I just bought the exact same unit from Amazon and it'll be here on the 12th. The 4000 watt Onan generator in my motorhome is wore out, so I bought this because it was cheaper than rebuilding my Onan, and a hell of a lot less work. Oh sure I'll have to pull it out of the storage compartment and plug my cord into it, but I've already pulled the Onan generator for repairs two times in the last 8 years, and I just don't want to do it again.
We used it this weekend instead of the onboard. Ran continuously for 2 days with mostly the fridge, lights and phones, etc. We also used the Keurig and the microwave. It performed well. Pretty impressed with this little unit.
Well I ran it today for 6.2 hours, and I changed the oil at 4 hours. I will change it again at 8 hours, and then again at 25 hours like the manual says, but I wanted to get that oil that came with it out of there ASAP. Every time you shut the generator off the accumulated runtime counter starts over again, so I'm writing the time of every session in a notebook. Can't wait to try it on the air conditioner in my motorhome, but I'm going to wait till I get the 8 hours break in time on it first.
Mine showed up today and I got it out there running a little fan heater and I'm very in the load doing the break-in just as the book says. The Onan generator in my motorhome is totally wore out at 3,000 hours so I hope this little 3600 will run my AC should I ever need it to do that, but I'm not going to attempt it until after the break-in. It'll have fresh oil in it then too. So far it seems to purr like a kitten, and I did make a little video to send to a friend of mine and it sounded a lot louder in the video than it does in person, weird. My only question now is is there a backup capacitor or battery in the display to keep a memory of the accumulated run time where do we have to write down the time we use it each time. That's what I'm going to figure out by the end of the day.
Yeah, I don't see an hour meter on there so I think you would just have to keep track of the hour run time so that you know when to do your scheduled maintenance. Excellent question, I hadn't even considered that one. Thank you for watching
@@mudhawk7353 When the generators running it shows the voltage. There's a little button on the right side that you push, and then it will display the frequency (cycles per second), and if you push it again it will show the accumulated section run time.
Unfortunately before you shut it off you have to look at the accumulated run time for that session and then write it down, otherwise you're not going to know what your total run time has been. How to solve that problem you could buy one of those inductive tachometer / hour meter that is battery-operated and all you have to do is wrap the wire on it around the spark plug wire several times and double-sided tape the unit to the case of the generator. I have one of those but I'm not going to use it for that I'm just going to keep track by writing down my session times
