3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

Here is some information for everyone. I just bought a 3300watt 220/120 volt 6.5 HP Honda clone generator and it is as quiet as my former Honda 2500 watt unit. It was a great value for the money at 306.00. One thing I found out was that if you wanted the FULL 120 volt amperage you had to flip BOTH 15 amp circuit breakers to the ON position to get the generator's full 120 volt amperage. IF I just selected 1 circuit breaker to the on position to run a high amperage draw acessory like the the air conditioner the single circuit breaker would "flip" to to the off position. When I turned BOTH circuit breakers to the on position the air conditionerr would run just fine plus it would run the fridge, TV, and Tv, etc. When I flipped the voltage selector switch to the 220 volt position naturally both circuit breakers had to be flipped to the "ON" position and you connected your 220 volt source to the now activated 220 plug. What I did do is I added a female 120volt 30 amp RV receptacle giving me a dedicated receptacle for my MH's power plug. So now I got a twist lock 220, standard 120 and a 30 amp RV receptacle. Pretty simple upgrade.

What I really wondered about was why the 220 volt receptacle was just like a standard 120 volt receptacle in your house. Looking at this generator you would think it just had 2 120 volt receptacles if you didn't notice a 220/120 switch and a labels identifiing whch plug is for what voltage. I changed the 220 volt receptacle to a bonified 220 volt twist lock since I am not aware of ANY 220 volt appliance that uses a 120 pulg for 220 volts.
Somebody screwed up bigtime on that one. All receptcles checked out correctly on my Fluke multimeter. Now there is NO possibilty of plugging in a 120 volt tool into the 120 volt receptacle running 220 volts. IT is Amazing they hooked it up wrong in Chinaland like that.