Mine doesn't and I think an impromptu survey a few months back found no one who had experienced this in real life.
I know it's the official word and I know thor does whatever can be done with whatever non-drug-screened worker shows up that day...
.but
I ran mine 64 miles into the low fuel light and the generator kept running.
I was experimenting/verifing is why I ran so low. First cough and I'd have put my five gallon reserve into it.
This is yet another one of those things that I feel like I have been lied to about. But I have never checked to see what happens. I just no my genny has never cutoff except some extremely rare moment but starting right back up.
But questions a thinking man would ask before spreading folklore.
1. Just because of being below 1/4 tank, I am no closer to running out of gas with genny running. After all 1/4 tanks means about 150 miles before E, I need a Calculator to count the number of gas stations I will pass in 150 miles.
2. If it were to cut off, what is the design for how it cuts itself off? Is it out of gas? Is it some electronic sensor in the tank that tells the genny to shutdown?
3. I have heard some say the real reason is damage to fuel pump? If so, why no issues with portable generators, lawnmowers etc.? Besides if you were worried about low fuel for fuel pump, doesn't designing the fuel system to starve off fuel to the generator is just increasing the likelihood of the theoretical fuel pump damage?
Next trip, I will get down to 1/8 of tank and start my genny . That should be with about 60 miles to E?