Cheaper brand generators

[tossie]

Stoked!!! Put up the hawk yesterday for a bit of a trial the Ryobi ran all the lights the TV and one of the kids DVD players without leaving an idle. That is all we need on ocassions the gas will take care of the rest.

Cheers Shaun

[bert56]

Thats all I need to know, thanks Shaun. I am definitely going to get a 1kva now.


Bert

[Fun Police]

I think I need one of these to take on work sites as some have no power.

Tax deduction!!!

[ranewman]

Last year I bought a "deal" generator. Ran great at home while testing it for load. Now....in the field when it was needed was a completely different story. Then the dam thing broke and no parts where around due to the manufacture went belly up.
Got a couple of buds together and we got a group buy on Honda 2000s. Starts all the time, nice and quiet and we can "bridge" them together if needed. Just my 2.5 cents worth.

[grafy82]

Hi Mike
I would have thought that a 3.5 kVa would have a hard time running any welder, but I could be wrong.
Regards
Tjupurula

G'day, I bought a eBay 3.4kva pure sine wave inverter gennie. (For just under $500 delivered at the time, cheaper again now) with the hope to be able to take it and my Esseti 150amp caddy welder on some of those bigger trips as a bit of insurance if something breaks. I read this thread and thought it was about time to make sure it will actually run the welder. I was using a 2.5mm rod and was able to take it up to 90amps. At this setting I was able to weld the 4mm steel with ease. At 95amps the overload cut it out.
    The gennie engine certainly does sit up and sing with this much load but I did about a  4inch fillet weld continuous and it didn't miss a beat. So I'm happy that it will keep me out of trouble if I need to weld with it.
    You probably already know, but don't run an inverter welder off a non pure sine wave gennie or you can blow up the board in the welder.

Cheers

Wes