Honda Portable Generators

This is a review of Honda Portable Generators, by far the quietest generators around and in fact, when talking with Generac on the phone, the rep even admitted so saying that they were the quietest generator around next to a company that specialized in quite generators.

Later during my discussion with the generac rep, I mentioned Honda and although she would not say the word ‘HONDA’, she made a number of statements clearly telling my I had hit the mark. However, I did find that the Cummins Onan Portable Generators has a 58 dB(A) rating at 7 feet (Honda does their measurement at 9 feet), putting it right there or quieter than Honda

Honda has a great video on the sound of portable generators and you can clearly tell the difference, but that difference comes with a price, a big price!

The biggest generator I found that Honda makes is the EU6500iSA model; it has a noise level of 60dB(A) at rated load (they call this ‘Super Quiet’), runs for 4.7 hours an comes with a 3 year warranty.

Honda suggests the Eu6500 portable generator should cost $5,000 (Wow!); however, I called all the dealers within 40 miles of my place and found that two were willing to sell it to my for $3,284, that’s $1,216 savings by just calling around!

I did not buy the Honda portable generator, it was just too much money!

FYI – Andrew at Coffman Electric (616) 452-8708 was the ONLY dealer who gave me a great price right off the bat. I didn’t have to haggle, he didn’t give me some lame sales pitch, just an excellent price right. The other dealer who was willing to match the price, but started of high, I won’t bother mentioning.