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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New guy, thanks to this thread.
Sold my old clunker of a generator the day after power came back after Irene.
Have a HF 2 stroke 800 watt as well, for backup.
Went shopping for something new, modern, chonda. Have several 6.5 hp HF greyhound engines on snowblowers and am very fond of them.
Got this GEN3250 from Home depot for a reasonable $230 shipped.
Jokers at UPS body slammed it enough to bust the aluminum "ears" on the engine and gen head, on the air filter side. And they dented the gas tank, but I don't care about that.
I ran the generator, before I noticed the busted ears, and it runs great (quiet) and makes power.
HD will let me return it to the store. Their customer service is coming through.
The problem, is HD is out of stock of this model. The next equivalent is $320. I can get my money back, but I would then be out of a bargain.
Does the group consensus think there'll be another generator in this price range by, oh, the day after thanksgiving? Just noticed the southwest had a 1.3 million person blackout, great, more competition.
Advance Auto has their Champion 3500 for $269, minus a 20% coupon. None are in stock online and the closest in store is five hours away. This thing was out of stock at $299 for a month at least; IDK why they put it on sale.
I have 30 days to decide if I'm returning this bad boy or if it's worth living with its idiosyncracies. I'm mostly concerned that the shock did something inside the generator head... like cracking a solder joint... that will be a latent problem that will pop up later.
I can rig another cross member to support the unused mounting tab on the engine, using the stock rubber mount. This would void my warranty.
I often buy used; something new and returnable with warranty is a novelty in my house. There are also politics involved of me being at work and the wife calling b/c she can't get the generator started, or it's surging, or (insert nag here). If I go jury rigging a brand new thing it can come back to bite me if an even unrelated issue appears.
Sold my old clunker of a generator the day after power came back after Irene.
Have a HF 2 stroke 800 watt as well, for backup.
Went shopping for something new, modern, chonda. Have several 6.5 hp HF greyhound engines on snowblowers and am very fond of them.
Got this GEN3250 from Home depot for a reasonable $230 shipped.
Jokers at UPS body slammed it enough to bust the aluminum "ears" on the engine and gen head, on the air filter side. And they dented the gas tank, but I don't care about that.
I ran the generator, before I noticed the busted ears, and it runs great (quiet) and makes power.
HD will let me return it to the store. Their customer service is coming through.
The problem, is HD is out of stock of this model. The next equivalent is $320. I can get my money back, but I would then be out of a bargain.
Does the group consensus think there'll be another generator in this price range by, oh, the day after thanksgiving? Just noticed the southwest had a 1.3 million person blackout, great, more competition.
Advance Auto has their Champion 3500 for $269, minus a 20% coupon. None are in stock online and the closest in store is five hours away. This thing was out of stock at $299 for a month at least; IDK why they put it on sale.
I have 30 days to decide if I'm returning this bad boy or if it's worth living with its idiosyncracies. I'm mostly concerned that the shock did something inside the generator head... like cracking a solder joint... that will be a latent problem that will pop up later.
I can rig another cross member to support the unused mounting tab on the engine, using the stock rubber mount. This would void my warranty.
I often buy used; something new and returnable with warranty is a novelty in my house. There are also politics involved of me being at work and the wife calling b/c she can't get the generator started, or it's surging, or (insert nag here). If I go jury rigging a brand new thing it can come back to bite me if an even unrelated issue appears.
