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Found this unit at Northern, 9000 Surge Watts, 7250 Rated Watts, Item# 166114, $800 + $100 shipping. Ron, same unit you purchased?
Yup, that's the one. I too looked at the Generac. Generac is a well known quality product and a good buy but you'll want the wheel kit which I believe is extra adding to its cost. Being 'thrifty' and living in an area not plagued by very many power outages I chose the Powerhorse based on total delivered price. Don, thanks for calling NT with your warranty questions and posting their response.
My house was wired for an emergency generator by the previous owner. The previous owner sold the brand new never used generator to my neighbor prior to listing the house for sale. Really didn't matter though as I thought the unit was a bit to small to power the house anyway. The bottom line is that throwing out all the perishables from my freezer and refrigerators plus buying drinking water and ice would have cost me as much as my generator had I not purchased the unit prior to Irene's visit. One way or the other I was destined to be spending close to $900.00 and with no power for four days to boot. The plus side is that I'm now ready for what good old mother nature might have up her sleeve the next time she gets pissed off at CT. We're due for a few ice storms this winter aren't we? I don't do cold very well any more and I out grew camping many years ago. Time to get away from the keyboard and exercise my pretty blue and remarkably quiet generator.
Ward, the GPH fuel use of these things isn't too bad with a typical 50% load. I was getting at least 7 hours of run time per tank of fuel (a full tank is just over 6 gallons) with the generator powering everything I normally run in my house - except our 30 amp, 80 gallon electric water heater. I cycled the water heater in during low load times and took no cold showers as it seems our water heater holds its heat pretty well.
Oil consumption was minimal for the four days the unit was running (unit was shut off at midnight and restarted at 6 am during the outage).
Ron