3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
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Last Sunday I got a Nikota 3500W genset (JF200 eng)
with no warranty, but new, for only $150.
At such a good price I had to get it.
(@SoCal computer swap meet)
As soon as we got home I had to check it for proper operation.
(actually, he gave me a same 1-day warranty)
The air cleaner seems generous in area and the
muffler is good sized and relatively quiet.
At least it looked good to me and for the price
its almost unbelieveable.
Next came an actual load test.
Added a gallon of 87octane and drained out the
excessive oil in the crankcase.
It started 2nd pull and seemed to hum away ok.
(quieter than I expected but no match for the
Honda EU 3000 -and cost 10 times more)
This unit is wired for (2) 120v receps in parallel.
So we put a 1500w heater into each socket.
It seemed to be happy with them, but, of course,
working harder. Still maintained about 116vac
and 60-61cps with that 3000w load.
I did not run it long that way.
Instead, opted to give it a more humane breakin.
With about 1 gallon of gas left in the tank
I left it to run until it was out of gas.
Took about 3.5hrs to use that up @no load.
Since this is just for emergency power, when
the Ken Lay types decide to screw Californians
again on power, at least
I won't be without lights and cooling (evap)! :)
I was told that the reason these were so cheap
was they (about 18 of 'em) were bought from
auction when Nikota closed up shop.
Thanks to all for the informative posts on this genset.
Pres
with no warranty, but new, for only $150.
At such a good price I had to get it.
(@SoCal computer swap meet)
As soon as we got home I had to check it for proper operation.
(actually, he gave me a same 1-day warranty)
The air cleaner seems generous in area and the
muffler is good sized and relatively quiet.
At least it looked good to me and for the price
its almost unbelieveable.
Next came an actual load test.
Added a gallon of 87octane and drained out the
excessive oil in the crankcase.
It started 2nd pull and seemed to hum away ok.
(quieter than I expected but no match for the
Honda EU 3000 -and cost 10 times more)
This unit is wired for (2) 120v receps in parallel.
So we put a 1500w heater into each socket.
It seemed to be happy with them, but, of course,
working harder. Still maintained about 116vac
and 60-61cps with that 3000w load.
I did not run it long that way.
Instead, opted to give it a more humane breakin.
With about 1 gallon of gas left in the tank
I left it to run until it was out of gas.
Took about 3.5hrs to use that up @no load.
Since this is just for emergency power, when
the Ken Lay types decide to screw Californians
again on power, at least
I won't be without lights and cooling (evap)! :)
I was told that the reason these were so cheap
was they (about 18 of 'em) were bought from
auction when Nikota closed up shop.
Thanks to all for the informative posts on this genset.
Pres
