champion 3100 fuel consumption
Just curious what others have been finding as to how long it will run on a full tank an low watt usage? The manual says 8 hours on 1.5 gallons of gas. I use mine in the winter to keep power in our ...
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mrad wrote:Champion says the 75531i's will run 8 hours on a tank of gas (1.6 gallons) at 25 percent load (5.8a/700w).
Just curious what others have been finding as to how long it will run on a full tank an low watt usage? The manual says 8 hours on 1.5 gallons of gas. I use mine in the winter to keep power in our fish house and was hoping I wouldn't have to run out at 5:00 am in -10 weather to refill. I did use it last weekend and did get one tank that ran at least 11 hours when we were just running light, satellite, and TV. Using the 1,400 watt pizza cooker for about an hour seemed to knock the run time down to about 7-8 hours.
After using my 75531i for the last couple of years:
Approx. 4 hours runtime with a nearly continuous load of approx. 20-22 amps. The 75531i is rated at 23.3 amps/2800w.
As much as 10-11 hours runtime with a minimal load of approx. 2 amps.
