3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

The Champion is rated at 76db whereas the Elim is 67db. The Champion is indeed too loud for campgrounds or camping within 50 to 100 yards from anything other than trees! Believe me I know, I have boondocked with my Champion a few hundred times in the last year. (reliable generator though). Back to your question about my RV converter, it is a Triad-Utrad model TU 570-2. I'm not sure of its output amperage as I have no listing/description of it in my Vogue manual. I can probably find out though if it is critical.

Ouch! Doesn't look like my track record has been too good this week. I sort of blew it on the ferroresonate converter concept. Still scratching my head on that one. Then I blew it on the Champion noise level. I vaguely remember now that it was rated louder on their web site but do not recall anyone coming forward to say it was really that loud. Now I am wondering what the difference is between the Champion and, for example, my ELM3000. Maybe it is in the muffler - I just don't know. The good part is that I learned a lot this week on the forum, and I thank those who contributed better info.

I think Mel pretty well put it all together on the Triad-Utrad converter. I did some searching and came up with the same info he pointed out. As such, it does look like you will have a problem with this converter and a generator that is not rock solid on frequency. Right off hand, I would venture to guess the Kippor Sine Master or Honda 2000/3000 inverters would be better to power such a converter. Perhaps you might want to carry a conventional battery charger with you and just bypass the converter?

I'll drop a note to Paul Cole at Champion on the noise level issue to see what his response is. He has been pretty good about addressing such issues. Ironically, it was the input from this forum that led to the creation of the RV ready unit they are now producing. Maybe if we push the noise issue some changes will be made there as well.

As far as the question about an ELIM unit being made RV ready, I don't have a clue what they are planning on now. I no longer have a contact at ELIM International and have not had any new info from them since last fall.

But, I do believe this forum has been influential with several manufacturers and importers. While I have no proof, I strongly suspect our input had something to do with the WEN PowerPro changing over to a design that would give full current at 120 volts from a single outlet.

Keep telling the importers what you want...... without that input, nothing will probably ever change.