GenTent Safety Canopy | Hurricane Gear Test

A generator is a handy piece of equipment to have whenever the power goes out, especially during storms. Absolutely. So in this week's hurricane gear test, meteorologist Sean Dawson, along with meteorologist Allison Gargaro, look at a way to protect your portable generator. And the reason why I like this product so much is because it helps us to protect the generator, helps us want to do it. Basically, this is a tent. The product is called Gen and it's a little customizable tent that goes over the generator and it will protect it from the elements. These air fire retardant. They're very specific made. You know, they're heavy. Yeah, they're heavy duty. When you have an external frame, they have these clamps that just attach, you know, to those points. But when you have it would be like clamping. Yeah, it would just a clamp to the external. But but this is a this is an inverter. It has an internal frame. And so they have a system that uses this ratchet right here. Do you see this strap that goes around? I've already pre attached this. So you've got this ratchet strap that goes around and on the corners, you attach these little arms that come off of here. And so you've got, you've kind of attached with this ratchet strap a little bit of a frame. The gin tent folks have plans designs for over 4000 generators. So you know, yeah, you go to your weapon, go to the website, you put in what generator you have and then, you know, it puts it on and it tells you, look, you need to have one arm on this end, two arms on this one and it tells you which holes that they go in. I mean, it's all done up for you. Wow. And these are very bendable. They look that way. But man, this will remind you of actually, you know, building a tent. You know, if you've done that before, you'll put this one. All right, last one. Always the tough one, right? You need me to hold this? Let's see. Team work. Put it here. Okay, good. So again, made it work. All right. So that's the frame for the tent, right? And, um, this just sort of slides over the top and we'll just kind of snug it down a little bit. And then you've got these straps that will go around and you're supposed to put them as close to the, uh, yeah, the frame as you can. The key is that now, because you don't want to set your generator out in the rain, that's not going to be good for it. But you're also not going to be putting it up underneath your porch or in your garage. You got to get that at least 30 ft out from the house. And this really allows you to protect it. I give the gin tent safety canopy a cat five out of five on my hurricane kit priority scale. This product protects that expensive generator, but more importantly, keeps your family safe. The price will vary some depending on models. How do you protect your generator? Tell me in a comment on my YouTube channel. Just search for meteorologist John Dawson. GD's hurricane gear test is brought to you by Centerpoint Energy.