3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

Al in Va wrote:
Did I do good or not so good. I was going to order one of the ELM clones from Harbor Freight (the one they rate at 2600/2800watts), but today I went into Pep Boys, Richmond, VA, and they have some units they called Power Pro by Wen Power, they rate at 3000/3500, with the 6.5 hp,196cc motor. Has one 110 and one 220 outlet and 12 volt, and it looked like you could get the whole output from the one 110 outlet (25amp breaker). It also had a large muffler similar to the ELM3000, and it was right there for $299, so I bought it. Now, does anyone know how noisy these things are? The manual did not give any noise info. Did I do good or not? I would really like to know before I cant stand it any longer and put oil and gas in it and fire it up. If this is a good unit, they had others on the floor. Al in Va.

What it sounds like you have purchased is one of the new Nikota 3500's from the new importer. Nikota has gone out of business and their inventory and assets have been purchased by American Power Products. The design you describe is just like the Nikota in the most recent Pep Boys ad mentioned a page or two back in this thread. Like I said in an earlier post, this unit has one 25A breaker as opposed to two 13A like the ones that started this post.
However, my question would now be to Kevin or to Professor, does this mean that the unit could now be manufactured and wired parallel to the outlet and therefore capable of sustaining the proper wattage to support an RV AC with a dual 30-15 Power Maximizer adapter? Or could this unit still be a single phase that fires to each outlet 180 degrees out of sync?
I took mine to a local community college and he scoped it. They are out of sync and the full 360 took 1/8th of a second. Is this too long a time lapse to put the 30-15 Power Maximizer type adapter into both outlets and then plug the 30A RV cord from the TT? What damage could this do if they are 1/16th of a second out of sync?

Furthermore, I finally took my Nikota 3500 with the dual breakers to my RV storage today just to try to run the 13,500 BTU AC. I plugged the 30A RV cord to one outlet with a HD adapter. The genset handled the AC alone just fine. I let it run awhile and then I plugged in a small dorm type fridge and it threw the breaker. Reminder now that I replaced the 13A breakers with 15A.

What I want to try next is to run a separate extension cord into the RV off the other outlet on a separate breaker and use this to plug my small fridge, microwave and/or coffee maker into. Would this be too much for the 3500 genset. What about just the fridge? Any thoughts?