Generator Brands Review
When you buy a generator, you're making an important investment, both financially and in terms of your personal safety. You need to be knowledgeable about what different manufacturers offer. Read more here to learn about which company makes the best generator for you.
Generator Brands Review
Sifting through the multitude of manufacturers
What generator is right for you? You've decided on a style and figured how many watts you're likely to use but there are still a number of questions. Start by discerning brand reputations and offerings.
Here is a breakdown of the biggest names in electric generators. Any one of the below companies will provide you a quality generator, but each brand has its own strengths.
- Honda - Honda is known for their stable, rugged engines and their claim of quality comes through in their power generators.
Honda offers a complete line of generators for all uses, from consumer recreation to high-powered commercial engine generators.
The automotive giant offers a line of super quiet inverter generators that are excellent for small jobs and outside recreation. Fully enclosed, these small generators are just right for powering radios and small power tools but strong enough to charge a car battery.
Honda's 4,000-7,000-watt deluxe line of generators is regarded as some of the best values on the market. - Yamaha - Yamaha brings their engine experience from years as a market leader with their motorcycles and ATVs into the electric generator field.
Yamaha's strong, reliable engine generators are available for a multitude of purposes from commercial to consumer level generators, in a wide variety of watt ratings.
Most Yamaha generators feature a unique power throttle switch, which dynamically tailors the generator's overall output based upon the power draw. - Coleman - The number one name in camping gear, Coleman is a major supplier of RV and recreational inverter generators. Built for the rigors of an outdoor lifestyle, expect a Coleman generator to outlast many other similar generators.
- Briggs and Stratton - Briggs and Stratton engines are some of the finest in the business. A major supplier or power equipment such as chippers, and tillers, as well as engines for lawn mowers and snow throwers, the company offers the highest quality generators on the consumer market.
Priced slightly higher than other brands, Briggs and Stratton focus on higher power generators, particularly standby generators. - Kohler - Another premier generator manufacturer, Kohler entered the generator market in the early 1920s with their Automatic Power and Light generator, a 1,500 watt generator that helped power rural America after World War I.
Today's Kohler generators are offered in power ratings from 5,000 watt marine generators to 200,000-watt industrial models. Though the company offers a full line of consumer level generators, they are known for their stable and reliable commercial models.