DuroStar DS7200 6,000 Watt Diesel Powered Portable Generator With Wireless Remote Electric Start

Product Review

As long as you're mechanically inclined, or, know somebody who is, this unit is not a bad choice at all. I've run one tank of fuel through it so far and besides the starter solenoid wire coming off (on the very first run, but by no means considering that) along with the injector line needing tightening (it was weeping fuel just a bit) so far so good. This unit *WILL* smoke on startup, it has no pre-heat at all, so white smoke and stumbling/missing is completely typical until the combustion chamber gets up to temperature. It's also going to throw off black smoke when restarted if it really is warmed up as it comes up to speed, and might give a chuff of black smoke on severe load adjustments. Once more all this is normal for a tiny diesel, and also the white smoke starts are completely normal for a cold diesel without any pre-heat assistance. With no a pre-heat I also wouldn't anticipate this unit to start if the outside air temp is below freezing. The lack of a pre-heat (glow plug or otherwise) will be the only large minus, the generator head itself also just isn't quite top quality, another small irritation is the lack of a operating hours meter. There *IS* a constant draw on the battery from the stupid remote start off program. You'd be advised to rip that out/disable it if you are unable or unwilling to put the unit on a battery maintainer. (Review More...)