3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

toprudder wrote:
The digital display is the feature I really like. If AC power is not an option, I understand why you would want the battery-only units.

I bought the AC powered battery-backed unit for my camper. I experimented with running 12v dc to the internal battery connection, and it worked very well, so I mounted the unit permanently and ran 12v dc to it, no AC. It uses less than 10ma of current, which is negligible. When I am running the generator, I can press the "peak" button and it will show me the max level of CO since I last reset it. This way I can instantly tell if I have a CO problem, long before the alarm will go off.

Oh, a link where you can buy. I did a quick search:

http://www.target.com/gp/search.html/602-4470063-3814256?field-keywords=kidde_900_0076&AFID=yahoocom&LNM=kidde_900_0076&LID=13628230&ref=tgt_adv_XSYH0655

Bob R.

Bob R.,

Thanks for the additional info and the link.

While researching placement of CO alarms, there was one web site that warned against testing a CO alarm near a car's exhaust. It said that doing that could damage the sensitive CO detection. Glad I found that tiny tidbit since I planned to test the CO alarms I get that way. A company sells canned carbon monoxide that is safe to use for testing the CO detection. Maybe this might help others from testing near a car's exhaust.

Decided to definitely go with the plan to put our generator in our carport and setup an exhaust pipe going 3 feet above the roof height. Will permanently install solid exhaust pipe for the vertical part and run flexible exhaust pipe from the generator to the vertical only when in use. No idea yet on how to attach the flexible exhaust pipe to the Champion C46540's muffler. Looks like some major head scratching ahead.

Thanks,
Skyzoomer