Generator over heat protection.

[mike93lx]

I get it, EFI is going to cost more. I'm gonna wait and see how these are the other first generations of EFI gensets pan out. I'm sure Champion will follow suit if this market takes off. Seems like lots of us want to be able to link them for 240V, but I'd wager that's not a very common use case for the majority of market. RV guys need the amps. Guys that do portable welding usually have much bigger rigs....

My last house had a well, but I didn't need 240v otherwise during an outage. I would have gladly bought a pair as I could keep one running to have the heat on (Nat gas furnace with hydronic baseboard) and fridges cold, then turn the second on as needed for water.

Ended up buying a 240v briggs inverter instead. Work's fine, but it's too heavy to be easily portable, which would be nice. And the Briggs is pull start only

 

[dcg9381]

My last house had a well, but I didn't need 240v otherwise during an outage. I would have gladly bought a pair as I could keep one running to have the heat on (Nat gas furnace with hydronic baseboard) and fridges cold, then turn the second on as needed for water.

That makes sense with a well. Our water pump is at the surface, so I added a smaller "back up" pump (120V) in case power is down.. If our primary 240V pump fails or power goes down, I use the backup pump.

I did buy a large generator last year (Firman 9400) to cover power back up in the shop... But I had to do that as my 2 Champions wouldn't do 240V... So that's another $800 I wouldn't have had to spend with generators that will link and run out of phase.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Woof.. 2 of 'em ain't gonna be cheap if you want 240v.

Cheaper than an EU7000

 

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