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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Hey all... Thanks for this thread... I'm not really into RVing.... at least not yet. I was in the market for a emergency generator for my home, I was ready to part with $600-700 to buy a 6000 watt Pro Force generator... or something like it. I shopped around all the local stores and one of the last places I went(Tractor Supply Company) had the Champion 4000 for $289. I didn't know anything about it, till I found this forum when I did a search for information about the Champion.
Anyway... I wound up purchasing the C46540 after reading of all the happy campers here who have them.
My needs are perhaps slightly different then most of yours... I don't want to be in the dark next time my local power company's supply of power fails to reach me. Aside from my furnace, fridge, a few lights and a TV, one of my needs is to power a 240 volt 1/2HP submersible pump in a 130' well. I wasn't entirely sure how well this Champion would work for this pump. However I figured worse come to worse, I could trade this Champ for my dad's 5500 Watt Coleman if I couldn't run my pump with the Champion.
What really is driving me nuts... It's going to cost me $200 at least to get the stuff I need to connect my $300 generator to my house... Darn... can't these Chinese include a hundred and fifty feet of 8/3 NM-B wire and a transfer switch for another $100?? :) OK, so I'm only partly joking... but wow, copper has gotten expensive. Probably all the fault of the booming Chinese industry, needing more copper wire to build more manufacturing plants to supply us with cheap generators and other stuff...
I did a brief test tonight... and my Champion does operate my well pump, but it does cause a pretty good load on the Champ at startup... My plan is to not connect the pump when I have any other stuff running, other then maybe a light over the shower... I'm pretty happy that this little generator is capable of running this pump... also the generator doesn't seem to be much louder then my central air conditioning compressor is when it runs, and I know a 6000 watt (13HP) generator would have been... So, it looks like my dad is going to have to come and beg me if he should ever want to borrow my Champion for a RV trip...
Thanks again for those that have contributed to this very informative thread on cheap 3000 watt generators...
Anyway... I wound up purchasing the C46540 after reading of all the happy campers here who have them.
My needs are perhaps slightly different then most of yours... I don't want to be in the dark next time my local power company's supply of power fails to reach me. Aside from my furnace, fridge, a few lights and a TV, one of my needs is to power a 240 volt 1/2HP submersible pump in a 130' well. I wasn't entirely sure how well this Champion would work for this pump. However I figured worse come to worse, I could trade this Champ for my dad's 5500 Watt Coleman if I couldn't run my pump with the Champion.
What really is driving me nuts... It's going to cost me $200 at least to get the stuff I need to connect my $300 generator to my house... Darn... can't these Chinese include a hundred and fifty feet of 8/3 NM-B wire and a transfer switch for another $100?? :) OK, so I'm only partly joking... but wow, copper has gotten expensive. Probably all the fault of the booming Chinese industry, needing more copper wire to build more manufacturing plants to supply us with cheap generators and other stuff...
I did a brief test tonight... and my Champion does operate my well pump, but it does cause a pretty good load on the Champ at startup... My plan is to not connect the pump when I have any other stuff running, other then maybe a light over the shower... I'm pretty happy that this little generator is capable of running this pump... also the generator doesn't seem to be much louder then my central air conditioning compressor is when it runs, and I know a 6000 watt (13HP) generator would have been... So, it looks like my dad is going to have to come and beg me if he should ever want to borrow my Champion for a RV trip...
Thanks again for those that have contributed to this very informative thread on cheap 3000 watt generators...
