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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One quick question for all of you Champion generator owners. Has anyone been able to run a welder with it? I asked the Professor a while back and his answer was that this type generator could only run an 85A Arc Welder. Well, today as Mr Wizard stated, it is well over 105 here in Los Angeles, and I was crazy enough to wear a heavy jacket for a few minutes to run a test.
I have an arc welder that works both with 120V and 240V depending on how you wire the plug. I fired my champion, let it run for a few minutes and then tried to weld some 1/8" steel using all three outputs from the generator, the 20A plug, the RV plug and the 240V plug. In all cases the generator bogged down big time within 3 or 4 seconds of striking an arc.
I thought I read somewhere in these 600 pages that actually Mr Wizard was able to run his wire welder with his champion just fine. Am I wrong?
I have an arc welder that works both with 120V and 240V depending on how you wire the plug. I fired my champion, let it run for a few minutes and then tried to weld some 1/8" steel using all three outputs from the generator, the 20A plug, the RV plug and the 240V plug. In all cases the generator bogged down big time within 3 or 4 seconds of striking an arc.
I thought I read somewhere in these 600 pages that actually Mr Wizard was able to run his wire welder with his champion just fine. Am I wrong?
