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From: Room2b on 14 Jan 2006 08:30
Has anyone here had experience--good, bad, indifferent--running a show
off one of these chinese diesel generators that are now popping up like
popcorn on ebay? or can point me to any sources of real world test
information?
example:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7580490369&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
There are a lot of others being offered from 5 to 6 kw. Quite a few
outdoor festivals in my area have a strong "green" flavor and would
love to have their sound running off biodiesel--the fuel is readily
available now. But I'm curious what the odds are that these new, much
cheaper chinese gen sets would perform.

From: Rodney on 14 Jan 2006 08:59
Don't know about that one, but a few years I put out an RFP for a 30kW
unit, silenced on a trailer. The low bid came back from some unknown
made in Italy. I was a little sceptical, but bough it anyway. It is a
great unit, quiet and solid as a rock.

Rodney

From: Gareth Magennis on 14 Jan 2006 09:32

"Room2b" <recordist(a)room2b.com> wrote in message
news:1137245417.663649.58390(a)f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Has anyone here had experience--good, bad, indifferent--running a show
> off one of these chinese diesel generators that are now popping up like
> popcorn on ebay? or can point me to any sources of real world test
> information?
> example:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7580490369&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
> There are a lot of others being offered from 5 to 6 kw. Quite a few
> outdoor festivals in my area have a strong "green" flavor and would
> love to have their sound running off biodiesel--the fuel is readily
> available now. But I'm curious what the odds are that these new, much
> cheaper chinese gen sets would perform.
>

There's a lot of angry debate about just how environmentally friendly
biodiesel actually is. Along the lines of if there is profit to be made
growing plants for fuel, even more rainforest will be cut down to plant
these crops.


Gareth.


From: No One on 14 Jan 2006 13:15
> Has anyone here had experience--good, bad, indifferent--
> running a show off one of these chinese diesel generators
> that are now popping up like popcorn on ebay? or can
> point me to any sources of real world test information?
> example:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7580490369&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
> There are a lot of others being offered from 5 to 6 kw.

That's not a lot of power... About the smallest I've used was a 20KW
for a PA only gig we used to do at a local college. The larger generators
have some advantages.... They use electronic regulation so they're more
stable.. They have a larger rotating mass so they hold RPMs better as the
load changes.
Most of the generators I've used have been Multiquip Whisperwatts...
Here's the link to their site.
http://www.multiquip.com/mqpower/pages-products/whisperwatt/whisperwatt.html
Very good, dependable units that are readily available from rental houses.
Nice part about renting is they'll deliver it and maintain it... Also, if
it dies on you the rental shop has ways of fixing or replacing the defective
unit.

> Quite a few outdoor festivals in my area have a strong
> "green" flavor and would love to have their sound running
> off biodiesel--the fuel is readily available now.

The problem with that for now is availability and cost. If you can find
bio-diesel it's typically more expensive.

Mike Borkhuis


From: www.locoworks.com on 14 Jan 2006 20:03
There are hundreds of these units, some of very high KW, running around
Hollywood. You may be able to find some used ones by advertising in
one of the trade papers. Ask for a "blimped" generator. You can lean
up against one of these and not know it's running.

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