Generac7154 GP3300i 3,300-Watt Gas-Powered Portable Inverter Generator - Compact and Lightweight Design with Parallel Capability - USB Ports for Mobile Device Charging - CARB Compliant

I have owned other generac products before and have been disappointed by them, ironically the last generac generator I owned was a gp3300, and that model was a standard pull start model not inverted and not clean power.This is the total opposite of that.This thing is totally silent, so quiet we chained it to one of the blocks at our fireworks tent for we were afraid someone might steal it.Anyway I got this to directly replace the noisy older GP 3300 and I have to say this is one of the best generators I have ever owned. As mentioned this thing is near silent, even under full load it's near silent. It provides roughly 3100 Watts continuously for our purposes.During the day it ran a mini glass door refrigerator, register, open sign, and two portable AC units. At night this thing ran the lighting that was built into the fireworks tent without a hiccup, it also ran 8 100 Watt led ground floodlights to light up the banners outside the tent, and because it cooled off at night we could just run fans instead of the AC units.This thing ran nearly continually for 2 weeks as our fireworks tent is 24 hours. The fuel efficiency on this thing is incredible, It would go through a gallon of fuel every 4 hours with it running at 3100 watts output, at night when you could audibly hear it was in eco mode I would fill it up at 10:00 p.m. (it only holds about a gallon of gas) and then I wouldn't have to refill it again until the sun was coming up (approximately 6 am).Your fuel efficiency directly depends on how much power you are pulling from the unit, we never made it pop a breaker, but I guess we did get it to push out too much power once when we didn't turn things on one at a time, and it over surged, the check engine light came on, and about 20 seconds later before I could get to the generator it cut out the motor and turned off. I restarted the generator and made sure to turn on the refrigeration units one at a time, when I did that I was pulling equal load and it handled it a lot better.As of using the USB ports directly on the front, I did not get a chance to, as I would not leave my phone charging on the generator which had to be outside of the fireworks tent and far enough away that it couldn't start anything on fire, so I haven't had a chance to try it, but when I do I will update this review. I will also post longevity updates so people know what to expect on how long one of these will last.We have infrequent power outages where I live, maybe a couple times a year, and usually not for more than a few hours, so this will definitely be handy to keep all of our food cold...I will post updates as the unit ages.***UPDATE 7/11/2023***This generator has now survived 3 fireworks tents, not a problem during the last fireworks tent, but after and during clean up it started randomly surging and shutting off. Between all of the other things we had it do, it has well over 6000 hours on it to date, and I have to say with all of the demand we put on this unit, I am surprised it lasted this long with proper maintenance, most home generators are meant to last 1000 hours as that's the limit on generacs warranty. Even with the current problems I would be willing to buy another unit and not change my review one bit. This thing is an absolute workhorse, and has surpassed my expectations. I highly recommend this generator as I haven't had commercial generators last this long before major problems.We used these a lot more than just for fireworks tents, I use these in a commercial setting and put a lot of demand on them, so to the average home user for camping/fishing/backup-power/occasional use, this will probably be the only generator you'll buy for a long time, if you ever need to replace it. BTW I tested the USB ports on the front, and they provide full quick charging 2.0 or 15W of power and worked perfectly. Mind you all of this took place in the phoenix Arizona metro with 110+ degree weather. If it can be that much of a workhorse out here in the extreme heat, it should last a normal home user a very, very long time. Thanks for reading!***Update 7/24/2023***The motor is toast! I literally ran this generator until the motor wore out! Looked at the hours meter on it and it says 6428.8 hrs run. Good job Generac! Please keep up the good work and keep making dependable generators. Just bought another unit to replace my well worn GP3300i. It keeps it's 5 star rating for being the most dependable generator I have ever owned, I always thought it would be Kohler's industrial line of generators that would get this review, but I have yet to have one of them run longer than 2000 hours before having similar issues.***Update 11/25/23***The generator lives on, I gave this generator to a buddy who's a small engine genius, all he had to do was re-seat the valves, tighten some stuff down within the engine, he did a fresh oil change just to make sure, put in a fresh spark plug, and changed the air filter, and wouldn't you know it, It fired right back up and acted like it was new! Seems like there's just some long-term maintenance that needs to be done to keep this thing going. So I was wrong, it just ran for so long that it needed re-tuning. Now that it has been tuned correctly I feel like this generator could probably go that many hours no problem, but my buddy told me to bring it to him every 1500 hours of runtime so he can re-seat all the valves and tighten everything down internally, he said this thing should last indefinitely as long as I stay on top of that.Go generac! I regret that I purchased a new one with this one working fine, but now it gives me a reason to get the parallel kit. I will be giving that a shot next! If anything else happens to this generator, I will be sure to update this review.*** UPDATE 3/12/2024 ***It finally broke in a way it's going to be very difficult\near impossible to fix. The pullcord spring that rewinds the pullcord inside the generator, broke on the last pull start of the generator. I have since taken it apart to find that the mechanisms that hold it together are integrated into part of the motor assembely. This makes it much too small to even fit a finger in the space to try and replace the broken spring, let alone any tools to remove anything to fix this, this will require a full teardown of the generator to access the broken part. Seeing just how involved this teardown would be I decided to retire the broken unit and keep it for spare parts on the new unit I just got. Not a dealbreaker In the slightest, this probably lasted through 1000+ pulls, and even on big generators you don't get that many pulls before needing to replace the pullcord, so I say this was made very well.This will be the final update I provide on this unit since we see the manufacturing quality of this thing goes far beyond expectations. Thanks GENERAC for making a good dependable generator, Mas.

Bought this as a backup for when power goes out and it is fantastic. I needed something small and portable as I do not have a garage to store it. This is light enough to be carried easily....it turns on very easily and once running it just sits there and purs away...nice and quiet so as not to disturb others. Well made as any Generac system is. Highly recommended. Even took it out to the beach a few times for trips that we wanted to use devices that were power hungry and you could hardly tell it was there.

The media could not be loaded. Great little generator. Got it for storm season, and for working at the camp. Keep the container the oil comes in, keeps you from having to measure it later on.Runs so quiet I accidentally left it running while enjoying the campfire, then noticed when it ran out of gas and I heard it cut off. Whoops!It’s light, you can carry it around. Doesn’t hold much gas, but it’s easy to refill.Run ethanol free, I recommend getting that one gallon gas they sell at Home Depot. It has all the additives you need.Run it out of fuel before you store it, just let it idle till it dies, pull it a couple of more times to make sure it’s all gone. Verify by opening the cap and taking a peek inside.Picked it up on a flash sale, very good value for the money.

I have a SUA2300 that I was using on my boat to run AC and other items. got this to have an ultra quite generator. The noise level is half of the SU. I was surprised when it ran everything on my boat at the same time. air condition, ac outlets, battery charger, microwave and coffee pot. Both generators have the same size tank. aprox 1.1 gal. the su will make it between 10 and 11 hrs. just running the ac at night. best that the generac would do is 5.5 hrs. so it is a trade off for less noise to get up at 3 in the morning to refill the tank.NEW UP DATE FROM A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. Went boating two weeks ago for the weekend. at first startup the Generac generator started on second pull. always been the first or second pull. My AC on the boat seem to be too much for it to get it going. We had to load the generator with other items on the boat (microwave and battery charge) then the AC did start just fine and every cycle after that. However this past weekend we did the same trip. the generator was a no start. We didn't see any spark. suspect a bad coil or spark plug. My other generator was replaced with this one last year because the other was three years old and wanted a little more power. but the SU still works great. From now on I will take both just in case. when I get it fixed I will post the results. I have to remove a star from 5 to 4 for now.

I should have looked at the weight of this item before ordering so it's not that portable for someone my age. I put it on a 16 x 24 furniture dolly so I can roll it around.But it is quiet and starts on the first pull. I poured one gallon of gas into the tank and connected a full-size frig and a freezer. The Generac 3000i ran for 7.8 hours before running out of fuel. It does not have an hour meter so get one of these;https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073V4ZNRF?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_detailsAnd when you install it on the 3000i, remove the two bolts on the ignition coil, disconnect two wires and you'll have enough slack in the plug wire to install the hour meter wire. Don't split the two halves of the enclosure to get at the spark plug wire...huge PIA.