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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Hi All,
Wow! This must be the definitive site on the internet for these Chinese made generators! Thanks to professor for starting this thread and to all that have contributed their time and knowledge.
I picked up a WEN Power Power Pro generator from PEP Boys last week and finally had a chance to try it this past Saturday. Gave it a quick once over and the only thing I found was that one of the rubber feet on the frame was loose. Everything else looked good with no other loose parts.
Put in oil and gas and it fired right up. I let it run 4 or 5 minutes and plugged in a 100 watt lamp. So far so good. I spent the next 10 or 15 minutes plugging in various low power loads (house fan, small battery charger, UPS, etc.) and it just purred along. Okay, the UPS didn’t like it but I didn’t expect it to, it would have just been a bonus if it had worked.
I unplugged everything and plugged in a 1500 watt heater. Whoa! Generator started surging like crazy. It would not settle down until I turned the heater off. Turned the heater back on and it started surging again. I moved the choke from the open position to the halfway position and the generator settled back into a steady purr. I moved the choke back to the open position and the surging started again.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? Also, does anyone have any experience with WEN Power customer support?
Thanks in advance.
Earl
I should have said it's the 3500D, 3000 watts continuous 3500 watts peak.
Wow! This must be the definitive site on the internet for these Chinese made generators! Thanks to professor for starting this thread and to all that have contributed their time and knowledge.
I picked up a WEN Power Power Pro generator from PEP Boys last week and finally had a chance to try it this past Saturday. Gave it a quick once over and the only thing I found was that one of the rubber feet on the frame was loose. Everything else looked good with no other loose parts.
Put in oil and gas and it fired right up. I let it run 4 or 5 minutes and plugged in a 100 watt lamp. So far so good. I spent the next 10 or 15 minutes plugging in various low power loads (house fan, small battery charger, UPS, etc.) and it just purred along. Okay, the UPS didn’t like it but I didn’t expect it to, it would have just been a bonus if it had worked.
I unplugged everything and plugged in a 1500 watt heater. Whoa! Generator started surging like crazy. It would not settle down until I turned the heater off. Turned the heater back on and it started surging again. I moved the choke from the open position to the halfway position and the generator settled back into a steady purr. I moved the choke back to the open position and the surging started again.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? Also, does anyone have any experience with WEN Power customer support?
Thanks in advance.
Earl
I should have said it's the 3500D, 3000 watts continuous 3500 watts peak.
