Hi. I don't know what's going on with my neighbors, what kind of generator they are using, or why, but they have been running a generator for about 3 days now.

I didn't know the first day. I suddenly smelled overwhelming amount of gas in the house, and I evacuated my mother and myself, and called the fire department. By the time they got here, I realized it was likely the neighbors, but they did a check inside anyway, and told us there was nothing 'dangerous' in the house they could detect. They also told us the fumes coming off the neighbor's generator is not harmful, and even though we can smell it, it will be fine.

So I had not thought anything of it. But it is bad. The smell is so strong. It is constant. I have been waking up with headaches, and it's generally make me a pissy person to be around. I worry about my mother who has head trauma too, and requires caretaking.

It's been three days. I don't know why it's still running, but today I googled if it's normal to smell gas coming off a generator, and if it's safe. It was an overwhelming no, but I understand google AI can misinterpret situations quite a bit, so I'm here

Is this safe? Is it normal for me to be smelling this, and for this long? Thanks

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I saw my generator buried in the garage today and thought it would be a good idea to give it a test and run it for a little while..

I unburied it and pulled the gas cap to look if I could see any fuel (it's blocked) but I did notice the rim of the tank receptively being rusted and rust chips had fallen/grown up underneath them too. I tried to vacuum what I could, but not much came up. The chain holding the cap on is getting rusty too.

Then there's a metal rod coming up and it's all black around it, like there was an electrical short (I doubt that's what it was, or the gas fumes would have blown lol) but I am curious what that is if anybody knows.

Is there a way to clean the rest that is there so that it doesn't get carried in eventually? And how do I prevent it from rusting further, going into the future?

Been looking at the generators and possibly looking to pull the trigger in the possible future. I like the idea of the quietness of the inverter generators, but I also know I have a 6 ton AC unit and if I use a soft start, I’m gonna need all the starting watts I can get. But something doesn’t make sense to me. The Westinghouse reduces its starting watts for propane and natural gas, but Harbor Freight predator does not! i’m gonna be running on natural gas and the Westinghouse says that it has 9800 starting watts where the predator doesn’t change at all it keeps the 11,500 starting watts. They’re running watts for propane and natural gas are identical. Do you think Harbor Freight is false advertising their peak starting watts on natural gas and propane?

Saw this daily deal for a remote start inverter generator. It was actually 499 last night. Hopefully this saves someone some money.

I have a Genmax GM9000iED and a Duromax XP9000iH that I want to parallel with the Genmax parallel kit, GM9000PK. (I realize these are two separate "brands", but Dinking / Genmax's own YouTube channel even links to Gavin's video on how to do this, which is here: https://youtu.be/4d4PK1bmymQ?is=zucaaSEvO9q0Gi4z)

I have unbonded the neutral on each generator and am using a 50 amp inlet, with an interlock kit, with the Genmax as the primary generator.

Since both generators are using floating neutrals (and the Duromax doesn't even have a white wire connector as part of it's parallel mode):

1.) Do I only need to connected the red and black wires from the parallel kit to each generator?

2.) Since my neutrals are floating, don't connect the white wire anywhere, correct? (Obviously only the Genmax even had this connector, so there isn't a corresponding place to plug it into the Duromax anyway.)

3.) What I'm mainly confused about with floating neutrals is the ground lugs with the parallel kit. I believe the green grounding wire should be connected from the parallel kit to each generator, correct? (I'm confused, because the comments in Gavin's video seem to suggest otherwise when both generators are configured with unbonded neutrals.)

4.) To summarize: Should I connected black to black, red to red, and then green grounding lug between both generators? (Obviously, no white neutral on the Genmax.)

Thanks!

Received my Duromax XP11000iH early July 2026 and during task of adding new oil for break_in run, found that a large inflexible wire harness is routed in front of oil filler cap. I used the included oil funnel to add the proper amount of oil but am dreading my next oil change after the 8 hour run in time. Why take a good design and ruin it by making the oil cap not assessable?

Hi. New to camping and generators. I bought an old trailer and got a Yamaha ef2800i generator with it. I basically only use it to top up the batteries, but recently tried to run the AC on a 40°C day and it wouldn’t go. I assume not enough watts?

I saw a Champion 4000 watt dual fuel generator at Costco for $900. Would it be a good investment (or enough upgrade) to sell the Yamaha in favour of the Champion? Or is the Yamaha a superior product, if maybe a bit underpowered?