Northern and Harbor Freight offer primarily chinese products, parts and repair facilities are "iffy."

Honda is top of the line and has top of the line pricing as well.

I have had good luck with Generac.

Good luck,

Ev

I agree with the previous post. Generac is a pretty good machine. Not as good as Honda, but considerably less expensive.

I've got a 10 year old Generac built before Briggs acquired them and put their own motors on everything. Mine is a 10kw with an 18hp Subaru Robin v-twin. Bought it second hand five years ago, and probably put 75 to 100 hours per year, depending upon how reliable PSE&G happens to be in central NJ. Last outage was Irene in September, which save me two nights in a hotel.

Although you can get the Robin engine anymore, the Briggs now used are pretty good motors, and you should be happy with it.

Thanks for the replies.
I wasn't really thinking about Generac, but now I am. A couple of my electricians (I'm a PM with a GC) have told me that they make solid, if not spectacular, products.

I haven't had any problems with any of my Briggs engines that dropping the carb bowl and hitting it with Gumout didn't solve.

Now I have to start thinking XP vs XG Series if I go Generac.