pilot patriot channel now just a few days ago we had a
hurricane sweep up the east coast and of course while preparing for that i
was getting the generator out making sure it was running well making
sure i had all my fuel cans filled up and everything like that and i
thought now before i put all this stuff away would be a great time
to let y'all know what i'm using and maybe give you guys some ideas of how to
prepare for storms in the future if you like this kind of videos guys
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now the generator we have here is the wind 11 000 watt
dual fuel generator this thing is awesome that dual fuel means that it can
run off gasoline or propane and there are a lot
of huge benefits to that of course you guys know i like to have
lots of options and so something like this is just perfect for me
you guys know i like to keep some fuel stored for emergency purposes
i have done a whole video on how to store gasoline and treat it so it lasts
a long time if you haven't seen that i'll put that
link up here at the top of the screen but one thing you may not know is that
propane as long as it's stored properly does not have a shelf life it does not
break down and go bad the way gasoline does
which makes it a great fuel source for something like
an emergency generator something that you may only use once or twice a year
it's nice to have a fuel source that you can store indefinitely
now the reason i chose wind generators is because i think you get
a lot for your money like i said this is an 11 000 watt
generator with the dual fuel feature and a lot of other great features
that you may not see from other brands but you get all that for a much lower
price than you see from some of those bigger
name brands this wind 11 000 watt dual fuel generator you
can get from around 800 to 900 bucks depending on what promotions they have
going on and you just cannot beat that value now
let's take a look at the generator i'll go over a few of the features
and then we'll crank this bad boy up and show you how it works
all right now as you can see here guys you have your fuel selection switch
that's where you're going to select whether you're running it off of gas or
propane we'll demonstrate that here in a minute
this is an electric start generator with a 12 volt battery
so that's nice and easy for cranking it up of course it also has a pull start
just in case that battery were to go dead
it's also going to have a data meter here that can show you the voltage how
much power you're using and things like that
that's a nice feature there moving on down it does have a 12 volt dc
cigarette lighter type outlet there so you can plug in
phone chargers and any dc electronics that you have
you are going to have 420 volt outlets on there
so you can plug in a bunch of different things you also see that each outlet
does have a breaker now moving on down it does have 120 volt
30 amp twist lock plug that's what most of you guys are going
to use for plugging into like an rv or plugging it into your house and then
because this thing is putting out so much power
you're also going to have a 120 and 240 volt
50 amp plug and that's also going to be for plugging it in
to your house to run some of your major appliances and potentially even run your
entire house off of this generator now just give you guys a little walk
around the generator here there's going to be your pull start your
fuel shut off there and then your choke lever
your exhaust over here on this side you can see guys it does come with the
wheel and handle kit that's really nice because this thing is
heavy so it's nice to have that kit to run around it does seem to be pretty
quality wheels and handles there up here on top you do have your fuel
gauge you can see this is a 6.6 gallon tank
this generator advertises that it can run for up to eight and a half hours on
half power now the actual power that you're going
to be getting here guys is 11 000 starting watts
and 8 300 running watts on gasoline and then when you switch over to propane
you're going to get 9 500 starting watts and 7 500 running watts
all right guys now let's crank this thing up i did just start this the other
day so i'm expecting it to crank right
up
that is on the gasoline setting there guys and i know you probably can't tell
from the video but this thing actually is
pretty quiet as far as large generators go
it's not making that much noise especially being outside of your house i
don't think this thing is going to bother you too much
now let's get in here and crank it up with the propane does come with this
hose to connect the propane tank
we're just going to be using a standard 15 pound propane tank but obviously
if you hook this thing up to some larger propane tanks you're going to get a lot
longer run time out of it it is fairly simple here just has a
connection here on the bottom that you screw in then it
has your regular propane connection here that you're just
going to plug in there and twist it on
now once we have it hooked up to the propane tank we're just going to turn
that propane on and then we're going to switch our fuel
selector switch here over to propane and then let's see how
she does
all right no issues there the little revving up there at the beginning
because i did have the choke on as soon as you turn that choke on it even dried
out but yeah that's actually the first time
i've run it off the propane and it was very simple no more
complicated than uh running it off a gasoline other than
having to hook up the propane tank and that went pretty well let's turn
this propane off here
all right now i really love this thing guys i love the dual fuel feature
it's got plenty of power plenty enough power to run
my essentials my water pump my refrigerator freezer
pretty much all the lights in my house phone chargers of course
and plenty of other small appliances depending on your energy needs you could
possibly even power your entire house with this thing
i will put a link to this thing in the description below if you want to get one
for yourself i also want to say this is not my first
wind generator wind also makes a really nice 2000 watt
inverter generator this thing is just amazing i know what
you guys are thinking the small honda generators seem to kind of rule the
roost but those things are going to cost you a
thousand dollars and i think this thing is probably better than the honda
honestly and you can pick this up for about 400
bucks it is incredibly quiet it only weighs 40 pounds so it's pretty
easy to move around and i think with both of these
generators here you got a pretty complete package
can pretty much take care of any of your emergency energy needs as well as your
recreational needs that's it for the win 11 000 watt dual fuel generator guys
they do also make this in a 4700 watt version that's going to save you a
little bit of money on that but at these prices guys you really
can't beat it if you have any questions or comments
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