Engel Generator

I didn't know there was an engel gennie either but had a look at the website and yep, they have 2. A 1 kva and 2 kva units.

Well Oil Beef Hooked!
to be sure....

From what Ive been told, the Engal Gene are rebedged Honda's.
You wont have any problems with them. Cheers

WALOC............ and how do they blow the fridges up. Never heard of it happening. Even did a search of archives on here.

Yep , whats wrong with running a fridge off a bunnings genny?

Usual scaremonger shyte. If it's cheap it must be rubbish ....WALOC

No it's not. Your right Monkey68. The el-cheapo generators have a good chance of killing not only the engel but any fridge that has electronics. If you intend running a basic transformer type bat charger off it to a battery and then the fridge off the battery, then you'd be ok.

What you may find in better gennies is the quality of the speed governer. All gennies have regulators which control the voltage to roughly 240v regardless of engine speed, but the Engel compressors are pretty sensitive to frequency, and holding the engine revs accurately is fairly important. That's not to say that the Bunnings one won't do that. Just need to be sure that it does hold its revs properly over a range of loads. I don't think you damage the Engel when the power source is off frequency; it just stops cooling, but that can be a disaster in itself; eg warm beer - horrors!
In the past, I have seen gennies with a frequency meter to make sure revs are right (tho I can't name any in recent times).
Gerry

True. A mate that runs a camping store told me engel won't honor warranty if damage is caused by this failure and that it's very simple to tell from the type of failure the cause.

Another reason to get a waeco.:)

I would not be surprised at all if the motor was honda like alot of mowers of different brands run briggs and stratton Motors - get the motors in an build the rest