T.W.M. GEN 850 generator

Hi Wombat,

Do not have an answer to your question BUT if the retail price is $279 then the cost of manufacture is most likely around $50.

You pay peanuts..........you get monkeys.

CAVEAT EMPTOR

Cheers,
Willie
Never a dull moment

Yes Wombat..they are all the same ...Repco has them for the same price under a different name... other companies have them ..I think Mitre 10 call them Warrior brand..they are a little thirsty and only run at the one speed unlike the very much more expensive but better and quieter Honda..but gee it is a big difference in price...so that buys a lot of fuel and they are really not that noisy .

Yamaha now have an inverter model similar to the Honda Eu1.0 but supposedly better....
These two-stroke cheapies are not in the same league.
I agree.. you pay peanuts...

Does this mean where going to have a whole heap of noisy generators out there ?
And just when things were settling down to a nice quiet level too.
Personally I think they should be banned from sale and hope that their failure rate is so high so that word spreads around quickly and they stop selling 'em.

Sorry guys - just my point of view !

Sold at Magnet Mart in Canberra under the name "Millers Falls". Made in China - 850Watt and heavy as.........

My mate has one of these and we took it away recently. I didn't miss a beat ran the lights fine and wasnt that loud & used next to no fuel. It may not be as good as the honda's but they start at around $1000 for the same output. For the the approx five times a year it's used $300 is a much more acceptable outlay.

I also have one of the "millers falls" generators and find it does quite well
as previously mentioned quiet and economical, as for life expectancy well
as people have mentioned you get what you pay for, but so far so good.
And to answer your question Wombat yes it is the same one.

gday wombat.
i love the way people get on here and bag the crap out of theese gennys and most of them wouldnt have the slightest idea about them.
i own one and could not be more happier with it .
not as quiet as honda but not much noisier.we used ours heaps and heaps at easter im guessing 30 hrs or more around 12 litres of fuel.they do idle when not loaded and rev slightly when full load.they have 12 month waranty.so dont worry about the knockers if it suits your needs and budget go for it .
ps if something goes wrong with it and parts are a little prob after waranty the genuine yamaha ones fit.
—~‘¬‘¥•s’B

Just one thing about those genes, they sometimes dont stop at 240v. Have seen them go as high as 325v. (digital meter) which could play havoc with some equipment. The normal small honda has a voltage regulator, its a two pole alternator which means 3000rpm= 50 cpm, 3600rpm=60cpm (us frequency) and the voltage remains constant.
cheers haze

To beat the noise you can always try what we do in the Army........

Dig a small square pit slighty larger and deeper than the dimensions of the gen set. If you run the gen set below the ground level a lot of the noise is directed straight up rather than out horizontally.

Amazing what a difference it makes and we are not talking about a big effort to dig such a small hole.

Obviously if it rains ..........................................

What would it be like running a laptop ?

Matt.