Thread: Generator recommendations and hook ups

Oh and Honda gets my vote.

Cheers guy's.
If he goes brand new it will be an inverter however the power has always been terrible and has killed 3 motherboards so all the pc and hi-fi gear is run through a ups anyway for clean power so inverter isn't essential.

Originally Posted by Beaker

Not trying to be a rule Nazi etc., but be bloody careful using a double male cord. Make sure mains are off etc...
Not only for the rules, but for the ladies up the poles, and in subs, trying to get the power back on.
In plain English, you could electrocute and kill them.

Ladies, linies..... same thing
Predictive and didn't check, but most linies I know are a bit lady'ish .....

Haha was thinking you must have a heap of mates in the job to call them all ladies

Yeah actually have a few

Most have some female features......

Normally breasts


I used to do a bit, normally early morning LV ties to allow cable jointing, or early morning high load escorts (what a routs that is...), before heading to office for the day. Oh and out when doing re conductor runs, or new build conductor runs.

Bloody great memories and meet some fantastic blokes. ( and few princess's....)

Dunlite and Youngman Richardson are both up there, A 6kva Inverter won't be cheap!

Guy there is a rugby game on. Can you till it's over
Going by the score is is over, just a technicality waiting for the clock to finish

I see on Tardme there is a 6KVa Honda-powered gen for $2100. I'll be in the market soon as our new house will have a gen input point.

Anyone familiar with the model I mentioned?

@Nibblet here's what you want, in here for a service
pm me and I can get $$$$s

Must be a few parallel imports models not on Hondas NZ list

Cheers @Maca49 I'll get back to you shortly, just waiting for @BRADS to get back to me about one

That reminds me that I need to get off my chuff and pull mine apart. Sand all through the windings doesn't seem to have done them much good.

Originally Posted by Beaker

Not trying to be a rule Nazi etc., but be bloody careful using a double male cord. Make sure mains are off etc...
Not only for the rules, but for the ladies up the poles, and in subs, trying to get the power back on.
In plain English, you could electrocute and kill them.

Yep...Seen that one a couple times....Builders made their own double male plug lead and plugged it into the neighbours heatpoint then into a heatpoint on the building site so they could use their power tools, just about killed someone.
A mate was building a house in Cambodia also and wanted a back up gen, builder was the sparky also and wired a gen socket back to a breaker, no mains changeover so when mains come back on - boom.

I had a 2kva Honda inverter generator when I had a house bus in Aussie. It was brilliant for the purpose. That would probably run a pump and freezer depending.. But yeah you'd probably want bigger for a house. Go Honda. Have you added up all the wattage of the appliances/ pumps it would run? If moneys an issue and u only need it for a certain purpose might help save some pennies.

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We had a power outage of about 6 hours one night.
Have a 5KVA 240VAC modified sine wave generator (2 uncontrolled, 1 controlled 3pin outlets), which also has 12V 8A DC outlet.
Built a box (out of a very large dog kennel), plugs inside box to an end (using outdoor 240VAC three pin sockets on the outside).
Don't run sensitive gear from it - only fry pans, toasters, lights, hot water kettle.
Give a run about every 6-8 weeks, to keep battery charged, but it does have a pull cord in case the battery 'does an Aussie' and spits the dummy.
Usually boil some water and make toast, at the same time, to give it a dummy load - and a work out.
Don't feed back through the house wiring - extension cords only.
Could feed some units in the house via mains board, but isolation from the mains feed needs too much paperwork and too many 'consultant engineers' to make it financially viable - even though I worked as an electrical tradie for Air NZ, back in the day, and had a very simple relay operated system already designed.
Bought on special from Repco - less than $1K - uses a B&S designed engine - one tank, full load = 10 hours non-stop running