3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

professor95 wrote:
John,

I hope everyone behind your FW has good brakes and stays off their cell phone. Forbid that anyone would run into the back of the FW (generator).

:S

A funny story - Back in my '73 DeTomaso Pantera days, I noted the exhaust system was pretty badly rusted and had just ordered a new system. (For those not in the know - the Pantera is a midengine sports car in the Lamborghini Countach vein - sits just a few inches above the ground and has the worlds shortest exhaust system - the mufflers basically bolt to the headers and you have 4 exhaust pipe tips coming out of that - they protrude out below the rear bumper.)

While stopped at a traffic light one day, I felt a mini-whiplash impact accompanied by a sickening crushing metal sound. Nauseated, I shut her down and slowly walked to the back of the car, not wanting to see what I was sure I was going to see!

A big 'ole hunk of Detroit iron had rear ended the Pantera. The other car's bumper had hit those exhaust tips, crushing them into the mufflers, but NO sheet metal was bent, nor was the bumper. Knowing I was going to toss the old exhaust when the new parts arrived, a wave of relief washed over me.

Then, I walked back to the car that hit me. A mother had apparently reached over to get the baby's bottle off the floorboard, her foot came off the brake, and that's why she had rolled into me.

Wide-eyed, she was looking at my car, then looking at me, back and forth. Her eyes said "I bet it'll cost a million dollars to repair his car and I think he's going to kill me!"

I asked her if she was OK and she said she was. The baby was all strapped in and having a good time. I leaned over in the window and said, "You're not going to understand this, but just forget this ever happened. Have a nice day!"

I drove off leaving her totally bewildered.:B

Which comes to your point, you know, there IS a trailer wiring plug on the FW's receiver hitch - I was thinking about putting some supplemental brake lights on the genset mount!:h
I'm a novice welder, so I thought a fun project might also be to build a sort of "nerf bar" bumper from tubular steel that protrudes out a bit behind the genset to offer a sacrificial crush zone.:E

If that Pantera scenario happened again and the driver said "What's the problem, it only dented the generator!" After all the mods I've done, I'd probably have a stroke!:R