asked about was getting parts for this generator and getting parts for their generators so this is coming from harbor freight they inventory most common replacement parts for the majority of the tools in our distribution center i think that distribution center is in southern california these can be ordered by calling the customer service line and usually shipped the same or the next business day a lot of people also had questions and comments on the warranty and stuff now from my experience talking to other people i don't think harbor freight has put many people through the ropes on getting these things warrantied if you buy the warranty a lot of times they just say bring it in they exchange it for a new one so i think a lot of the protections and a lot of things they recommend is just to prevent misuse i guess would be the word and then people just taking advantage of the warranty but most people that i've talked to and this is just you know this is nothing with uh from their email most people that i've talked to have said good things about getting their their replacements if they need it so take that for what it's worth i just thought i'd answer some of those questions and they they jumped in to help out so i appreciate harbor freight for doing that just to help you guys out and that's what that's what we're all about here i did change oil yesterday i didn't do it at one hour or five hours i waited till 29.9 hours i ran conventional motor oil in it 10w30 i ran that for 29.9 hours pop this door off here and two eight millimeter fasteners pop this little door out so you can fit your socket in there 12 millimeter socket undo it there's a nice little drain pan that drains out the bottom you pull those out i'll show a couple clips of that and then once we got the oil out i didn't notice anything you know major in the oil the oil had a little bit of a sheen on it just like you would with any other motor you know brand new motor on your first oil change no metal flakes nothing crazy we did filter it so i have some clips of that we'll share with that but the oil change pretty straight forward with this filled it back up with oil i did go over to synthetic oil now and i think 30 hours should be good enough for the break-in period so 30 hours with the conventional motor oil and then i switched over to synthetic so we're all good with the oil change it's a little quick disclaimer when you're working with electrical make sure you know what you're doing or ask a friend or ask somebody that knows about electrical or a certified electrician to help you out i definitely recommend getting yourself a good clamp meter and a meter that you can just test your connections before you go live or test any adapters you're using i do have some adapters here that are third-party there's also some third-party accessories like gas caps and magnetic oil filters you may want oil filters magnetic dipsticks that have a magnetic tip on them that will filter out any metal particles that may or may not be in different motors now this one i haven't noticed anything so i didn't purchase anything for that yet but as far as adapters i have a bunch of different adapters here some different twist lock adapters and things you may or may not need depending on your use case we can talk about those and just be careful when you're working with your meters and your electrical so this unit's off i did separate my home from the shed right now so i have a load center over here i do have a separate ground run a lot of people asked if this unit is neutral and ground bonded and that it is and that does say it here neutral bonded to frame so you have to consider that and a lot of this stuff with electrical depends on how maybe your rv's wired how your home is wired how your you know every use case can be different so that's the things to consider and that's going to depend on what electrical adapters you're going to use so having a good meter is helpful to know what you're putting out there because on a on a 240 plug you can run 120 and just pull off a one leg if you want to and some rvs do that as well even if they have a 50 amp receptacle now the most you're gonna get out of this over here is 30 amps at 240 and then over here 30 amps at 120. so there's no 50 amp breakers on this so there's not going to be 50 amps coming out of this there's going to be a 30 max on this one a 30 max on this one 20 max on these ones okay so there is a switch on here that controls 120 volt only or you can switch it over to 240 and 120 but all of these things are powered at the same time so you can actually and there's a breaker over here for the 240 unit so basically people would ask me if you can run the 240 and the 120 at the same time yes you can on both the 30 amps so the overall power of this generator is 7 600 watts and 9 500 watts peak if you're it depends that peak is probably just for a spike it depends if you're running heaters or if you're running something that's like a constant consistent pull and a consistent load so we're going to try to max that out today but i did do some different wiring here to set you up and be able to test it and i do have some of these little kilowatt meters so we can test that out and yes my wires are exposed so that i could show you kind of this stuff so this should be fun so we're all hooked up right now we got three little portable heater units we got those connected so two of the units are on a 30 amp service right here the 30 amp at 120. one of the heaters is over here on the 20 amp service and then we have our 240 side to run our heater over here which runs into my load center now the load center is completely isolated from my house including the ground so this is a standalone load center we have a 30 amp breaker to run our heater we have a 40 amp for the welder the 40 amp will connect that up to test the welder here in a little bit but that's my heater on the wall there and that thing runs right around 4 700 watts i'm going to say give or take it's a 240 heater and it does um uh it's it's basically locked to the setting right now so we're not going to change any settings on that it's just a 240 heater it's 5000 watts rated it pulls about 4 700. so just know that that's off our 220 side and we're going to do some amp tests on this but first let's just get some ratings on what these heaters pull because with those two heaters going and the heater in the shed we should be pulling around 76 700 watts somewhere in that range and then we'll put it over the top with the other heater here so let's get her fired up [Applause] [Music] all right so here's our first heater right here that's on now we're 123 volts 12.41 amps and that's varying a little bit 12.36 1520 watts 60 hertz our second heater over here we have that cranked up the whole way i'm gonna plug this in 123 volt 12.36 amps 1520 watts 60 hertz then our last heater here we have that right now it's probably turned down and we'll turn that up the whole way 122.9 12.41 7.38 1520 watts 518 watts and that's at 60 hertz all right so let's turn on the heater first the 220 heater which is 5 000 watts with 240 volts and i think it pulls around 4700 watts give or take so we'll touch the amps on that and see what happens just know that these two legs will i'll show you both legs but it's only the number doesn't get added on 240 so [Music] watch right around 19.80 19.45 preparing all right so first here now to have until right now we got our two [Music] sides no problem okay [Music] right now we should be right around this generator's max capacity let's see how long we can let it ride oh right there that's where she bought so that was a lot of extra wattage being pulled out of this unit right now but just know that you can run both your 30 amp side and your 220 side at the same time along with your 20 amp circuits so now to clear that overload alarm you have to shut off the generator and restart it so we'll shut her down and once once you shut down we just wait a second restart it so there's our load test there let's take a look at the welder next so we'll just we're gonna disconnect that and we're gonna leave our 220 side in which is gonna run our welder and our heater so i'll turn the heater off and we'll uh we'll try to burn some wire here so as you can see here we're still wired in we're gonna flip this breaker on right which is for our welder plug we're gonna plug this thing in over here all right so let's see if the generator will run the heater which is about 20 amps and the multimatted 220 at about 20 amps or so uh heater's on full blast you hear the generator kick up let's see what she does here if we can overload it so what part so she definitely can't run the heater and the welder at the same time you pop the 30 amp breaker and that's just because of consistent loads so we'll we'll turn off the uh the heater will go back to the monitor watch your eyes right now i'm going to burn this hot just for heck of it that's awesome i don't think we're gonna have a problem with this guy [Music] turn it back down a tad i'll tell you what all right friends so i'm not sure what you guys think but i'm pretty happy as a clam right now welds look good a little bit undercut and stuff because i cranked it up just to uh to burn down into it and the steel was pretty cold so other than that pretty good welds we're looking good there we'll do some more tests we should burn into that one inch plate just for the heck of it but uh i haven't noticed any problems like i said it's gonna run this by itself without a problem it couldn't hold the heater and the welder at the same time which is expected it's not it's not made to do that and the heater's pulling a constant draw along with the welder so uh when you get under power that's gonna happen but i'm i'm pretty impressed with this generator so far we got clean power we'll do some more tests with in the future we're going to mess around with the rv i'll show you some adapters we'll talk about some things i threw the white board up we're just gonna have a little fun over here like i said not scientific don't bust my balls too bad but i appreciate you so much for watching and being part of my channel and we'll see in the next pixel thanks

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Length: 16min 24sec (984 seconds)

Published: Fri May 14 2021