Hunting generator

Sep 02, 2014 4 Replies
M

I have an 8 year old 2.2 kva Chinese petrol generator. It hasn't had much use but from early on it had a habit of the engine revs rising and falling rhythmically. This soon settled down once load was applied. However I used it to power some lights at the weekend and despite having just over 1kw load it still did it resulting in the lights rhythmically fluctuating in brightness.



I had a look at it yesterday evening and even tried a 2kw load and it still did it. I tried altering the mixture and throttle stop with no improvement.



Any suggestions on a cure?



Mike



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look for whatever governs it and try and reduce friction in it

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Aye, how fast did it hunt?

If nothing can be found wrong with the governer, there might be a jammed/out of position flap valve in the carburetta. Had this with a B&S engined lawn mower. Whether a chinese engine has a similar thing I don't know. The flap valve was part of the "rubber" pump diaphragm/gasket between the top and bottom halves of the carb.

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M

Just back after working away from home for the past week. I had it running again and can't see problems with and links in the governor arms, all seems to move smoothly. Next stage will be to strip down the carburettor.

Mike

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