Predator 9000 generator full home test and review

hey everybody welcome back to the channel today we're going to be checking out this predator 9000 generator from harbor freight it should be called the 7250 generator because 9000 is only the starting ones not the running watch the running watch is really what keeps your house going not so much the starting i'm using this because i'm replacing a home light with a subaru engine generator it's a five 5000 running and the reason why is it's not really powering my house very well i have a 2800 square foot home with a well pump a three-quarter horsepower well pump i have a five zone uh propane forced hot water boiler so it has a and these are circulating uh pumps not just the valve so it takes a little bit more power have a large refrigerator and upright freezer as well i also have six kids so when we lose power we're drawing a lot of power from these generators so i figured it was time to get a bigger one to see how this can run my house i'm fully expecting that this is going to run my house without an issue but in this video you're going to find out how i hook this up to my home is i have a typical generator whip plug-in that goes to the back of my house i run a 30-foot whip uh at the end of my house i roll this outside plug it in and i have an interlock breaker that goes into my panel to 150 amp panel i don't have a 200 i know and uh and that's how it's going to work the plan is to turn everything on in the house after i get this hooked up i turn on the boiler all the zones run the well pump at the same time i'm going to set the camera up outside so you can see once i do that how when this loads up how it sounds what it is and maybe that will help you in your decision making if you're in the market for a generator this is a very popular generator it has great ratings across the board that's why i bought it and plus it's uh i think 650 to 700 dollars and for a generator this size you can't beat it at all so for under a thousand dollars you can hook up your entire house to a generator including the wiring and everything else and it's really not that hard to do the panel's already off so just to let you know first uh you have to turn off your panel before you even start your generator make sure that's off you do not want to back feed the grid that is a really bad thing to do then once your panel is off uh keep all of your breakers off don't switch them over yet you can go ahead and plug in your whip outside and into your generators you're not doing that when it's live you turn on your generator all right so let's start the generator up this is the first time i'm ever starting it all right so i've got the gas on uh all right got the choke on you gotta turn on the start button so that would help right here and then this is where we're at right now sorry for the shaky video so this is already off that's the off position this is the on position as you can see when it's in the on position you cannot turn on this breaker so now and plus this is actually a really good point too before you put power to the buses in this panel you make sure that all of your breakers are off and then you stage them on once you have your generator energizing it that way you don't slug the generator too much again sorry for the crappy lighting okay so it's on so all we have to do now is let's turn on actually filling up the moment as you can see on the boiler i have every zone on uh you know everything seems stable see pressure's dropping that's good and it's keeping up typically with the pump running it'll keep up to 45 psi so you have all the lights on in here so the generator as you can see there's no way i can actually get this to go back on with this here it it just will not engage because this breaker is on so with that comes down now we can actually put it back on but again you need to turn all these back off pull this one in always stand to the side of your panel never directly in front of it just in case something goes wrong you don't want to be in the blast zone you want to stand to the side of it so here we go one two three okay now we'll start to stage all these back on and then plus as you can note you cannot turn this on all right everybody so there you have it i loaded up this generator as much as i could with the house i turned everything on like i said i have a well pump i have a five zone boiler i have a large refrigerator an upright freezer everything was running uh this did when it hit a load when it when it actually loaded up you could hear it bog just a little bit but this is the first time i've ever ran this generator i started with the first pull and that's crazy to me i can't believe it actually started with the first pull worst case scenario actually we lose power i'm in new england and we're in the middle of winter so we get a lot of snow it gets really cold so you have to have power for your heat you have to have a backup a wood stove other types of heat sources as well a fireplace so with that being said uh this generator performed as i expected i wanted it to do well i wanted to carry the load of the house without any issues um so you know i think i'm prepared for the next power outage that we may have uh or you know what have you um you know i feel confident in running this now so you know a couple things about it does say it has 13 hours of run time uh that's at 50 percent though so and you could if you fully load this thing up and it runs i mean you you probably get eight hours out of it seven hours something like that i don't see people really running this at full capacity and if you do it's going to be screaming at you it's going to be telling you hey i'm overloaded but i hope somebody got some useful information out of this demonstration of this generator to be able to see it perform i hope it helps someone so please like and subscribe to my channel and please share the video as well thanks everybody and we'll see you in the next video

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Length: 8min 9sec (489 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 09 2021