Justme

No Andy I'm not on the tranny forum. Thanks for your comments gensetsteve. I have been very happy with the genny (and recommended it to lots of people) so far & was not even that miffed when it failed still in the warranty period. How I will feel about that company in the future will depend on the repair cost & how they treat me. I would have gone down the lister road but need to keep the noise down as we have a complaining neighbour. Please do give me your honest opinion. Thats what I dont get either. Even with a pallet cost each way we are not talking much. I might know more once I get their quote for fixing it.

I am on the Navi forum (and others) already. I am getting a good mix of replies from them all.

Yep they do sound a bit yehar. I would guess they are a franshise but the people I am dealing with are the makers UK importer / dealer / agent. I bought from an independant. I might just make that call to a few genny places to see what they say. I have a petrol one that I am using. Its up & down the rev range like billyo. What about the ones with saver settings to knock back the speed to save fuel under low loads?

They had it collected so I have the couriers paperwork. It is the makers tech dept lol. (well the Uk branch any way) As my "rights" are with the seller & not the maker. I will have to get it fixed & then chase the seller. But they will use the makers report as defence. Unless I can find an expert to "diss" there report I am stuffed. But like I said they will loose out more. I will diss them to hell & back & if I loose them one sale it will have cost them more than replacing one cap. As I am an off gridder I am in contact with lots of people that use & buy this sort of genny. A personal recommendation goes a long way or not lol.

Thats the trouble. Its in with the dealers & they are saying that the air filter & fuel filter are causing the engine to run "rough" & have blown the cap. I think the engine sounds lovely & smooth. So they wont fix it under warranty. dont know yet what they will want to fix it. If it is just a cap which cant cost much to change or fit I think they are playing a stupid game risking their good name for a few £. Mine does have the AVR as I paid extra for it. That should make the standard cap redundant.

1, Thats what I thought 2, Ditto 3, I bought it new. Its 2 weeks inside its warranty 4, This one comes with no AVR. The AVR add on is about £200 which I paid. As it has the Avr (with its own 2 caps) the alt cap should be redundant I would have thought?

Its a 4.8kw / 6kva unit. No sync with mains as we have none. Does not need to sysn to inverter as the inverter drops out & passes through (but still monitors) when genny is on. The inverter lets the genny start under no load then once stable will pass through the power. The load it takes over is quite small (1 or 2 amps) & then the inverter will ramp up the charger slowly adding the load. On shut down the charger will have lowered its demand & the inverter again senses the shut down & switches back to inverter power before the genny shuts down. So I dont think its a sudden loading / unloading problem. Will check out that how to link thanks.

I know that the engine turns the alt to make the elec. I am after a bit more than that. Without going in to to many details just yet. I have a genny (no not a cheapy ebay jobby one but a £2k plus one) that has stopped making power. Its been diagnosed as having a faulty cap. They are saying that the cap blew / failed due to the engine running at to low & variable speed. (which they are blaming on a slightly dirty air filter & the fuel filters that still flow fuel freely so cant be blocked at all) Now I would assume that the caps job is to smooth out any variances in the speed especially as the genny was fitted with the add on AVR module so that the power produced was suitable for sensitive equipment. Also of note is that the power is fed to the appliances via an inverter charger that monitors the power for V & Hertz & will disconnect if the values are not up to spec. The inverter has not been doing that. So what does the cap do (the genny has two, the second is wire to the AVR but I dont know which one failed) & why would it fail. The engine sounded lovely to me, never missing a beat, easy to start & stop

Think about that for a min. Unless you use a smaller drill the plugs will have shrunk & still be too small.

That maybe but when that green plug dries out it will shrink & fall out the hole. Just the same as oak building pegs are made from seasoned oak yet go into green oak beams. Then it gets tighter as the beams season. Your way is the opposite of that.

Will that be wide enough for 2 wheel chairs to pass? Even at 2 x 60cm it sounds a bit tight. Might need passing points as well. Price wise its about 1.4m3 (49.5 cu ft) I would guess that £15-20 per cu ft would be about right so total cost of £742 to £990 (so £8 per board is about right if it takes 100 boards) But you do need thicker than 3cm unless the frame work is very close set so that will up the cost.

That buster seemed like the wrong tool for the job to me. As the only thing that needed to get in was large steel tracked diggers a harvester would have been quicker. It could have cut a path wide enough to get the digger in & also enough space at the side to lay / stack the trees even with all the branches on but they could have used one that snedded & cut to length as well. Not only quicker but would have had a product to sell to of set the cost. If the stumps were a big problem then the brash would could have been laid on the track way. As to the super experianced helo pilot, well as soon as I saw the first shot with the cable length I said he should half that or he will have to much swing.

IF you are going for a grant make sure you do all the stuff you want to do but they wont like first. If you do it after claiming but before getting paid out they will default on the payment as happened to me. The stuff they dint like had nothing to do with the work they were paying for (I say paying as the 50% they worked out was more like 25% of real costs). It was a real pisser as some of the work we did how they wanted it & not how we wanted it so we could claim.

At £173.48 +vat just for the box I was right I cant afford one lol.

Yeh works using IE Dare I ask How much? Do you do a smaller version for non pro, occasional or home type users? (as I am guessing it will be out of my afordability range)

Must not work on Chrome cos all I get is a holding page.

Thats major negligence. Going to cost em a penny or two.

Thats what I said. A trailer of 750kg (on any "car") or trailer under 50% of car's actual weight & total MAM under 3500kg. So its not "just" 4250kg train weight.

This has been done here before but they can tow a 750kg trailer or upto 3500kg max train weight as long as the car empty weighs more than the trailer full (or some thing like that). So a 2000kg car can tow a 1500kg trailer on a post 97 licence.

Go over your last few years returns & see what you own % would be doing it the normal way. Only use a flat rate scheme if you will be better off.

If you end up breaking it I'll have the wheel & tyres.

1, With narrow wire you cant up the amps as far as you can with thicker wire. Farm stuff can take the thicker wire no probs & you might even get into spray transfer with high enough amps. 2, Or remove the reel & keep it inside or save up the little sachet of silica crystals & put in the housing. 3, Yeh big down side to outside MIG'ing, sort out wind breaks / screens.

Do they? Amp for amp I would say they are the same. In fact I got rid of the oxford arc welder as my mig had more power & I was just not using it any more. Mig is quicker, easier & more versatile. Down side is gas cylinder rental costs & special gasses needed for other metals. (BOC have now got a low user offer) £ for £ arc would do better as you will get more amps for your money.

I think it would be good to show things like before & after on 30% (or any %) reductions crown lifts & any other terms that non arb people wont understand what they actually mean.

Will do Mr Ed as I have lots of raking type stuff to do.