Generac GP3000i on Amazon

[Odd-job]

Dropped from $939 to $693 in less than two days after I ordered

Both love and hate Amazon pricing algorithms.

Anyways this would be good for all of the Norcal folks who are having their power shut off this weekend and are going to learn the hard way. At least the generator will arrive for the next time...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079KRHJ5C/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Jeepster04]

The 3,000 is a little misleading. Its 2300 running watts.

 

[Odd-job]

The 3,000 is a little misleading. Its 2300 running watts.

Yep buyer beware. Am noticing a lot of generators are named after their starting watts as opposed to their actual running watts.

 

[Skin]

Contact customer service. They will price match.

 

[Odd-job]

Contact customer service. They will price match.

Attempted to. They wouldn’t even price match with themselves because it was a limited time offer. Ended up canceling the order and reordering a 2nd one. Of course now am sitting here with no power and no generator. Probably should have kept the first generator and returned the 2nd one for the first generators price.

Anyways I think this was a pretty good deal so hopefully my fellow GJ members are taking advantage of the reduced price. Might get a 2nd one to run in parallel.

 

[superduty1]

Slightly off topic..... When they are shutting off the power up north, how do you still have internet?

My first guess is cell phone. But isn't the power cut to all the cell towers as well?

Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk

 

[Odd-job]

Slightly off topic..... When they are shutting off the power up north, how do you still have internet?

My first guess is cell phone. But isn't the power cut to all the cell towers as well?

Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk

Cell phones and my MIFI still worked. My understanding is that cell towers often have backup power. Someone I spoke to in the Santa Cruz mountains didn’t have cell access though. Also the entire area was not blacked out. It was pretty spotty with streets a quarter mile away with power.

For kicks I powered my cable model and router and couldn’t get a signal.

 

[superduty1]

Cell phones and my MIFI still worked. My understanding is that cell towers often have backup power. Someone I spoke to in the Santa Cruz mountains didn’t have cell access though. Also the entire area was not blacked out. It was pretty spotty with streets a quarter mile away with power.

For kicks I powered my cable model and router and couldn’t get a signal.

During the so cal fires last year many power lines and poles were destroyed which cut off all cell service in the burn areas in the Santa Monica mountains. The cell providers brought in hundreds of generators and put them right below the cell sites in order to get cell service up as it would be weeks/months before all the new power lines were run.





Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk