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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Learjet wrote:
So you load tested it on nautral gas yourself and have 25% power loss?
Just making sure I got it right, because I have a Tri-fuel Yamaha EF2600c from them and I can get full load on nautral gas. I also have a Champion 3000w/3500w, that I was considering the conversion on also...one day ;)
So, if I'm doing my math right, you can draw 19 amps on both nat gas and gasoline with that unit?
I can run at 29 amps on gasoline. At 31 amps it still runs, but is obviously struggling and I wouldn't say the gen can support a 31 amp load.
On natural gas, it can't support that same 29 amp load. It bogs down and although it hasn't stalled, I'm sure it will. I have to remove the load within a few seconds to prevent stalling. I'm too chicken to let it die at full load on purpose.
I need to do some more testing to be absolutely sure that 22 amps is my upper bound with natural gas. I was playing around more and I think it was running with an additional 2 amp (halogen light) load, which doesn't sound like much, but that brings the percent loss from 25 (actually I rounded wrong - it was 24 percent) to 17 percent.
In any case, I'm happy I did the conversion and would do it again. I would also say to go for the CIC (carb drilled for 3 way operation) vs the adapter. On some carbs the adapter blocks a port on the face of the carb and makes it run poorly on gasoline. This seemed to be the case on mine. With the CIC it runs fine on gasoline and you don't need to cut the frame.
