3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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More on the Amico 3300...wiring question and sound dampening attempt.
Tested a couple of other things tonight. Not much time to devote after work and family stuff...
Maybe the Professor or Mr. Wizard or anyone else who is familiar with electrical setups can help me figure this out. The book that came with the genset is a one-size fits all across their product line. Really general stuff. The schematic is NOT for my unit. So, in trying to figure out how this thing is wired I did the following:
There is a toggle switch on the front to switch between the 240 and 120 volt outlets. On the 120 side, I tested the top and bottom outlets independently and had about 125 volts on each one. Then I tested the hot side of both and got 0 volts (meter lead in the hot side of each outlet). I then tested each to ground (the bolt on the genset designated for grounding) and read about 58 volts? That might have been a fluke though. I didn't test the 240 volt side. Does that say anything about the way this thing is wired, at least on the 125 volt side? The specs say it has 240 at 15 amps and 125 at 30 amps. I am wondering if I make a adapter from 2-125 volt plugs to 1-30A RV plug, similar to the one some of you bought on eBay, tying the two plugs together inside the adapter, will that in theory give me 30 amps, based on the way the 125 volt plugs seem to be wired? Sorry for the long question. I have gotten a bit confused....
I tried a little experiment with quieting the gen last night. I had my wife stand about 7 yards away and I started the gen. She thinks it’s much quieter than our Generac unit. Anyway, I laid a piece of OSB siding on each of the short ends of the gen. Mild dampening of the sound. I then put a long piece of plywood siding along the long side of the gen facing my wife. She said she could hardly hear it. I swapped places with her and had her pull the side boards off then the long board. The side boards made a little difference but the long board across the front really made a huge difference in blocking the noise. I may just settle for this, take 3 pieces of ¾ plywood (heavy though) and hinge these to make a 3 panel divider. I would then put dowel pins in the top edge of the divider and lay an 8-12 deep piece of plywood there, which would slide over the wooden dowel rods, to make kind of a cap to help redirect the sound. What do you think? Reasonable or too much? Anyone else try another method?
Tested a couple of other things tonight. Not much time to devote after work and family stuff...
Maybe the Professor or Mr. Wizard or anyone else who is familiar with electrical setups can help me figure this out. The book that came with the genset is a one-size fits all across their product line. Really general stuff. The schematic is NOT for my unit. So, in trying to figure out how this thing is wired I did the following:
There is a toggle switch on the front to switch between the 240 and 120 volt outlets. On the 120 side, I tested the top and bottom outlets independently and had about 125 volts on each one. Then I tested the hot side of both and got 0 volts (meter lead in the hot side of each outlet). I then tested each to ground (the bolt on the genset designated for grounding) and read about 58 volts? That might have been a fluke though. I didn't test the 240 volt side. Does that say anything about the way this thing is wired, at least on the 125 volt side? The specs say it has 240 at 15 amps and 125 at 30 amps. I am wondering if I make a adapter from 2-125 volt plugs to 1-30A RV plug, similar to the one some of you bought on eBay, tying the two plugs together inside the adapter, will that in theory give me 30 amps, based on the way the 125 volt plugs seem to be wired? Sorry for the long question. I have gotten a bit confused....
I tried a little experiment with quieting the gen last night. I had my wife stand about 7 yards away and I started the gen. She thinks it’s much quieter than our Generac unit. Anyway, I laid a piece of OSB siding on each of the short ends of the gen. Mild dampening of the sound. I then put a long piece of plywood siding along the long side of the gen facing my wife. She said she could hardly hear it. I swapped places with her and had her pull the side boards off then the long board. The side boards made a little difference but the long board across the front really made a huge difference in blocking the noise. I may just settle for this, take 3 pieces of ¾ plywood (heavy though) and hinge these to make a 3 panel divider. I would then put dowel pins in the top edge of the divider and lay an 8-12 deep piece of plywood there, which would slide over the wooden dowel rods, to make kind of a cap to help redirect the sound. What do you think? Reasonable or too much? Anyone else try another method?
