Cummins P4500i
Portable inverter · Gasoline
Ships to your door
Cummins Onan portable
Onan P2500i
Inverter portable generator, gasoline. Ships to your door — no installation, no permit, no electrician.
2,500W Gasoline Inverter — safe for electronics $75.00 shipping
Inverter generators produce clean power - low total harmonic distortion - which means you can run laptops, routers, modern TVs and variable-speed equipment off it without worrying about what the waveform is doing to them. They are also dramatically quieter than a conventional open-frame set, and they throttle down when the load is light instead of running flat out.
Ship weight is 60 lb. Portables cover essentials during an outage: refrigeration, lights, well and sump pumps, phones and networking. They do not run central air conditioning, which in a Texas summer is usually the load that actually matters — if that is your concern, a permanently installed standby unit is the honest answer.
Price
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$623.75
$75.00 shipping · ships to your door
Total cost to own
$698.75
$698.75
$623.75 plus $75.00 freight. No installation, no permit, no site survey — unlike a standby generator, this is the whole number.
The P2500i is sold by UTS ElectricPros, an authorized Cummins dealer in Dallas–Fort Worth. Buying through an authorized dealer is what keeps the manufacturer warranty valid — equipment bought from an unauthorized reseller frequently is not covered, and owners tend to find that out at the worst possible moment.
| Part number | A074Z433 |
|---|---|
| Fuel | Gasoline |
| Ship weight | 60 lb |
Questions about the P2500i
How much is the Cummins Onan P2500i?
$623.75, plus $75.00 shipping. There is no installation, no permit and no electrician involved with a portable, so $698.75 is the whole cost.
What will the P2500i run?
It is rated at roughly 2,500 starting watts. In practical terms that covers a refrigerator plus lights, phones, laptops and networking gear, which is the core of getting through a short outage. A portable will not run central air conditioning; that is what a standby unit is for.
What fuel does the P2500i use?
Gasoline. If the unit will sit unused for long stretches, use fuel stabilizer and run it dry before storage - stale gasoline is the single most common reason a portable will not start when it is finally needed.
Can I use the P2500i to back-feed my house?
Only through a properly installed transfer switch or an interlock kit. Plugging a generator into a wall outlet - a suicide cord - back-feeds the utility line and can kill a lineman working to restore your power. It is also illegal. If you want the generator to power house circuits, we install a manual transfer switch, and if you are doing that anyway it is worth asking whether a standby unit is the better buy.
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What it is for
Power you can carry to where it is needed
You need electricity somewhere there is none, or somewhere it has just stopped. Camping and tailgating, a jobsite before the service is energised, running tools at a property with no supply, or covering the refrigerator, the lights and a pump through a short outage at home.
Why it becomes urgent
No installation, no permit and no electrician — you buy it, it ships, and it works the day it arrives.
Who buys it
Campers, tailgaters, tradespeople, and homeowners who want a fallback without a five-figure installation.
Before you buy the P2500i
The questions that decide whether this is the right machine, answered properly rather than in a sentence on a product page.
- What fuel should I be running?Gasoline, propane and diesel each change runtime and storage.
- Would a permanent standby suit me better?A portable is manual and refueled by hand. Standby starts itself.
All the generator guides we have written
Every Cummins Onan portable generator · Or a permanent standby that starts itself
After the P2500i is in
A generator is a fifteen-year relationship, not a transaction. What that looks like from here.
Cummins warranty, and ours
What the manufacturer covers, what the installer covers, and which one you call when something fails.