DSchmidt_2000 wrote:
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?
I suspect the people who are happy with them haven't reached the failure time between 100 and 150 hours.
Evidence it's not putting out the same power? Less power to my 120 volt appliances - my blender slows; my box fan slows, and it stops charging my batteries worth a damn. The generator gets quieter toward the end of its life too, and eventually it won't even power my little TV.
SaltiDawg wrote:
There are a few youtube videos where self-proclaimed experts open up a brand new HF genny and show the steps to remove various components, sometimes finding some fasteners were not torqued at the factory during assembly. These folks then properly torque these fasteners and sometimes advocate thread locker such as Loctite.
I'm going to have to look those videos up. Tightening things down on some of them would be helpful at least in quieting them. Some of these things buzz, bang, and rattle like crazy right from the start. You can tell parts are loose. Bolts, nuts, & plates fall off or out of many of them. The last one was especially noisy. This most recent one is either particularly quiet, or it just seems that way in contrast.
The RV batteries had gotten so low on the last one that my little inverters would alarm and shut down when I tried to charge my phone. This newest one charged them up again pretty quickly.
BTW, I've gone through both the blue and red versions of the little genny. They paint them a different color and slapped a new brand sticker on them, but as far as I can tell, the red one are exactly like the blue ones were.
