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Re: 3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
I live in southeast Michigan, I purchased my Champion from Tractor Supply Co. It was $289 + tax. There used to be a Pep Boys over near Livonia, not sure if there still are some Pep Boy's around Michigan... as someone else mentioned... Murray's is of the same chain I think... tr0910 wrote: OK, we have oodles of info about the gensets, but now we need to know where to buy them. Pep Boys are not local, but I can get there if I have to. Tractor Supply I will check. Checkers I've never heard of. Home Depot on their web site doesn't list Champion, only Coleman, Briggs, and Pramac. Harbor Freight sells generators under their Chicago Electric brandname. Any ideas which one this is? It appears that Cabela's might have them, but at $400 rather than the sub $300 prices with Pep Boys. (see pricing from Pep Boys Black Friday ad below) PowerPRO 3500W Generator $50 MIR $229.98 PowerPRO 5500W Generator $50 MIR $329.98 PowerPRO 9000W Generator $100 MIR $449.98 Where are you guys buying your Champion Power Equipment generators? Tim in MI278Views0likes0CommentsRe: 3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
Yes... extension cords are a option. However, I do need 240V to my well pump... and pretty much have concluded that I can't run my well pump and most other things I need during a power outage all at the same time from the 3500 Watt generator. So, I would at least need a 25 foot(preferably 40 foot or more), 4 wire extension cord with a L14-30 type connectors on both ends, I'd have to wire my well pump up to a outlet that had the same type connector/box. I'd also need a adapter that took that L14-30 connector to a 120 volt layout for all my other stuff... Add all that up and I'm probably looking at around $150 minimum... and then I still have to be monkeying around plugging and unplugging things in the dark, etc... I'm leaning toward paying a bit more money and trying to come up with something that requires less manual work... like maybe only flipping a switch or two rather then swapping out extension cord adapters and such.303Views0likes0CommentsRe: 3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
Hey all... Thanks for this thread... I'm not really into RVing.... at least not yet. I was in the market for a emergency generator for my home, I was ready to part with $600-700 to buy a 6000 watt Pro Force generator... or something like it. I shopped around all the local stores and one of the last places I went(Tractor Supply Company) had the Champion 4000 for $289. I didn't know anything about it, till I found this forum when I did a search for information about the Champion. Anyway... I wound up purchasing the C46540 after reading of all the happy campers here who have them. My needs are perhaps slightly different then most of yours... I don't want to be in the dark next time my local power company's supply of power fails to reach me. Aside from my furnace, fridge, a few lights and a TV, one of my needs is to power a 240 volt 1/2HP submersible pump in a 130' well. I wasn't entirely sure how well this Champion would work for this pump. However I figured worse come to worse, I could trade this Champ for my dad's 5500 Watt Coleman if I couldn't run my pump with the Champion. What really is driving me nuts... It's going to cost me $200 at least to get the stuff I need to connect my $300 generator to my house... Darn... can't these Chinese include a hundred and fifty feet of 8/3 NM-B wire and a transfer switch for another $100?? :) OK, so I'm only partly joking... but wow, copper has gotten expensive. Probably all the fault of the booming Chinese industry, needing more copper wire to build more manufacturing plants to supply us with cheap generators and other stuff... I did a brief test tonight... and my Champion does operate my well pump, but it does cause a pretty good load on the Champ at startup... My plan is to not connect the pump when I have any other stuff running, other then maybe a light over the shower... I'm pretty happy that this little generator is capable of running this pump... also the generator doesn't seem to be much louder then my central air conditioning compressor is when it runs, and I know a 6000 watt (13HP) generator would have been... So, it looks like my dad is going to have to come and beg me if he should ever want to borrow my Champion for a RV trip... Thanks again for those that have contributed to this very informative thread on cheap 3000 watt generators...201Views0likes0Comments
