Testing the electrical capacity of the generator. 2 stroke gas engine and 6.5 Amp nameplate capacity. But it will merrily buzz along at 9amps till the fuel runs out.
Nobody told me drowning was a possibility in that lake! I hope my family sues them on my behalf! And my brother got cut on the no lifeguard on duty sign, so they should really put up "caution caution signs may be sharp" those bastards are trying to kill us! even though I already drowned.
One very dangerous thing what could happen is if something falls at the bucket and the sidewall ruptures,... The following waterflow can move the cables in unpredictable ways...
This is easily the best OSHA joke I've ever seen LMAO. Seriously a few dozen OSHA handbooks randomly burst into flames every time Uncle Bumblefuck uploads a vijeo.
Don't need Ranger Rick stopping by 2 minutes into generator hours telling you "They've had complaints.", while you're one bar on your battery because the dang kids gotta sleep with some lights on...
That start sequence. I inherited a frankenblower from my pops. First snow fall and I spent high near 2 hours (! Yes, I too am dumber than I look) trying to pull start the thing. Finally engaged the noodle and started troubleshooting only to find that a previous handyman had installed a new throttle lever - but chose for reasons beyond my comprehension to install it backwards. Set the throttle to off, and with the last shred of strength and integrity of my now shredded shoulder, pulled the cord with the gusto of an hourly paid union shop hand - and the beast roared to life!
My old Dad used to tell us of his adventures as a WWII RAF Radar Operator. This video reminds me of him telling us of how they rigged up their hot bath on the banks of rice paddys in Burma. They took the cables from the generator set and just stuck 'em in a water tank (dimensions unreported). Hot baths in minutes ...
Well, I can already un-verify one claim. I bought one, and I haven't gotten any tail despite numerous attempts to display my fancy small generator to the ladies... on the plus side, I also haven't run into gators. Either way, it's still false advertising; I was promised tail and gators.
@@jasepoag8930 Cloaca s3x. Sure beats a chicken's................OK...what the fck is wrong with us? Im starting to get concerned over all of our mental health and well being. Now excuse me while I drive down to Florida and get me some gator tang...
@@md_vandenberg I asked her about it last year when I was in Japan, whether the story was true or not. She said ol’ Billy was the best ass pinching she’s ever received, after me, of course.
@@scorpioassmodeusgtx1811 Mmm, that makes me moist. Also, I was told to never go to Japan unless I'm with a responsible adult. You're a responsible adult, right?
I mean honestly super low risk with the open fire going, ironically it’ll just burn the hydrogen as it’s generated and keep the concentration low... as long as you’re below the LEL or above the UEL you’re good. I used to jump into leaking fuel underground tank sumps and open the bolted port with a regular impact gun... technically supposed to use intrinsically safe, but the fuel is so concentrated in the hole that you’re good, nothing would burn in there anyway. Course that means you can’t breathe either, but that’s just an incentive to work quickly.
@@chickenfishhybrid44 plus with the slow generation of hydrogen gas a open flame will keep it from getting to the explosive level, she'll just flash off first.
Had this type of genny since they were bought out, it just keeps going with very little love, lent it out and they made it boil 2000+ watt kettle daily till it popped the crank seal onto the shaft, push it back in, couple tappity taps with the screw driver and it's still going.
You have to have the real German stuff of you nostalgic for the old times, sitting in a trench with the guys, up to your knees in mud. It'll bring a tear to your eye and a thickening of the mucus your coughing up as your lung tissue disintigates. ❤️
The most entertaining things ever caught on camera, usually followed someone saying: 'Just a little bit more', 'what's the worst that can happen?', 'I wonder what this thing does?', and the classic 'hold my beer'. Entire gene pools have been Beetlejuiced out of existence by overly enthusiastic back woods warriors daring to mutter any three of those within shouting distance proximity to one another. All 4 spoken, are likely to rend the space time continuinuum into MC Escher envisioned chunks. It's the ones who beat the odds as well as themselves, who survived and forefathered the manbun sporting baristas of today.
For lower load/higher resistance, you want less salt in solution. We usually start with tap water, electrodes 50% in, and add salt progressively until we get about the right current. Then raise/lower electrodes to vary load for the alternator.
Yup. I dunno aboot Canadiana but here in Wales the tap water is Chlorinated and so has plenty of ions for the pixies to ride on. If I was short of current for a job like that, THAT is when I'd be adding more solubles to it.
I was kind of thinking the same thing like how does this translate to what I can power with the thing but he was more so trying to prove it would die under load and it didn’t.
@@cdurkinz 800 watts continuous, so a 2 slot toaster, or a fridge and maybe a deep freezer if they never try to start at the same time, or a furnace perhaps. Point being these are pretty limited for power outage use, more for tailgating, camping, power tool use far from a plug, etc.
Russian winter: Bottle of vodka and a revolver. Canadian winter: Open fire, petrol, chlorine crackling electrodes, carbon monoxide. Russian odds suddenly seem longer.
I for one have survived a bottle of vodka and a half froze .38. Not so sure if I could have made it through the improv hydrogen generator next to a wood fire and a can of premix all in the same room.
@@sheldoniusRex oh, it's all safe enough til you hit whatever the flashpoint for the hydrogen gas or the lung-liquifying point of the chlorine gas is. Good thing is the shop's probably draftsome enough you don't need to crack a window to get a breeze and the beers get a little extra head-fog to boot. Just 'member the fire water in the red can ain't for drinking.
Also, there may be some stratification of concentration, i.e. the ions will "drain" from the areas where there's less current flow (bottom of bucket) and "gather" within the current path.
I,ve had a few of these. Bought my first one to run some lights for night/bow fishing on my boat and to keep the battery charged up. For 89$ i did not expect it to last a month, 3 years later i pulled on the pull cord to hard and broke the plastic dogs on the starting mechanism. I could have replaced them for 50$. But opted to buy another for 89$. I have used it not only on my boat, but even more so running an electric fillet knife in remote locations. Used it to build a cover for my new pontoon boat running a chop saw. It wasnt happy but did it without much complaint. During snowpacalyps in east texas last year i used it to power the lights and my diesel fired heater through a suicide cord while i changed the end bearings on my big generator. It ran lights and a couple fans and a deep freezer at my mother in laws after a hurricane. It has been a damn handy unit. Mother in law was so impressed with it she got her one.
These little 2 cycle generators are actually pretty tough little things. I've had one for about 6 years or so and use it mostly for running power tools and lights.
Well no he didn't. It's a two stroke so there is no oil in the engine at all until the fuel is turned on lol so all he did was put two years worth of wear on it before it ever started! At least it was run in before first start!
I have one of these for a few years now. Absolutely love it and I use it way more often than I thought I would. Sometimes this thing is more convenient than running an extension cord.
@@martinwest2722 As a kid, I remember seeing searchlights (probably WWII surplus) mounted on a flatbed trailer, being driven by generators. I think about 5' in diameter (1.5m). This was to advertise the equivalent of a state fair (CNE). They were open carbon arc and sizzled nicely.
Love the vid. I bought one earlier this summer and took it on a week long camping trip. Never had a problem, even ran it on boat gas when I ran out. Really wandered what she could do at full tilt. Keep it up.
I've had one for nigh on 10 years, brought my freezers through two hurricanes. One caution though! Don't let it run out of gas with a load connected! It'll turn 300 watts worth of light bulbs into flash bulbs when it dies!
@@CVP-og9pw the generator which is basically a motor(an inductor). When the generator is turning the coils act like springs, pushing and pulling current. When you stop it the angry electrons still want to move, causing the voltage to rocket waaay higher than the nominal voltage. Similar to what happens when you agresively shut the water tap in your home,makes the pipes move a bit
@@CVP-og9pw Maybe with a load that has a high inductance like a motor or transformer. When the current is switched of, the high inductance load generates a voltage spike. Nonetheless this is just a guess, maybe it is actually the generators fault.
@@rscervin9950 thanks i was thinking about that and remembered that a similiar thing happens to power tools when the motor suddenly stops and some of them have protection diodes so that the angry pixies don't turn your new milfuckee drill into the elephant's foot
Interesting, about 15 years ago I bought 100 of those things for resale here in Panama. 37.50 each at that time. Identical to this one in appearance and output. 10% suffered crib death.
If you amortize the cost of the abortions across the whole purchase that's still only 41.25 each, and you got spare parts for free. How much would ninety Honda's run you?
I had the older generation from the hazard fraud in blue and black. My fuel with 10% mid-western corn squeezin's turned the gaskets and fuel lines into a nice thick schmoo after the first use.
Well there's yer problem right there. Thing's made for freshly fracked tarsand turds. Corn squeezins'll burn but the gaskets get all tipsy on the white lightning and wake up the next day with a hangover that'll keep the float from bowlin'.
Pretty sure the amps are creeping up is because the electrodes are being dissolved into the water, due to the current going through them. Electrolytic dissociation if you want to get fancy
I think that's the first time I've seen anyone getting sparks from water ! Sketchy as frigg but I'm glad I saw you do it first, now I don't have to, but I might !
I've been an AVE watcher for years... This man is truly amazing. He can teach, entertain, lay innuendo, be right, be wrong. DAMN Man, stop making the rest of use look bad.
I once read a comment from a guy who managed a trailer park. He had something like a dozen of these things and rented them for $20/day during power outages to people who wanted to keep their fridges running. He said he just loctite'd the screws holding the reed valves, then started it up and ran it for 30 minutes with no load, then 30 minutes with a 100 watt load. Once those things were done, they basically ran forever, he hadn't had one fail on him after several years and hundreds of hours between them.
I have one. Works great! Use it for trimming trees with my sawsall. Not quite like cordless- but a five gallon can of batteries is way cheaper for this setup.
I inherited a new-in-box one of the old blue-top ones of these from my late father. Saved me hundreds of greenback doll-hairs in food that was in the standing fridge and chest freezer the last two times we lost power. Just had to run a 100 ft power cord (14ga from Home Despot, so we're good) in from the little beast out front of the garage and swapped it between them every couple hours to let them get cool. Last time was 3 full days of no power and just had to fill it four times; that 1 gallon lasts a good 6 hours with the low-cycling of the refrigerant compressors (claims 5 hours at 50% load). Just left it off overnight while sleeping. Now I've got me one of Hazard Frought's 9k start/7250 run generators but that little guy is going to stick around as a backup. Little champ, it is!
I bought one of those back in march just in case my semi rural area had electric problems with the mass hysteria that was going on. I'm glad to see that it was a better buy than I thought.
Well I'm impressed. I finally used the small generator. And it really did a fantastic job. Used my electric 14 in. Chainsaw. The ice storm we had took out some trees on my 5 acres. That little tailgater worked great.
Picked up the Power Fister version about 12 years ago. Was great on the job site to run a few lights, or charging batteries for the cordless tools. Couple years later the fuel shutoff began to leak and the carburetor gummed up. Been sitting in the healing shed ever since.
This is my favorite channel on youtube, I watch your videos every night! i'd like to see you do a tear down of the Makita 6 1/2in 18v circular saw if possible! keep up the good content!
Pretty clean inverters and pure sinusoidal are still very different. They have noise the whole way though the waveform which can cause harmonics. You can hear it in some appliances.
I bought the same generator (different colour and name) from Canadian Tire years ago because it was cheaper than renting one for a job at the cottage. It worked great for that job. After some more use it lost power due to carbon blocking up the muffler. I cleaned that out and it was good as new ...until a small magnet which was glued on the rotor came off and wrecked the windings. It is a nicely made little thing, with one fatal flaw.
