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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Maybe you can call the supplier who advertises all parts in stock and get some sort of replacement parts cost breakdown. That would be extremely interesting!
Hmmmmmmm -
Don't want to sound jaded here, but -
Walkers, where have you seen that suggestion before?
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JC
JC,
Funny you should mention that because I was going to follow up on the issue of it not having the 30amp RV recept and while I was at it brought up spare parts. If anybody doesnt want to read the e-bay dirty laundry move on to the next post.
In the interest of disclosure here it is... At least a partial victory for you bay haters... enjoy! Question about my dilema on the bottom.
My first e-mail sent monday night... went something like this (excerpts to shorten it)
"my only issue is that it did not happen to come with the "built in 30 AMP RV (TT-30) receptacle for direct plug in for most RV's." as the listing states.
You may not consider that a major issue, however that configuration is how I expected to use it and was a major consideration in bidding. I am hoping that there is a way you can send me the RV panel for me to install.
I may be interested in purchasing some spare parts for it ie:..."
I get the playing stupid and offer to buy me off reply.
"the rv amp is installed in the unit. if you need a plug in then only place to get that adapter plug in is at radio shack. they are 15 dollars. we can credit you that amount of money. let me know if i can further assist you."
Radio shack... gimme a break! RV amp installed? Watcha talking bout willis?
"The unit you sent has two 15 amp standard household outlets. This is copied and pasted directly from your listing, not something I just made up... "It also has a built in 30 AMP RV (TT-30) receptacle for direct plug in for most RV's" The pictures in the manual show it along with one standard outlet if you dont know what one looks like. It allows the full output of the generator which may exceed 20 amps to be availabe at the RV receptacle. A 15 amp outlet is just that and trying to pull more power out of it is obviously asking for trouble.
Your listing also states... "We are always fully stocked on all parts for our GX-3000 watt digital generator if you ever need them in the future.". So I would assume that you stock the correct RV panel along with the parts I asked about.
If your supplier did not send generators with the configuration you expected then you are going to have nothing but problems with the RV market you are targeting with your listing as it is."
Reply, not getting what I want but there is a refund option.
"we have only the parts that you have on your generator. we can credit you money if you need to buy that 15 dollar adapter. you were the first one we sold to so we have fixed a couple things in our site. there is a built in 30 amp however there is no plug in recepticle. we carry every part that you see on your generator.
any other part we can credit you money for you to buy or i will have ups pick up the unit.
let me know before your 30 day return warranty expires."
Now I know some of you want to say take the refund and run but that is just not the direction I care to take, besides I made a small hole in the case for the fuel mod I will detail later.
There are a few ways I can deal with this situation from here and I could use some input.
1. I could plug into it with an adapter like I tested it, it is a pretty heavy duty one and may be able to take the current but I dont know about the recept. My most severe draw which would be rare would be running a single coleman mach a/c out of my two which has a load share/shed system to be able to run from a 30a service on my 06 fleetwood 32'. I dont know what btu they are but I am sure it is not the big ones. The most draw I have measured from it is about 1650 watts. I can shed any other load and this would probably only be at night for sleeping when it is hot and humid fridge on gas and 130w solar keeps the batts up pretty well. Do you think I can safely draw that thru the adapter on a single outlet?
2. I have seen an adapter block for a honda that takes the two outlets and combines them into a 30amp recept for full power. I dont know if my outlet config would match up so I would have to look into it, but do you think these outlets could be tied together to safely get full output from this gen?
Although I would probably do it by taking a 30a female pig tail I have and grommet and strain relief it thru the panel and solder and heat shrink them all tied together.
What do you think? I will ask him for a parts price list in my reply.
Thanks in advance for your input.
This is the gen load running an a/c, moho was in the garage so it wasnt working quite as hard as it normally would.
Hmmmmmmm -
Don't want to sound jaded here, but -
Walkers, where have you seen that suggestion before?
~
JC
JC,
Funny you should mention that because I was going to follow up on the issue of it not having the 30amp RV recept and while I was at it brought up spare parts. If anybody doesnt want to read the e-bay dirty laundry move on to the next post.
In the interest of disclosure here it is... At least a partial victory for you bay haters... enjoy! Question about my dilema on the bottom.
My first e-mail sent monday night... went something like this (excerpts to shorten it)
"my only issue is that it did not happen to come with the "built in 30 AMP RV (TT-30) receptacle for direct plug in for most RV's." as the listing states.
You may not consider that a major issue, however that configuration is how I expected to use it and was a major consideration in bidding. I am hoping that there is a way you can send me the RV panel for me to install.
I may be interested in purchasing some spare parts for it ie:..."
I get the playing stupid and offer to buy me off reply.
"the rv amp is installed in the unit. if you need a plug in then only place to get that adapter plug in is at radio shack. they are 15 dollars. we can credit you that amount of money. let me know if i can further assist you."
Radio shack... gimme a break! RV amp installed? Watcha talking bout willis?
"The unit you sent has two 15 amp standard household outlets. This is copied and pasted directly from your listing, not something I just made up... "It also has a built in 30 AMP RV (TT-30) receptacle for direct plug in for most RV's" The pictures in the manual show it along with one standard outlet if you dont know what one looks like. It allows the full output of the generator which may exceed 20 amps to be availabe at the RV receptacle. A 15 amp outlet is just that and trying to pull more power out of it is obviously asking for trouble.
Your listing also states... "We are always fully stocked on all parts for our GX-3000 watt digital generator if you ever need them in the future.". So I would assume that you stock the correct RV panel along with the parts I asked about.
If your supplier did not send generators with the configuration you expected then you are going to have nothing but problems with the RV market you are targeting with your listing as it is."
Reply, not getting what I want but there is a refund option.
"we have only the parts that you have on your generator. we can credit you money if you need to buy that 15 dollar adapter. you were the first one we sold to so we have fixed a couple things in our site. there is a built in 30 amp however there is no plug in recepticle. we carry every part that you see on your generator.
any other part we can credit you money for you to buy or i will have ups pick up the unit.
let me know before your 30 day return warranty expires."
Now I know some of you want to say take the refund and run but that is just not the direction I care to take, besides I made a small hole in the case for the fuel mod I will detail later.
There are a few ways I can deal with this situation from here and I could use some input.
1. I could plug into it with an adapter like I tested it, it is a pretty heavy duty one and may be able to take the current but I dont know about the recept. My most severe draw which would be rare would be running a single coleman mach a/c out of my two which has a load share/shed system to be able to run from a 30a service on my 06 fleetwood 32'. I dont know what btu they are but I am sure it is not the big ones. The most draw I have measured from it is about 1650 watts. I can shed any other load and this would probably only be at night for sleeping when it is hot and humid fridge on gas and 130w solar keeps the batts up pretty well. Do you think I can safely draw that thru the adapter on a single outlet?
2. I have seen an adapter block for a honda that takes the two outlets and combines them into a 30amp recept for full power. I dont know if my outlet config would match up so I would have to look into it, but do you think these outlets could be tied together to safely get full output from this gen?
Although I would probably do it by taking a 30a female pig tail I have and grommet and strain relief it thru the panel and solder and heat shrink them all tied together.
What do you think? I will ask him for a parts price list in my reply.
Thanks in advance for your input.
This is the gen load running an a/c, moho was in the garage so it wasnt working quite as hard as it normally would.
