Ive not dealt with them personally but I did take a look over their generators. One that did get my attention was the 5kva redback unit, quite a power claim from a smallish portable, until I read its specs.
A 5Kva unit thats continuously rated to only 3600w, and peak rated at only 4000w, for that asking price? Possibly someones fiddling the math a bit here, those are large losses for a modern electronic generator.
Youve likely already done youre homework, but Ill share my two bobs worth of generator experience.
In my opinion, youd be better served by buying a Name Brand inverter generator from a manufacturer that will sell you what you need to run the gear you have.
I purchased one of those cheap Chinese generators once a couple of years ago, a 3500Kva unit rated to start the vans A/C, it sucked at it!
What I learned from the experience is the difference between an Inductive load (a motor for example) and a resistive load (a small fan heater or kettle).
An inductive load wants power Immediately, yesterday is better :)
So its important youre generator (if it has an eco mode, ie, is variable speed) is able to quickly ramp up to carry that load before overloading, or the eco mode can be switched off.
A lot of single phase motors, a caravan A/C for example, have Start Capacitors fitted, which demand a huge amount of power to kick start the motor, this is important to know when speccing a genset for youre needs.
Newer and more expensive van A/Cs feature compressor motors fitted with soft starters or inverters which start the motor gradually and demand less power.
A resistive load takes power as it can get it, so its a lot gentler on the generator, and allows the generator to load up gradually.
So the old Chinese job would run a 1200w kettle and a 2000w fan heater all day and chug along merrily, but try and start that a/c with it and it would overload immediately.
I questioned the manufacturer with them prior to purchase and was told that the workings are Fujitsu, and assembled in Australia.
Did the full "run in", then a full service.
Again, you get what you pay for, but I'm quite happy with its performance, starts first time and reasonably quiet compared to some others out there. It runs our Truma air con and other items together quite well, but does rev quite noticeably when a few appliances are on together.
The only fault is the welding wire and slag pieces in the fuel tank. Went back to Itech and was given 2 new filters.
However a magnetic pickup tool did the job.
It is possibly a bit heavy, but a trolley from the big green shed solved the problem.
There are plenty of "used" Honda Gen Sets advertised on Gumtree , EBay and Buy Swap and Sell.
I have bought 2 ( EU20i and a EU30i ) in last 6 years at around half the then current new price - one had never been used and the other scratched on the body but perfect otherwise. Both still performing as new .
We have a 4.4 Iva Fuji generator which looks exactly the same had it 8 years and had no problems with it and it will run a air cond easily plus other stuff as well we also have a jump starter from Itec and they were good to deal with
I sent an email enquiry about their generators and they merely sent electronic brochures back, then I sent another asking specifics about if it was made by them or Chinese made and it's engine size with kw output, no reply, sent again no reply.
Don't be fooled all of these cheap overrated generators are Chinese made that's the only way they can get them so cheap just imagine how much the retailers like iTechWorld buy them for and what we expect from them.
-- Edited by Kebbin on Friday 8th of June 2018 09:42:13 AM
I have brought several items from the, including a 5.5 kva gen set (which they delivered to Dunsborough free of charge.) never had any issues with this or anything we have brought from them.
