About Champion Power Equipment
Champion Power Equipment has designed and sold generators since 2003 out of Santa Fe Springs, California, where the company remains headquartered today. Its engineering and R&D team works out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with additional facilities in Jackson, Tennessee and Toronto, Canada. The line has grown well beyond generators into log splitters, chipper shredders, cultivators, pressure washers, water pumps, and winches, but portable and home standby generators remain the core of the business, and the brand was an early mover in bringing dual-fuel (gasoline-and-propane) technology to portable models.
Consumer Reports has independently tested Champion's home standby generators and rated them Excellent for both power delivery and power quality in its outage-preparedness testing. Champion also builds its CO Shield carbon monoxide auto-shutoff system into its generator lineup, a safety feature that automatically kills the engine when CO levels build up dangerously near the unit. That combination of independently verified power quality and a standard carbon-monoxide safeguard is why we look closely at Champion whenever we test generators for home backup.
Brand website: championpowerequipment.com
What Champion Power Equipment makes
Champion Power Equipment's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
Portable inverter generators
clean sub-3% THD output for electronics — featured on DIYRated — featured on DIYRated
Conventional and dual-fuel portable generators
higher-wattage gasoline and gasoline/propane models for jobsite and home backup
Home standby generators
permanently installed, automatic whole-house backup power
Portable power stations
battery-based backup power without an engine
Outdoor power equipment
log splitters, chipper shredders, cultivators and tillers
Pressure washers and water pumps
gasoline-powered cleaning and water-transfer equipment
Why we recognized Champion Power Equipment
The DIYRated Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. Champion Power Equipment earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, put to work on real jobs, and judged on merit.
Champion Power Equipment products we rated highly
Champion 4000W Inverter Generator
At under 49 lbs, this is the lightest 4000-watt inverter generator we tested, and it still delivers 3,000 running watts of clean power under 3 percent THD, safe for laptops, phones and other sensitive electronics. The CO Shield automatic carbon monoxide shutoff is a genuine safety feature rather than a checkbox spec, and the parallel-ready design lets an owner add a second unit later to double output instead of buying a heavier generator outright.
Read the 7 Best Portable Generators of 2026 guide →What earned Champion Power Equipment the recognition
- CO Shield automatic carbon monoxide shutoff comes standard across Champion's generator lineup, a safety feature we weight heavily in our testing criteria.
- Consumer Reports has independently rated Champion home standby generators Excellent for both power delivery and power quality.
- In our own testing, the Champion 4000W Inverter Generator delivered 3,000 running watts of sub-3% THD clean power at under 49 lbs, among the lightest units we've reviewed in its wattage class.
- An early mover in dual-fuel (gasoline-and-propane) technology for portable generators, giving buyers fuel flexibility most competitors added later.
- Over two decades designing generators from Santa Fe Springs, California, with engineering and R&D based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.