problem is Not the copper windings
residual magnetism of the core could fail from heat fatigue
but as long as there was enough to 'excite' the core on startup the generator would continue to make power
a likely cause of failure is the 'diode & capacitor' used to supply the Dc field of the armature winding, heat is a killer of cheap capacitors, lack of field strength would mean lower output voltage
we are not there, we do not even know if it is maintaining full 3600 RPM's
any change/loss of speed would reduce power/voltage and watts
how big is the charger/converter ? being powered by the genset
DSchmidt_2000 wrote:
Something does not make sense and I don't see any root cause analysis being done as to why your units are crapping out. Just saying they're cheap doesn't cut it.
A lot of people have been happy with these. As long as the engine can put out power and the electronics (capacitor?) works, I don't see why it should not continue to work. There is not much to them. Why would copper winding give out after time?
For a 2-stroke, after about 100 hours don't you have to clean out/decarbon the exhaust?
What is your evidence that it is making less and less power over time? I don't see where you mentioned that. Is the engine not running?
