eBay with MaxTool has the DuroMax XP4400E 4400-Watt Portable Gas Power Generator for $300 with free shipping. Features air-cooled 196cc 7HP DuroMax engine, low-oil shutoff, EZ-Pull recoil start, four gallon tank, and includes a wheel and handle kit.
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can you overnite this to north carolina?
Cast-Ironed Sleeved engine?
peak 4,400 watts, 3,500 Constant.
Runs 8 hours at 50% constant power (1,750 watts)
Wouldn't buy it.
peak 4,400 watts, 3,500 Constant.
Runs 8 hours at 50% constant power (1,750 watts)
Wouldn't buy it.
Cast iron sleeve is desirable. On real cheap engines you just have the pot-metal block machined to create the cylinder walls while adding an iron sleeve will withstand the heat and wear better. Nobody is going to make such a very heavy (iron) and expensive (either iron or aluminum) block out of solid cast iron or aluminum for a consumer grade engine. An industrial rated engine would cost more than $300 by itself.
Granted, in this engine size/class you might not even be able to find one that doesn't have a cast iron sleeve, the "desirable" feature improvements in this type would be overhead valves and (type of) float carb used, as well as being a name brand engine so you have higher availability of replacement parts. It seems to have the former two but not the latter. I wonder if it has carb adjustments or if the EPA emissions factor swayed them to omit that feature.
"IF" it uses the following engine it does have overhead valves,
http://www.maxtool.com/us/products/XP7HP.asp but I can't tell from the pictures as there are slight differences, but since I see no Duromax 7HP that isn't OHV, it probably is.
Try to avoid using ethanol gas blends in equipment like this.