3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

professor95 wrote:

Old & Slow wrote:
My thought, maybe we can ask Mr. Cole to give us a 110v (only) genset. Maybe the rules of using this genset will aid in our use.

Mr. Wizard and I have one, the 40008 electric start.

This is Mr. Cole's word-for-word response to the grounding issue. He did not ask me to post this. Posting was my decision to enhance the issues surrounding the safe use of these portable gensets:

"(On the neutral bonding issue) ...... We agree with the professor and find the naysayers less credible than they want the public to think. My reference is to the electrical association IMSA. They may be right in the common household logic, but when it comes to the generators, they need to go back over the Generators 101, putting some well known and common logic into play."

"....... we will be issuing a chart of models soon and indicate the bonding and unbonded models. As I have mentioned, Home Depot has mandated we deliver our generators with a bonded neutral for their sales. At present they are the only vendor receving this. Even though generators over 5000w in performance for commercial work are required by OSHA to have a GFI and a bonded neutral, Home Depot is requiring all units to have GFI and bonded neutral for the 2008 model year."

"..... the copy indicating the bonded neutral was written for only the Home Depot units, since they want the neutral to be bonded on their generators. This same copy ended up in the Ultra Fab units (40008 Elec. start and 40010 non elect start . These both have floating neutrals or unbonded ) The Home Depot unit is model 40012 and DOES have a bonded neutral."

Hi Guys:
A newbie here trying to figure out what to power my 31 foot Laredo travel trailer with. The C46540 has caught my eye at $299 ($349 with a $50 rebate at Kragen, etc.)
Now you (Prof et al) are referring to a couple of 110v ONLY models 40080 & 40010 and maybe the HD model 40012. I went to the Champion website (www.cpeauto.com) and they don't list these new models. Where can I find them and/or information/specs about them?

BTW thank you so much for this site, the information is incredible and I can see that I am benefitting from many years of your combined wisdom and apparantly effective input to at least Champion for us RVr's. I just can't see spending $2K for a genset that will run my AC!!!!!

Any input is welcome...

BB