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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jasult wrote:
After months of reading and listening to all I opted on the PLAIN JANE Champion 3500 at Tractor Supply and on sale for 279.00. Dear wife and I were on vacation in PA and visited Sands Casino. Wife won a small amount and said happy birthday, now get the Champion before they stop making it (lol) We went to Tractor Supply and paid 34.99 for 3 year service plan for repairs or replacement. I will be using it for my construction business as well so it will be great investment either way.
Question ?? I will be mounting this on rear bumper I fabbed up and can 5ver just be plugged in and run when we get near RV Park when it is hot as to cool down RV with out any switch. My electric cable comes out right there at back next to bumper.
I've never tried running the genset while the FW was in-motion ... perhaps someone can address that. However, obviously you can plug your shoreline cord into the genset if it has the RV receptacle. In my case, my shoreline receptacle was quite some distance from the rear bumper, so I opted to run a dedicated 30a line from the bumper-mounted genset under the FW's frame and bring it up to an automatic transfer switch. With that setup, you can plug-in to shore power or run the genset and never have to switch anything - it's all automatic. The transfer switch also has a delay that lets the genset stabilize for about 20 seconds before transferring the power - handy if you forgot and left the A/C "on" so that the genset doesn't have to try to start with a load online.
Regards,
John
