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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Wayne Dohnal wrote:Does "compared specs" imply the manufacture published specs, or quantitative hands-on testing?
I won't sign on to some of the consensus. The result every time I've compared specs is that at full power, efficiency is about equal, and at less than full power the inverter generator wins.
While respectively efficient, there's no denying that the inverter alone eats power. As most here already know, to compensate for the inverter losses, they lower the engine RPM during low/no loads to lower fuel consumption. Problem is, many MH owners now are using inverter gensets to accommodate high amp loads - more often than not, continuously. If all you do is power low amp devices and an occasional high surge, then yes, the inverter genset can be slightly more fuel efficient. But I don't expect you to take my work for it....
http://www.fieldlines.com/index.php/topic,146086.0.html
Standby Generator Efficiency Testing (3-4kW)
Generators tested:
Champion 46539
Honda EU3000iS
Honda EM4000SX
Yamaha EF3000iES
Generac GP3250
Yanmar YDG3700 (diesel)
