3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

Clark W. Griswold wrote:

MrWizard wrote:

youth4him wrote:
Now, why is that adapter any better than the pigtail I'd used for shore power?

it depends on the generator in use

some of these units where it is 120 ONLY
have the windings wired parallel ( standard procedure )
but the 2 windings are not wired together on both ends
instead the common/wht ends are wired together and the HOT/blk ends are each hooked to 1/2 of the duplex recp
in other words one socket on each winding,
and each socket gets only 1/2 of the total amperage available
to get all the amperage you rewire the generator recp OR use a duplex adapter
the generators with 120/240 option are wired diffeently
too be safe do these 2 things
start the genny and plug a volt meter into the 2 HOT sides of the 2 recp
if it reads 220 do NOT use the dual duplex adapter
if the voltage reads 120

If you have a total of 120 between the two than there would be no difference in the dual adapter and a single adapter?

I tried the dual adapter for a short time with the ELIM 3000 and it everything worked and there were no obvious problems.
I have not tried a single adapter to see if it would do the same.

you didn't comprehend , Everything I said

the outlet has to read 120 between the 2 HOT sides

if you try that on an out let in your house or one of the regular outlets in your RV, you will get a 0 ZERO reading
because they are connected togethere

reading a voltage across the TWO hot sides means they are split/seperate/each on a different winding that are wire in phase/parallel

it means half of the generator output is available at each outlet

NOT all the output on either outlet