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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JiminDenver wrote:
Professor
I can tell you that having the remote start is SWEETTTTTT. I replaced our original dual voltage 3500/4000 with a remote start version last week after finding out a 3100i just wasn't going to cut it up where I camp. Touch the button and it starts itself and then applies the load. Touch it again and it cuts the load and shuts off.
Curious as to why the 3100i wasn't going to cut it. Rope start? Elevation?
I don't remember if I ever posted this set-up or not. If it is a repeat please forgive me. I'm getting old and have what my son calls CRS.
Anyway, I mounted the remote start CAT5 unit below the passenger door in an open space of the Volvo. The flip down fairing normally covers it. The exhaust has been extended by attaching new pipe to the end of the muffler, making a U turn into a flex connector and then a 1" pipe terminating behind the truck cab. When moving I have the 30 amp plug attached to the camper thru the transfer switch in the camper. With the remote I can start or stop the generator running down the road or sitting in a campground. If it is one of those hot days I can pre-start the AC in the camper to cool the walls and contents down before stopping. When we are in the camper and using power from the Volvo mounted genset you cannot hear it at all. The exhaust routing and surrounding foam/fairing make the thing amazingly quiet.
Yes... the remote electric start is sweet. Now, if I could only convert the thing to run off of diesel and eliminate the gasoline can. That project would not be as easy as a LPG conversion. Guess it will have to stay gasoline powered :(.
Good to see Ron (fellow traveler) actually make an open post ;) We may be somewhere close to you this summer.
Later...
