Review on Gasoline generator Carver PPG-3900A, (3200 W) by Wiktor Uhlig ᠌

One of the best price / performance ratios (not to be confused with quality, because I can’t say anything about long-term reliability at nominal loads). In use 2 years. It is used occasionally to power power tools in various jobs. A 1.5 kW jackhammer - does an excellent job. 5 - 6 hours of continuous work - no problem. According to the operating time - I made two oil changes - the flight is normal. Above +10 starts easily. It is more difficult to start up to -10, but quite tolerably. At lower temperatures, it becomes problematic to turn the engine shaft manually with a viscous type of 10 W oil. Connected welding (simple inverter). The 2 mm electrode cooks confidently at medium currents, the 3 mm electrode - only at low currents (up to 75 A) does not hold the arc well and after a while the protection works. At the same time, according to the level of vibration and the change in the sound of the exhaust, the feeling is that the engine is not overloaded. I didn’t check it in work with a good semiautomatic device, it might be better if it has a power factor corrector (“imported” abbreviation - PFC). Reliably confirmed (measured by me) active load power in the form of two heating elements - 2.7 kW for 10 minutes. I do not recommend connecting a building hair dryer due to an impulse load change with a frequency from fractions to units of Hz - the engine speed begins to float significantly. For domestic use, it is quite a worthy device. In general - I recommend.