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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toprudder wrote:professor95 wrote:
Northern Tool and Equipment is now carrying the Category 5 Champion 3,500 watt remote controlled, electric start generator. The only difference is the color scheme. This model is silver and black rather than the familiar yellow and black. You can review it here.
On edit: Is this gasoline or LPG?. It lists the wattage for both LP and NG, but then "fuel type" is listed as gasoline.
I did not see it listed on the Champion website.
Now, isn't that interesting? I am only aware of a gasoline model - must be some ad copy goof? Or, there could be something in the works we do not know about. Northern is big on tri-fuel generators.
When the hurricanes hit the Gulf Coast a few years back, Champion started distributing it's generators to that area under the "Category 5" (by Champion Power Equipment) name. It has, I think, caught on and now caries over to other markets.
When the 46538 came out, it had the Category 5 designation as shown here, while other similar updated designs of the products, like the 6500 shown here, continued to carry only the Champion name.
Now, what I have been led to believe and has become self-evident is that CPE distributors like Home Depot, Lowes, and now Northern Tool have the ability to specify or negotiate features for CPE generators sold in their stores. Currently, these models are a little different and are not all shown on the CPE web site.
It "looks like" Northern not only wanted some different features but a different color scheme along with the Category 5 marque. This is really not that new (the color change) as Ultra-Fab specified blue on their models beginning two years back. There were "rumors" a while back that Lowe's would be selling a KOBALT branded Champion generator painted blue, and Home Depot would have an orange HOMER - but to date that has not happened. Again - only rumors.
To the best of my knowledge, Champion does NOT sell their products under other brand names without specifying that they are Champion Power Equipment products - or now Champion GLOBAL power equipment according to their product labels.
I kinda' like the black and silver.
