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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Just a quick "hit and run" post. Day 9 of our trip to the Four Corners area with the Champion on the tongue of the TT. Once we started to hit some altitude, say, above 6,000 ft., the Champion will no longer run the A/C. With everything off, and the fan running for a bit, as soon as the compressor tries to kick on, the generator bogs and dies.
Also, oil is still being sucked out of the valve cover and into the air cleaner. I now suspect it may be the air currents around the tongue while going down the road.
Gas tends to seep out of the area around the fuel gauge, too. But, obviously this gen wasn't built for this kind of abuse, so I'm not complaining.
But the generator HAD still been running at altitude, and we were just running the A/C fan while underway. But then, the gen was still dying after a while.
That may be because the spark plug boot broke. I'm having trouble finding a decent replacement. No auto parts or hardware stores in Cortez, CO had anything. ATV and small engine shops closed on Sunday. Maybe I'll be able to find something in Durango on Monday. Meantime, I'm going to try JB Welding it back together.
It's starting to appear to me that the Champion is not necessarily a good "run while underway" solution. There's a reason those Onans cost so much, I guess. Still, if I'm able to fix the boot, and get the gen to run the A/C again once we hit the plains heading East, I'll be happy.
Also, oil is still being sucked out of the valve cover and into the air cleaner. I now suspect it may be the air currents around the tongue while going down the road.
Gas tends to seep out of the area around the fuel gauge, too. But, obviously this gen wasn't built for this kind of abuse, so I'm not complaining.
But the generator HAD still been running at altitude, and we were just running the A/C fan while underway. But then, the gen was still dying after a while.
That may be because the spark plug boot broke. I'm having trouble finding a decent replacement. No auto parts or hardware stores in Cortez, CO had anything. ATV and small engine shops closed on Sunday. Maybe I'll be able to find something in Durango on Monday. Meantime, I'm going to try JB Welding it back together.
It's starting to appear to me that the Champion is not necessarily a good "run while underway" solution. There's a reason those Onans cost so much, I guess. Still, if I'm able to fix the boot, and get the gen to run the A/C again once we hit the plains heading East, I'll be happy.
