hello hello thanks for tuning in today we wanted to show you a inverter generator
that we picked up off amazon and we're gonna see if it can run a 2021
zinger travel trailer this is a larger pull behind trailer it's almost 10 000 pounds it does have a
50 amp service this generator will only put out 30 amps though and it claims that and excuse the
rock that's our little serial number hider it's a 3kw rated 120 volts 60 hertz 25 amps single phase
and i believe it has a surge of 3 300 this is the newer gen max style and on the front here
you're going to have your co alarm your overload alarm your low oil alarm
and your output indicator you got ac breaker there's your run start and choke you also have
an eco mode a grounding strip parallel kit ac reset some dc i'm sorry some usb outputs
two breakers here or two plugs and one twist lock so you'll have to get
we have an adapter that runs in through here and it comes through this power box and everything
you should have one of these if you have an rv but we're gonna fire it up and see what it can
run see if it can run the ac and kind of max this thing out and see where we're at with it
so we did run through a few oil changes prior to prior to this and you see how dirty this oil is
this is after a first oil change that's the second one running at about half load and this is the
third test and this will be the third oil change before it's actually used full fully on the oil
changes about every 50 hours is what it says so it's easy to crank up it usually starts up with
one pull we're gonna go ahead and get it fired up and we're gonna run this thing at near max or
as mac as we can get and as you can see down there the fuel level is at full so we'll have
a timer going to see exactly how long this thing stays on for under a max load situation so let's
get it started okay it is running and that is the green indicator showing you this pushing power out
we did start the timer there to make sure that we can monitor everything we're going
to go ahead and plug this twist lock in and start powering the devices on all right as
you can see there it is producing clean pure sine wave power as indicated by the green light
some rvs may need this neutral floating plug that makes it a bonded neutral i believe they said
uh i believe this took care of that because this does nothing really
so as you can see it is running directly into the side of the trailer
no trickery there and we're gonna come around and we're gonna go ahead and start up
the outside refrigerator and that'll be the first load that we put on
and you heard it surge compressor's on now
and we'll go ahead and we'll walk inside
and we'll start powering on different devices and see where our breaking point is
okay so here we have the control unit you see the battery is fully charged
the generator is running we're gonna turn all the lights on that turn the lights on in the unit
so we have all the lights on here we're going to go ahead and start this ac up because
okay we're going to try and start up the ac it is about 100 degrees in here so we can check
and make sure the ac is actually working now you kind of want to be smart with these things let's
go ahead and just hit the 70 real quick we're going to put the fan on low then turn the fan
on and just give it a second let the generator catch up the speed let everything speed up
once you feel the fan and everything running then go ahead and just switch it to cool
and now the air conditioner is on
it is starting to blow cool air out we're going to drop the temperature down
temperatures drop down
we can go ahead and switch it to high now
and there it is so the ac is running on the generator lights are still on
we're going to go ahead and turn on the refrigerator now
all right the refrigerator just clicked on
so the refrigerator is on now and the big question of the day is can you use the microwave
with the ac going so let's check
and there it is the microwave is working the lights are on
the refrigerator is on the ac is on everything is on
so the only thing that we found that you can't do with this small generator is
so we have the ac on we have the water heat the electric water here on you will not be able to run
the ac electric water heater and the microwave at the same time the wattage is way too high
but for a small portable unit running the ac that's really all you want to do and
this is a coleman mach series ac and again this is on a 2021 zinger so we'll go ahead
and we're just gonna let everything run for a while and see how long this will run for
and see they say it's four hours on 50 so this thing is close to maxing out so
if we get two hours off a gallon of gas we'll be good so we'll check back in periodically
okay we are coming up on 30 minutes in and the temperature has dropped about 10 degrees in here
so it's doing well and the tv's on all the lights are still on so once it drops down to about
i don't know 80 degrees in here we'll go ahead and turn on the hot water heater again and put
a bigger load on it and see what happens all right we're about an hour and 10 minutes in
drop the temperature about 20 degrees and again the tv and everything is still on so we're gonna
go ahead and turn on the hot water heater to act as if somebody was going to be using it
you see both are on now i heard a generator kick up so we'll just sit here and let it
continue to run hey and it seems the generator shut down at the 1 hour and 30 minute mark
so let's go out there and see what happens oh well it looked like it overloaded maybe it
there it goes right back on
turn the economy mode on now all right the generator is still running and it's coming down to
about 80 degrees or an hour and a half in as you can see everything's still running we think what
happened was the refrigerator compressors we've got two refrigerators on here the ac with the
water pump and heater being on tv being on lights on kind of just caused an over surge moment for
the second but again the generator is an emergency use type thing and as long as you're not running
every single item in here this will do just fine so let it continue run and see what happens
all right one hour 45 minutes in so that seems about right they said 50 load will run for four
hours this thing was near maxed out load and we got almost two hours so we'll go over to look at
it and talk about it okay so the gen max gm 3300i with the rv hookup traverse trailer hookup this
thing does great honestly we weren't expecting it to run the ac or anything like that but if you're
smart with your power consumption you can run the ac in the microwave the tv the lights all
at the same time we did have a small power blip and i just believe that's because
everything decided to cycle on at once as far as the two refrigerator compressors the ac compressor
and just it surged it a little higher than the 3300 but if you're running everything on low and
just watching your power consumption this thing does excellent for the price at around 600 650
we believe is what it cost the weight is around 50 to 60 pounds it is a small size generator
you're not gonna get a better generator this small of a package this weight for this price
so yeah definitely a good buy if you're looking for a good generator to run your travel trailer
this might be a good option for you and it can parallel with another one if you need bigger
more demands for like a fifth wheel so we hope this helps thanks for watching please subscribe