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NoJive
Explorer
Jun 28, 2017

Generator not putting out enough wattage...I think

Newbie here, but I am posting because I cannot find my exact problem anywhere else. All I am finding is low voltage or no voltage issues. I have a Harbor Freight 4000 watt (3200 watt running) gene...
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PaulJ2
Explorer
Jul 18, 2017
NoJive wrote:
Ok, finally got to do some testing. With no load, I get around 117 volts, with a hair dryer running on max, I show 122 volts. Here is a video I took:

https://youtu.be/283RcOO75mo


After hearing the audio the generator's governor is not controlling the engine speed properly. It should stay at 3600 with increased load. The voltage increasing with the rpm decrease is the regulator over compensating for the speed drop off.
I believe the problem is with the engines governor.

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