3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

cuchara.red wrote:
Newbie here...

I've been following this forum for awhile and find it fascinating. So much knowledge! And, for me, so much confusion. I've got a small Class C ('91 Toyota Dolphin) and would love to be able to use one of these GenSets with it. However, a more pressing need is to be able to run my 120 vac wire-feed welder off the same unit (not at the same time of course). The welder is a Lincoln ProMig 140 and only has a 15 amp plug, not the 20 amp plug with right-angle blades. It appears to work fine on a 15 amp garage circuit, even tho' a 20 amp circuit is recommended. Would one of these Chinese GenSets of 3000-3500 surge watts work with my welder? I need to be able to do some light welding up at the farm where I have no electricity. The welder is rated at 19.9 volts at 90 amps (20% duty cycle). In theory the welder will put out up to 140 amps but everyone that knows anything about them seems to think that is more than a little optimistic. Hope I've given enough info for the Professor or someone else to help me out.

I was at Pep Boys today looking at their Wen Power Pro 3500. It has one duplex 120 vac outlet and one 4-hole 120/240 vac outlet, with a switch between the two outlets to select either the duplex 120 outlet or the 120/240 vac outlet. Professor, do you know if this particular unit has the Honda clone engine and is it capable of putting all its amperage into one 120 vac outlet? It seems to me that the same requirements for powering a camper/TT/MH would also let the genset power my welder. Is this reasonable?

Thanks to this forum I've gone from being highly skeptical of the Chinese GenSets to being anxious to try one out - if it'll support my welder as well as the RV. Thankie again.

My generator will and has run manytimes my harbor freight 130 flux/gas MIG welder. I suppose it will weld together whatever you want if you can. I always try for more than the duty cycle will allow and the gen just keeps up with it.

Kevin
The Right Lane