Old & Slow wrote:
vandoc wrote:
I've had 2 of these Champion generators with a parallel kit for a month now. This past weekend I had problems with one of the generators starting. There was a great deal of resistance on the pull start, and I couldn't start it as a result. The 2nd generator has the burping issue that's been described here. I wound up returning both generators because of the issues. The units paralleled ran my 13,500 AC unit fine at 6,000 feet elevation. They would not run both the AC and microwave at the same time with eco mode off. I was considering returning the generators because of the burping issues; the last issue with pull start problems was enough to convince me to return them. These were the Red color with a build date of March 2011.
The idea of a bad batch, as mentioned in one of the recent posts, with the first production run will not fit in this case. The build date was 'March 2011'. The $64.000 question is*is 'why the burbing with some units and not others?' And the Champion 2000i handling starting a 10/11 amp saw or an A/C cycling. It has been stated somewhere, I do believe, the hard start issue has something to do with the EC Module. The modules are upgraded AVR's correct? Some owners with other brands of Chinese Inverters have uncovered P.Pots on the modules for adjustments, just like the AVR. So if the AVR failed in many cases, is it not possible we are having Module failures and will in the future??. The only brand (Kipor) that shows retail parts, to my knowledge, has a price of $500 just for the Inverter module. WoW. However, IIRC, the Kipor has totally different tech (like H@Y) than the Champion 2000i, right? I have never heard of H or Y module failure but there must be one somewhere?
Looking forward to a new and improved record from Champion. And retail listing of parts available.
I'm more curious than ever to hear how many Champion 2000i generators have defective EC Modules. The build date on the post above was march 2011 and now a new post with the same problem. Do these Champion 2000i gensets come from different factories perhaps.
Randle,
Don't forget you also had one defective Champion 2000i that had to to returned.
