12-25-2018, 10:22 AM
8 month short and sweet review - light usage(approx 50 hours)
Price point: $171 store pick up @Walmart.
Short and sweet part. At this price($150ish), buy it and baby it like a newborn if your @3000ft elevation or less(manual states 3000ft or less).
My experiences.
-Opened box, read instructions(kinda), filled with oil. Ran it for about a half hour and swapped out oil. Oil was darkish. Ran it for another hour and swapped oil again(might be Overkill but I knew I had to baby it from other reviews), oil looked good. Filled it with a synthetic oil(I plan on using synthetic here on out for this).
-Max altitude used was 9300ft. Used it with a 25amp charger. Ran fine at first, but after 15-30 minutes bogged out and started blowing smoke(oil). Tried this a few times, this was the result every time(about 4 tries). Was able to run charger for hours if I went with 10amps.
-About 5000ft is where I could use batttery charger at full(25amps) for hours(2-3 never needed it more than that) without it blowing smoke. Generator was "working hard" though.
-@1000ft works great, feeds charger good and generator doesn't work as hard as it did @5000ft.
I think my charger(25amp) is close to Max for this generator(1000w surge\800w continuous). I am happy with it but keep in mind, other generic generators in this wattage range are $400+ so that's why I baby it.
Not a great review, but in my defense, I'm pretty lazy.
Price point: $171 store pick up @Walmart.
Short and sweet part. At this price($150ish), buy it and baby it like a newborn if your @3000ft elevation or less(manual states 3000ft or less).
My experiences.
-Opened box, read instructions(kinda), filled with oil. Ran it for about a half hour and swapped out oil. Oil was darkish. Ran it for another hour and swapped oil again(might be Overkill but I knew I had to baby it from other reviews), oil looked good. Filled it with a synthetic oil(I plan on using synthetic here on out for this).
-Max altitude used was 9300ft. Used it with a 25amp charger. Ran fine at first, but after 15-30 minutes bogged out and started blowing smoke(oil). Tried this a few times, this was the result every time(about 4 tries). Was able to run charger for hours if I went with 10amps.
-About 5000ft is where I could use batttery charger at full(25amps) for hours(2-3 never needed it more than that) without it blowing smoke. Generator was "working hard" though.
-@1000ft works great, feeds charger good and generator doesn't work as hard as it did @5000ft.
I think my charger(25amp) is close to Max for this generator(1000w surge\800w continuous). I am happy with it but keep in mind, other generic generators in this wattage range are $400+ so that's why I baby it.
Not a great review, but in my defense, I'm pretty lazy.
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