3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

professor95 wrote:

toprudder wrote:
Perhaps isolating the ground *** for troubleshooting purposes only *** would be worth trying.

Bob just turned on a light in the back of my head (a dim one).

Are you absolutely positive you are pushing 110-120 VAC out of the generator and not 220-240 VAC?

You see, (for example) if you have a resistive load of 10 ohms and apply 120 volts your current will be 12 amps (E/R=I). But, if we apply 240 volts to the same resistance our current will rise to 24 amps! (240/10 = 24). Under that condition the generator would bog down immediately.

Just double check the voltage at the outlet you are using to be sure we don't have a backwards wired generator.

I tried switching from 120 to 240 via a three posistion switch, (110 / off / 240) on the generator. As soon as I went to off (and then 240), the generator stopped bogging down and the ampmeter said it was delivering power again, but I suspected this was because power was now being routed to the unused 240 plug. I verified no power was going to the trailer through the 110 plug I had the adapter in.

How would I test the output of the plugs? I've got my ohmmeter, but am more than a little cautious of sticking those pos/neg probes into an outlet that could shock the bejesus out of me.