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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New member here. I joined just because of this valuable thread. I hope you can offer some words of advice.
I have purchased a Powerpro 5500 from Pep Boys. The first one was DOA out of the box. PB exchanged without a problem. It must have been an older model as it had a pair of 23A breakers and a voltmeter on the panel. The exchange has a pair of pushbutton resetable breakers (20A each according to the schematic) and indicator lights instead of a voltmeter.
Fired up the second unit, ran 500W work light, and a small (1 gal) air compressor, no problems. Thinking that if the genset would start and run a 10" miter saw, it would start and run anything in the house. It killed it, no AC, no popped breakers.
Wen sent a new voltage regulator and all seems right. Did not try the miter saw, but was able to run a 1500W heater, the 500W light and start and run the household fridge.
Is it possible that the miter saw was too much of an inductive load? I am concerned because I am hoping to use this to power a gas fired forced air furnace in the house. I think I saw a reference to a "hard start" modification somewhere in this thread, but can't find it now.
Any comments or suggestions would be welcome.
The Caveman
I have purchased a Powerpro 5500 from Pep Boys. The first one was DOA out of the box. PB exchanged without a problem. It must have been an older model as it had a pair of 23A breakers and a voltmeter on the panel. The exchange has a pair of pushbutton resetable breakers (20A each according to the schematic) and indicator lights instead of a voltmeter.
Fired up the second unit, ran 500W work light, and a small (1 gal) air compressor, no problems. Thinking that if the genset would start and run a 10" miter saw, it would start and run anything in the house. It killed it, no AC, no popped breakers.
Wen sent a new voltage regulator and all seems right. Did not try the miter saw, but was able to run a 1500W heater, the 500W light and start and run the household fridge.
Is it possible that the miter saw was too much of an inductive load? I am concerned because I am hoping to use this to power a gas fired forced air furnace in the house. I think I saw a reference to a "hard start" modification somewhere in this thread, but can't find it now.
Any comments or suggestions would be welcome.
The Caveman
