Electric generator

[1lessdog]

I was in Costco today and seen a Yeti Electric generator and you charge either with Solar panels or a 110 outlet. Other than being 1300.00 it didn't seem to bad. Would be easy and worry free if a person was only running lights and TV'S.

 

Anyone else seen them?

http://www.goalzero.com/p/138/goal-zero-yeti-1250-solar-generator-kit

 

[grasshopper]

Kind of spendy and heavy. I'll stick with my noisy Honda.

 

[elkrivermn]

Why support products from overseas? Buy an Owens from Fridley built by Cummings an American owned company. 

 

[LindellProStaf]

Do they make small generators that you can carry like a Honda or Yamaha?

[elkrivermn]

7 hours ago, LindellProStaf said:

Do they make small generators hhatn carry like a Honda or Yamaha?

They use to build portables, dropped them after the imports flooded the box stores. They supply  about  90% of RV gen sets.

[Princeton]

On April 3, 2016 at 10:54 PM, 1lessdog said:

I was in Costco today and seen a Yeti Electric generator and you charge either with Solar panels or a 110 outlet. Other than being 1300.00 it didn't seem to bad. Would be easy and worry free if a person was only running lights and TV'S.

 

Anyone else seen them?

http://www.goalzero.com/p/138/goal-zero-yeti-1250-solar-generator-kit

 

Interesting concept and nice packaging, this thing is essentially a portable UPS.   Be a steal at around $400.

The solar panels appear to only put out 30 watts of power each so to recharge the battery you are looking at at least a day with full sun.   You could accomplish the same thing buy buying a batteriy and adding a inverter to it then just recharging after every use.  My fear would be after a few years and the batteries die you are stuck with a fancy and expensive inverter.   

[Hawg]

All this stuff looks great on paper.....................

[Stanley Fisher]

Looks heavy to me.