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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I'm back from the road trip.
After JB Welding the spark plug boot, I waited until Albuquerque to crank it up. It started and ran fine, and never missed a beat the rest of the way home to Georgia. It was running about 8-10 hours per day, constant, for four days.
I had two hiccups with the air conditioner:
One morning, I neglected to switch the fridge and water heater to Gas-only before hitting the road. At some point, that caused the 20amp breaker in the TT to trip. (The gen just kept on running.) Reset it, and didn't have that problem again.
The last day of driving was in 97 to 104 degree heat. Everything ran fine most of the day. However, some time between 2pm-3pm, the last hour of my trip, the A/C "locked up." The fan was running, but just warm air coming out. Since I was home, I climbed up and pulled the shroud. The compressor was very hot, and the coolant lines were, too. Nothing was iced over, quite the opposite. But after letting things cool down, it started up and began cooling again just fine. The gen was running along fine the whole time.
While it was running, even with 100 degree temps, the interior of the TT was being cooled to around 77-78. The thermostat was probably set around 78-80. Maybe I should have left it lower, so it didn't cycle, but I guess I was worried about it icing up. I didn't have the problem of drawing so much current that the gen died, but it sure acted as if it had a starting capacitor problem. (Same way my unit at home did when the starting cap died.) So, a hard-start kit is probably in the cards for me.
As for the generator, I continued to have problems with the oil being pulled back through the air cleaner, but other than having to top off every other day, it didn't seem to cause any other problems.
I'm beginning to think that my issues out in CO and UT had more to do with the broken spark plug boot...I wish I had fixed it sooner so that I could be sure.
I did notice one other thing: When I first started the gen in the morning, it had a nice, mellow, not TOO loud sound. But after running for a while and getting thoroughly hot, it seemed louder, and definitely more harsh. Not a huge difference in sound, but enough to notice.
After JB Welding the spark plug boot, I waited until Albuquerque to crank it up. It started and ran fine, and never missed a beat the rest of the way home to Georgia. It was running about 8-10 hours per day, constant, for four days.
I had two hiccups with the air conditioner:
One morning, I neglected to switch the fridge and water heater to Gas-only before hitting the road. At some point, that caused the 20amp breaker in the TT to trip. (The gen just kept on running.) Reset it, and didn't have that problem again.
The last day of driving was in 97 to 104 degree heat. Everything ran fine most of the day. However, some time between 2pm-3pm, the last hour of my trip, the A/C "locked up." The fan was running, but just warm air coming out. Since I was home, I climbed up and pulled the shroud. The compressor was very hot, and the coolant lines were, too. Nothing was iced over, quite the opposite. But after letting things cool down, it started up and began cooling again just fine. The gen was running along fine the whole time.
While it was running, even with 100 degree temps, the interior of the TT was being cooled to around 77-78. The thermostat was probably set around 78-80. Maybe I should have left it lower, so it didn't cycle, but I guess I was worried about it icing up. I didn't have the problem of drawing so much current that the gen died, but it sure acted as if it had a starting capacitor problem. (Same way my unit at home did when the starting cap died.) So, a hard-start kit is probably in the cards for me.
As for the generator, I continued to have problems with the oil being pulled back through the air cleaner, but other than having to top off every other day, it didn't seem to cause any other problems.
I'm beginning to think that my issues out in CO and UT had more to do with the broken spark plug boot...I wish I had fixed it sooner so that I could be sure.
I did notice one other thing: When I first started the gen in the morning, it had a nice, mellow, not TOO loud sound. But after running for a while and getting thoroughly hot, it seemed louder, and definitely more harsh. Not a huge difference in sound, but enough to notice.
