3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
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I wanted to relay my first experience this past weekend with our new Champion 3000-3500 generator and see if anyone has any advice for the problem I ran into:
I recently bought the 3000-3500 Remote start Champion unit from Costco, and used it with my motorhome this past weekend for the first time. It ran great the first night, as it ran for about 9 hours through the night, powering my Air Conditioner. I then gave it a break for about two hours in the early morning hours when it was fairly cool outside. As the morning got warmer around 9am, I filled it back up with gas, and started it back up again to run the A/C during the day. It ran for about an hour or so just fine, but then it seemed to do this thing where it bogged down and sounded like it was barely running and about ready to putter out at any second. I immediately shut it down, and let it sit for about an hour, then tried to restart it. It started up just fine, and ran again for about 30-40 minutes just fine, then did the same thing where it bogged down and was barely operating. Instead of shutting it down immediately like I did the first time, I just pulled out the electrical plug to put it in a no load state...hoping it would resume it's normal engine rpm and sound once it had no load on it. I let it run for about a minute or so like this, but even with no load, it still wouldn't get back into it's normal engine hum or sound...it was still bogged down. I shut it off for the rest of the day, and just ran my onboard Onan. That night, I fired up the champion again. It started up fine and sounded normal. I monitored it for a few minutes with no load, and it seemed to run fine, so I then put a load on it. It ran perfectly the whole night through for about 10 hours. The next day, I again gave it a break during the cooler morning hours, but this time, when I went to start it back up again for the day, I put it under a large shade tree. My suspicion was that the problems it had the first day were potentially heat related. The first day, I had it out in the full sun when it started giving me problems. I also had a piece of plywood on one side of the generator trying to deflect some of the noise away from the motorhome. Although, the plywood did have about a 2 foot space between it and the generator.
Because it ran so well at night, and never gave me problems during the second day when I had it in the shade the whole time, I can only assume this thing is fairly susceptible to over heating. We were in Arizona, but we were camping in Sierra Vista, which is a somewhat higher elevation for Arizona (still high desert though). We did have a fairly mild weekend with temperatures, but I am just wondering if anyone could maybe confirm my suspicion of the problems being related to heat? Also, there really wasn't any additional load on the generator the day it gave me problems, other than the AC of course.
Thanks for any advice.
I recently bought the 3000-3500 Remote start Champion unit from Costco, and used it with my motorhome this past weekend for the first time. It ran great the first night, as it ran for about 9 hours through the night, powering my Air Conditioner. I then gave it a break for about two hours in the early morning hours when it was fairly cool outside. As the morning got warmer around 9am, I filled it back up with gas, and started it back up again to run the A/C during the day. It ran for about an hour or so just fine, but then it seemed to do this thing where it bogged down and sounded like it was barely running and about ready to putter out at any second. I immediately shut it down, and let it sit for about an hour, then tried to restart it. It started up just fine, and ran again for about 30-40 minutes just fine, then did the same thing where it bogged down and was barely operating. Instead of shutting it down immediately like I did the first time, I just pulled out the electrical plug to put it in a no load state...hoping it would resume it's normal engine rpm and sound once it had no load on it. I let it run for about a minute or so like this, but even with no load, it still wouldn't get back into it's normal engine hum or sound...it was still bogged down. I shut it off for the rest of the day, and just ran my onboard Onan. That night, I fired up the champion again. It started up fine and sounded normal. I monitored it for a few minutes with no load, and it seemed to run fine, so I then put a load on it. It ran perfectly the whole night through for about 10 hours. The next day, I again gave it a break during the cooler morning hours, but this time, when I went to start it back up again for the day, I put it under a large shade tree. My suspicion was that the problems it had the first day were potentially heat related. The first day, I had it out in the full sun when it started giving me problems. I also had a piece of plywood on one side of the generator trying to deflect some of the noise away from the motorhome. Although, the plywood did have about a 2 foot space between it and the generator.
Because it ran so well at night, and never gave me problems during the second day when I had it in the shade the whole time, I can only assume this thing is fairly susceptible to over heating. We were in Arizona, but we were camping in Sierra Vista, which is a somewhat higher elevation for Arizona (still high desert though). We did have a fairly mild weekend with temperatures, but I am just wondering if anyone could maybe confirm my suspicion of the problems being related to heat? Also, there really wasn't any additional load on the generator the day it gave me problems, other than the AC of course.
Thanks for any advice.
