The Harbor Freight Predator Inverter Generators are flying off the shelves (THIS IS WHY)

these power inverter generators are probably one of the most popular on the market today they're from Harbor Freight and I'll tell you what they're flying off the shelves they can't hold on to them everybody's buying them but for what reason what makes these things so good well people were asking me about them so I drove up to the harbor freight test and I grabbed one and I promise you this my friend that just hit the Subscribe button everything you want and need to know about the Predator super quiet inverter 9500 you're going to learn from this video today all right now you can jump through chapters and I'm gonna put in this video but let's start it out with putting this thing together I literally just got it out of the box what you got to do is you got to put your oil in it so you're gonna take those screws out on the side panel very simple to do now you only really need to remove that smaller door but we're going to remove the whole side panel so you can see on the inside of this thing and look at the soundproofing that goes into this machine right here on so the same wait until you hear this thing running don't worry we're going to show you all now the only thing I will say that there's the welding it's a little spotty on the exhaust but it'll hold just fine now they're going to give you this oil funnel and and I would use this right here not exactly Pennzoil but 10w30 is what goes into it I would use the synthetic oil this is like 11 crap I can't believe how expensive oil is but they're going to give you that funnel really simple to do and you just put in one quart double check it make sure you have enough oil however the one thing I guarantee you're here for is how do you hook up the bat right now the instruction book does not even show you how to do this or how to get to it so on the other side you got to take off the other panel and then you hook up your positives and your negatives that's the Bat Ray right there it comes with it so don't worry about it you just hook it up very simple to do very simple to do and you also got soundproofing on the other panel but I want to start this up for the first time now that we got it set up and this has never been started before so let's let's try it that was the first time this has ever started straight out of the box that my friends it's real nice like so a few months ago in March we had a storm which led to a pretty nasty blackout when I mean a pretty nasty blackout I mean for Ohio we were like three days without any power no electricity and let me tell you my friends during that event I may have made a couple people upset with me had a few Choice words given to me this is one of the first tools I've ever brought to this channel it's a dirty hand tools power generator and I don't even think they're in business anymore I looked on their website they used to sell them at Home Depot they used to sell them at Lowe's they're just gone but for five years this generator right here has worked very well the problem is it's Extremely Loud and it doesn't have an inverter and when I first got this thing I was like oh this thing is cool it looks really nice and now to me it just looks prehistoric fast four or five six years and this is where we're at right now and this monster this beauty I cannot wait to show you so if you're working off site you're working off grid you're living off grid your power goes out wait until you see this power generator slash inverter and I'll explain to you what that is I'm gonna show you how real nice like this is and the difference between the Predator generator that you're going to find at Harbor Freight for a very good price mind you compare it to well the dinosaur so just looking at these two they're like light years apart when it comes to not only technology but just overall build quality and 9 all right so real quick let's do a comparison as Will Smith would say the new hotness compared to the old and Boston 5500 running Watts 6500 max watts 7 600 running Watts 9 500 max watts and the only real reason I'm giving any comparison to this and this because this is a smaller motor so you would think that it should be a little more quiet than the larger motor however this is one of the reasons why I might have gotten some Choice words from the neighbors all right let's see if I can get this thing started you see my friends the gods weren't happy with me that day I really wanted to show you a comparison between this and the other one of my dedication wow it was strong it was strong I wanted to get this thing started for you so I pulled and I pulled and I pulled and I pulled this thing wouldn't start but I gotta be honest with you there was no hard ham way I was gonna give up on my subscriber base I was gonna get this thing started no matter how many pulls it took you see my friends I've been trying for two hours to start this carburetor cleaner starter fluid I put a brand new spark plug in however if I would have just come over push the on button the hard ham thing probably would have started on the first pool better start a hard time there's a reason why I wanted to start this thing up for I want to hear a soccer pass between this a small motor compared to that I don't even know you can hear me right now so right now we're standing about six feet away and we're fluctuating we're all shut up you'll see yourself all right I think it's loud and noisy and well now I want you here to predator let me move back over here you can hear how what this freaking thing is all right so now I'm going to let you hear a sound comparison without me talking back and forth all right so now we're doing a sound meter test we're using a phone app these aren't going to hold up in court or anything but they're pretty close so let's just try it out I'm 12 feet away exactly all right let's shut this one down so obnoxious now we're going to come over we're going to start the Predator test [Music] all right check this out so that was 12 feet away if you move this thing further away from the house you're not even going to hear it this is just a loud obnoxious it's a higher pitch it's just it's just so bad but before I show you all the other functions let me show you one feature that you need to see you need to see this so for some reason every single year you hear about people throwing their generators in their houses and garages and shutting the doors why are you doing that you'll do that do that so fine let's turn this on in the shop right here even though you should never do that let's do it turn it on and uh let's shut the door and uh now we wait a few minutes how you doing all right all right so we have this thing in here for about 30 seconds and there's no air circulation there's no ventilation no windows open the door is closed that environment right there is not real nice see what happens is you you're combusting you're combusting that gasoline you're burning and all the noxious fumes the carbon monoxide is going out in the atmosphere and what happens that that removes the oxygen in the atmosphere and then you can't breathe but luckily there's a safety mechanism on this thing right here so even if you don't remember you just don't know for some reason in this day and age you can't run a gasoline-powered item in your home or your garage with no ventilation or for any reason well this is going to save you now I got this thing running on the highest setting and I'll talk about that here in a little bit so this is a full bore you're running like 120 240 whatever you're doing this thing's going full every all the power we can put out is putting out right now it's putting that that noxious fumage in the air inch been about one minute one minute sure it's nice out today so uh what you got planned for today cooking anything barbecue maybe swimming now FYI the size of this storage shed shop whatever you want to call it is a 12 by 20. so it's pretty large so if you were to put this in a smaller area this is going to happen a lot quicker I can smell the fumes coming out of that door over there it's not real nice like now right about now before this thing does what it's going to do you're going to get a yellow light that's flashing it's telling you I'm picking up carbon monoxide however once it starts getting to an area where it's not safe anymore nobody in that shed what happened let's open this up and see what it did here oh that stinks ugh hold my breath all right let me show you what this did all right you see the red light flashing right there that light right there just saved your life now that'll stay on for about five ten minutes but when you come downstairs in your living room and you say to yourself why did my generator shut off in my living room when you come over here and you read this it says flashing red light carbon monoxide dangerous levels were detected it shut this thing down automatically all right let's shut this down I just want to show you again how gentle that is when it shuts down compared to that all right so uh let's take a look at the control area right here so very simple this is your choke you're going to push that down you're going to come over you're gonna push that button and it's going to turn it on and then turn it to run I'll rev up it'll shut down all right let's talk about this button right here this is an ESC throttle and if you don't need to run this thing full bore if you're not welding on it running compressors on it you just want to run some lights your heating pads whatever then you're going to keep that on that's going to keep your DBS down however if I put this on high it's going to bring those DBS up a little bit it's running full power this right here you got 120 only but you can go to 120 240 and now you're running everything on this thing so if you're on this mode here I would just use the on and then if you're going like full bore you need everything the max output put this to off over here you can hook up different generators or plug more of these generators in so if you're off site you're off grid in your construction site you need more power more power you want you can plug more in and run these in a line you got a DC 12 volt right there you got an AC 120 30 amp you got two outlets here at 120 20 amp two outlets here same thing and over here you got your 240 30 amp so that my friends that's that's real nice like I don't know a lot of people that would do this but I guess you could you know you charge your your phone up or whatever well you got your USBS 5 volt right there this is a one amp this is a 2.1 amp so the bottom is going to charge faster than the top got your ground right there you got three different alarms you got an output indicator you got an overload alarm and then you got a low oil alarm so that's going to protect you from blowing this thing up you also got your circuit breakers right here turn that on 30 amp slip that back off so if you need to reset for some reason you just flip that off put that back on and you got your ground right there 30 amp circuit breaker 20 amp 20 amp and then right here you got a 9 amp now last month these things went on sale for two thousand dollars a unit which is absolutely insane for what you're getting I believe right now they're up to twenty five hundred dollars again but they're going to go back on sale again however 2500 still compared to a Honda when I compare this to a Honda let me explain something to you these motors from this and the Honda they might not be 100 but they're almost exactly the same engines they're probably made the exact same facility it's like every other company does now there's a couple other reasons why this is so much better than your regular generator let me explain to you this is a generator inverter I'm literally standing right next to the exhaust that's not that's not real nice like I gotta move I'm gonna try to make this as easy as possible what's the difference between a regular generator and your inverter generators well these run off of an alternator it's a regular generator runs off an alternator and well so does that however this is basically transforming the gas that you're burning into AC power but it's not very consistent AC power so if you plug in a light with this you might see when this thing starts revving it's just constant all the time trying to give you full max power and sometimes you might see surges you might see your light getting a little bit brighter might going a little bit lower now that's not real nice like for your electronics so if you're running computer off this you're charging your cell phones and such that might damage those where this will not do that this is adjusting the power that you need if they adjust their engine speeds to match the power demand if you will that just run a full bore all the time it's also going to burn way less fuel that's why if you're running this thing on economy mode you're going to get 18.5 hours 18 and a half hours on a full tank which is like 6.5 gallons there's also less maintenance because there's less Parts in this compared to that believe it or not a couple other real nice like things here you got these really beefy handles if I want to bring those down so I can lock that and then not worry about storing it with the handle out I can do that the back left wheel locks the front right wheel locked on FYI say you're in crisis mode and well the Bat Ray inside here the internal that I showed you to runs this well maybe that's dead I can flip that just push that to on and while it starts right up and you can see I'm clearly talking to you no issue with this thing running you move this away from the house 20 feet you're not going to hear it you're going to be able to sleep through tonight another thing I want to point out is this is not fuel injected this is a carburetor which a lot of people are not going to have issues with because they're just easier to fix however what about that sweet sweet wonton so I'm gonna be straight out with you right now there's a 90 day warranty on this but you can buy an extended warranty if you wanted to for like 250 300 that'll last you quite a few years but this is what I'll tell you this is the newer model it came out about nine months ago this is not the older model it's the newer model there have been videos posted on the older model that have ran 24 hours a day for people living off grid for like two years with no problems if you are planning on doing that I would get the extended if you're planning on just running this off grid you know you got your homesteading set up hit the one time but if you're just using this for storm outages and such I wouldn't Buy and I just wouldn't get it but of course that that's up to you there's one other thing I want to point out and I know I'm going to get some comments in the comment section below don't get me wrong I love that sweet sweet feedback but only when it's legit sweet sweet feedback now you're going to say that this is a horrible threat has item and that is junk and well tell me in a year when it breaks down on you these things have been going non-stop on many channels for years and they're flying off the shelves and if anything you would think that you would want this to succeed to help you know combat the cost of the Hondas and the other generator inverters out there on the market you want competition and basically it's from the same people leaving the same comments on every single tool video I did whether it's a compressor a nailer a drill impact reset on any brand I always get the same comments it's going to be dead in a year and that is never the case I don't bring junk to this Channel and would I recommend this this is really really a nice inverter generator it is super quiet super efficient I've gotten comments on my shorts about other people that have purchased this exactly the newer unit and it starts up immediately within the first pool of taking this thing out of the box and if you are that worried about this thing blowing up on you within the first six months which I don't think you have any issues to worry about get the extended warrant huh it's still going to be cheaper to get the extended warranty than going out and spending five thousand dollars on a different inverter generator I don't bring junk to this Channel and believe me you uh I get a lot of offers to bring some junk to the channel and I turn them all down the only things I bring to this channel are the things that I believe you will like you're gonna think it's real nice like again you know I make no money maybe off the YouTube ad Revenue which everybody on YouTube does that helps the channel continue to go but Harbor Freight pass does not pay me to do this I don't get a commission I don't get an affiliate link with all this the kids are very loud I don't get any of that so if you buy this it really does nothing for me but I will say this go check out the other reviews on this model and I guarantee you're probably going to hear the exact same thing because I've seen them myself Hobart frettes is stepping it up and that's what I want to see I want to see them compete with the other big dogs in the market because that is good for all of us I've said this millions of countless times on this channel we want the competition and if you want a generator inverter and you don't want to bust a bank check this thing out I'm telling you it is it is real nice like I am very happy with it now share this out with your friends leave me a comment in the comment section below because I love hearing next week if it's a legit feedback you know if you don't like something like the wheels are too small on this let me know you know or have you use this what do you think the cons in the the the pros I don't care but don't just come on and say well it's not going to last six months blah blah blah blah because that doesn't mean anything I've heard this comments my entire career on YouTube and none of those comments ever pan out also got a couple videos for you right here back more videos soon

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Length: 17min 27sec (1047 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 21 2023