3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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This is of my new Champion 3500 (4450 watt peek) watt gen set that I bought today at Checker Auto. It is wired for 120/240 so only 1750 watts is available for me to use with my camper. It is on sale for $299 It has the large muffler and is fairly quiet compared to my Coleman but loud compared to my Honda 3000. It came with a wheel kit that I have not yet installed as well as a 12 volt charging cable to charge up automotive batteries (10 amp). It also came with a spare foam air filter. It did come dry. NO oil in the crankcase. It does have 2 ell shaped shipping brackets that need to be removed. The engine is a 6.5hp Honda clone.
I have it running outside right now with a 1500 watt load on it. At 1 am, I am going to switch over to the other plug and run it to daylight to get it broken in a bit.
I want to configure it so ALL of the 3500 watts are going to be on the same set of the 120 volts. I do not need to generate 240 volts so wiring in a switch will not be necessary.
Below is a picture of the head of the gen set with the cover removed.
I think this is going to be an easy conversion since the coils of the gen set are conveniently wired to a terminal strip as shown in the picture. The red and dark blue wire go into the gen set as a pair and ohm out to be shorted when tested (test done with them removed from the terminal strip) and the white and brown wires show the same. The light blue (left side of picture) and another brown wire (right side of picture) (not seen, it is under the visible brown wire) go to the power panel. The center terminal has 3 wires on it. Two white and one red wire. One of these white wires go to the power panel. As already mentioned, the other 2 are paired with the light blue and the brown wire.
Would I be correct if I moved the center white wire to the dark blue and the center red wire to the brown wire? One side of my new 110 would then be the dark blue and white wire and the other side of my 110 would be the brown and red wire. The wire colors are consistent with the drawing by allpraisebob.
I'll be replacing the 240 volt plug with a 30 amp camper plug and doing something creative with the circut breaker.
Edit: The above wiring did work just as it was supposed to.
I have it running outside right now with a 1500 watt load on it. At 1 am, I am going to switch over to the other plug and run it to daylight to get it broken in a bit.
I want to configure it so ALL of the 3500 watts are going to be on the same set of the 120 volts. I do not need to generate 240 volts so wiring in a switch will not be necessary.
Below is a picture of the head of the gen set with the cover removed.
I think this is going to be an easy conversion since the coils of the gen set are conveniently wired to a terminal strip as shown in the picture. The red and dark blue wire go into the gen set as a pair and ohm out to be shorted when tested (test done with them removed from the terminal strip) and the white and brown wires show the same. The light blue (left side of picture) and another brown wire (right side of picture) (not seen, it is under the visible brown wire) go to the power panel. The center terminal has 3 wires on it. Two white and one red wire. One of these white wires go to the power panel. As already mentioned, the other 2 are paired with the light blue and the brown wire.
Would I be correct if I moved the center white wire to the dark blue and the center red wire to the brown wire? One side of my new 110 would then be the dark blue and white wire and the other side of my 110 would be the brown and red wire. The wire colors are consistent with the drawing by allpraisebob.
I'll be replacing the 240 volt plug with a 30 amp camper plug and doing something creative with the circut breaker.
Edit: The above wiring did work just as it was supposed to.
