Need generator advice
We have a car hauler with a 50 amp male plug, and a Powerhouse 6500 Generator with a 30 amp 120V receptacle, and a 30 amp 120/240V receptacle. My question is: What type of adapter do we need, and ...
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acatlover13 wrote:
We just used the trailer/generator again this weekend and it worked pretty good for a day and a half. Then it started acting like it was struggling/starving for fuel. It didn't matter if we were using the 110 side or the 240 side. It struggled even when it had no load at all. We've done every scheduled maintenance we were supposed to. Changed the oil at 5 hours, then again at 50 hours. We checked and cleaned the air filter at 60 hours. We cleaned the spark arrester at 102 hours. We ran it on ethanol free fuel for the first 20 or so hours, but then we couldn't find it so used regular pump gas (we used the under 10% ethanol regular - per the owners manual). We even changed the fuse and the spark plug. We are now at a loss. It is obviously a generator problem.
I don't know if you are operating it in cold temperatures or not. I've had throttle plates frost up, from all that water that is in fuel now, and the cure was to enclose the intake area to capture some engine heat. Due to evaporative cooling, that frost can form even when air temps are slightly above the freezing point.
