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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These Chinese generators depend on gravity feed from a tank at a higher elevation. Also, the needle and seat in the carburetor is not designed to work with the pressures developed by most automotive electric in-line fuel pumps.
Getting the fuel out of a top valve marine tank into the genny will present a challenge.
I removed my Champion from the frame, removed the gas tank and front panel and mounted the engine/generator in a compartment on my motorhome. Rewired the outlets/breakers to new outlet boxes mounted on the compartment wall and mounted a remote gas tank some distance away on the frame ... use a low pressure Purolator fuel pump from Kragen (I think the model is PRO-4) which puts out 1.5-3# pressure. I tried one that I had laying around first, (pressure unknown) but the pressure was to high and stuck the needle in the seat. The low pressure one works fine, runs about 40 bucks.
I use two 100 cfm fans installed in a hole cut in the rear wall (behind the muffler) of the compartment and run it with the baggage door open and it runs just slightly warm to the touch out here in the desert (100 degrees+ outside). They're 12V fans and were $5 a pop at a surplus website.
They cool better if blowing out rather than in ...
If you try this at home, don't be tempted to use the generally otherwise unused 12V tap on the generator to automatically start/stop the fans and pump, with no load mine reads as much as 19V and will quickly fry your fans and pump (yes, I did both the first time around... never thought to check the voltage:R). I just used a DPTP switch in place of the kill switch and when turned on, fires the fans and pump and when off kills the fan, pump and grounds the gen. as the original switch did.
Prof. and everyone, thanks for all the good work and info ...
Tom
