3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

professor95 wrote:
These are some thoughts on the care and feeding of your Chinese built 3,000 watt genny.

When you are ready to shut down your genny, be sure to turn off or disconnect all significant loads before hitting the kill switch.

Many years ago, a guy named Ohm proved that as voltage drops to a specific load that current will rise. If, for example, you have your 13,500 BTU air conditioner running full throttle and turn off the generator, the voltage will drop as the engine comes to a coasting stop. During that interval, the current demand from the A/C will rise dramatically, putting an excessive load on the generator. This load is not good for the AVR or other components.

The best way to shut down the genny is to remove all loads first, let the genny run a few minutes unloaded to circulate air across the genny power head and then to hit the kill switch. Developing such habits will help your equipment to live another day.

I hope you have a great RV Memorial Day weekend - even at $4 a gallon for fuel. A bad day campin' is better than a good day working!

Just trying to understand things here and have gotten confused on a thing or two.
Won't a remote start kit make it impossible to stop or start a genny without a load? Doesn't this go against what is recommended? The only option to avoid starting the genset without a load is to pull the plug, start the genset and allow it to warm up then reinsert the plug. This makes the remote start a bad idea doesn't it?
I really don't understand things here. Some on here are worried about AVR failures yet ask for a option (remote electric start) that puts such a demand on the AVR that it makes its failure more of a possibility. Isn't this what we call a oxymoron? Am I missing something? Is there a way to use a remote electric start on a genset and not have to stop and start the genset with a load on it? Especially a genset that has to be retrofitted to remote electric start/stop to begin with?

Rick