well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today we're doing some torture testing and it's going
to be on the firm and gents at that firm in generator has the specs of 30 450 watts running
and 44 50 maximum so that's twenty eight amps running and a maximum of thirty seven amps peak
so what we're going to do today as requested everybody wanted to know if the compact table
saw will run at a higher amperage as you're pushing the wood through it now the last time
I remember doing this was a long time ago was back in February and I think running was around
eight amps but it peaked out way high like about fifty so now the fifty doesn't concern
us too much because it's only momentary so what I've got is I've got it plugged into my outlet
like before with the exact same extension cord we're going to start off and we're just going
to test it on the mains and see exactly from the household current how much power does this thing
run I got the meters all set up here and then we'll do it again with the table saw pushing
the wood through and then we'll do the exact same thing with the firm and genset and we'll
see if there's any difference whether it can handle it then the second part it's going to
be very interesting we're going to do some more loading up of it and I have somewhere over here
my Milwaukee circular saw and it's rated 15 amps so let's see what we can do and let's
see how far we can push this firm and genset so I'll get over here and I'll just fire it
up I'll get the second camera showing the meter readings let's get to it okay for the first test
all we're going to do is use the electricity that I have in the shop and we're just going
to turn it on and we'll get a base setting of exactly how much this draws so the meter on the
right here is for voltage and meter on the left the big one is for amperage let's take a look
well as you could see there the max was around 48 and it did start dropping though I'd say
it's gonna probably bottom out around eight and a half amps and the voltage we got a minimum of 104
and then of course it recovers after that and it goes back up to about 121 so I think that's pretty
good that's a good baseline we'll say around eight and a half eight point seven amps now let's start
pushing a piece of wood through this and let's see what happens now okay this is pushing the piece
of wood through and we're using the household electricity let's take a look and see what happens
okay from what I seen it looks like around 14 amps it went up from about eight to about
fourteen and on the voltage here well only went down to you know a low of 105 and so
guys it does go up a bit I would say about five amps you know five six amps I mean 114 you know
from 109 you know it's hard to exactly you know say exactly what is going to be all the time but
yeah I'm saying it draws 14 amps you put a piece of wood through that so now let's take a look at
starting up the firm and genset and running a piece of wood through and let's see if it
will handle that because as far as I could see it should have no problem with 15 amps 14 amps
well as you can see it handled it no problem let's move on to the next test we're going to
keep it little bit of a peek care of this gen set in the outlets on it and then we'll hook it
up to the circular saw let's get everything going here and let's do a little bit of a
torture test on it well I'm going to show you the setup here what we got going on and this
is quite a unique gen set it's got two outlets which are 20 amp this one here 30 amp this one
here twistlock 30 amp now I picked up this little outlet here this receptacle here guys this was
only like 7 bucks at princess Auto so what I'm gonna do is stab that in there what I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna run it all off the one outlet because I only have one line splitter so what
I'm gonna do is check this out guys here's the circular saw and I'm running it off a 14-gauge
50-footer because you know what a lot of people don't run you know a small little cord they run
a long cord that's 14 gauge 50-footer and I got the other cable down here and it's all going in
to this Junction right here now check out this now this is you're not supposed to do this guys
and so I've got everything stabbed into there and everything's going to go through the amp
clamp and we're gonna bring everything over here to the meter so I'm going to start the
gen setup and what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut that piece of wood while the table saw
is running now I know putting a piece of wood through there it's gonna add an extra say five
six amps but let's see what happens when we got everything running at the same time
well there you go you've seen the numbers guys I'm saying that genset can run this and
the circular saw at the same time no problem of course you have to run it through separate
outlets and guys I'm saying this is a valid test this thing can run both of them at the
same time and I think it's a fantastic genset and I look forward to using it more in the
future you have to really test your equipment and that's what it comes down to and I'm very
happy with this Bourbon genset so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this
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