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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NM_Desert_Rat wrote:
Wyatt-S, allpraisebob, et al:
I rewired my PP3500 per Wyatt-S's drawing on his profile page, without any noticeable difference in performance. Here are the symptoms (same symptoms before and after mod):
Desert,
I had those same symptoms prior to re-wiring but have not had that since. Are you sure you followed the instructions precisely? If you did not, then you may still be pulling current from only one coil. You have to bridge the red and brown coil leads and move the red panel lead to the blue Gen lead. This should put the coils in parallel and you should no longer have the symptoms you describe unless you have an open coil on the Gen. The easiest way to test for this is to put the Gen back to factory wiring and test for 240 volts. If you have 220-240V then both coils are fine if you have 0 volts then one coil is open. There are other methods but this one is the simplest.
You might have overloaded the primary coil when you had all the RV appliances on, prior to rewiring. I tried that and recall that the voltage was dropping significantly. Did not do that too long for fear of frying one of the coils.
