Everlast Diesel Generator

Everlast Diesel Generator

Product Review:
(Everlast AKA “NEVER last”)

This product worries us. It is sold on eBay with an Automatic Transfer Switch. An automatic transfer switch is supposed to turn this unit on automatically when the power goes out and disconnect your home redirecting it to this generator.

Here is a few issues.

The generator is not weather proof so it can’t be left outside where it can be commanded to turn on by itself safely. The transfer switch is also not electrically approved and made in China. Without electrical approval it can’t be connected to your home.

Connecting a generator directly to your whole home will overload it. A automatic transfer switch is a bad combination for this product.

Just like others we tested, there is no place to get it serviced, no company history and missing features necessary for safe operations and future service. The seller now has a website but no contact information on it.

For a company that says they have been around for such a long time and a combined experience of 200 years they don’t even have any information on their website on how to contact them. What we then did is search who owns their website and found the information hidden there too. Domain Name Search shows its been hidden from the public.

Much of the material on the website has been copied from other sites. They even have a photo showing their competitors generator.

Now this is just too funny. It is like Ford having a photo of a GM car on their website. Or how about Burger King having a McDonald’s Burger on their menu!. It seems like a small player in the generator business tying to look like the big boys and does not know how else to do it. Shame they have to copy material from others and look stupid in the process.

Everlast showing Aurora Brand Product on their main front page!

Now back to the product for a moment IF you have not already made up your mind to stay away.. The case here has no access panel on the top. This makes it very difficult to get to the fuel injector, valves and decompression leaver IF they even have one installed. To do so you would need to disassemble it. It is like accessing your cars engine without ever opening the engine hood.

The sellers offer a warranty on SOME parts however do not include shipping and no labor is included. Who will you contact after they stop selling on eBay is unknown.

The sellers claims “Everlast 6500 has proudly UL and CE certified.” however if you contact the UL they have no record of them.

When we asked the seller of this generator brand to send us a copy of the UL certificate he could not.

We have so many other issues with this company however just the above information should be enough to shed some doubt and cause anyone to stay away.

This entry was posted on 17. April 2008 at 14:35 and is filed under Diesel Generators, Generator Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

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