Re: OT Coleman PowerMate Generator

In article <64ff5$484d59b4$18d6b40c$15696@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "amdx" <amdx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I bought a Coleman PowerMate Generator (ProGen 5000) about 3 years ago.
Saturday evening about 5:00pm the power went out. The power co.
arrived about 7:00pm spent an hour testing and said "I think the problem is
a bad transformer." He left the scene.
I have several freezers that I needed to keep frozen. I pulled out the
still unopened generator box and put the wheels, feet and handle on the
generator. I put oil in the engine and went to get gasoline. (The price of
gas really sunk in when 2- two gal cans cost me $16.00)
I started the generator, plugged in all the freezers and noted indicator
lights were on. I logged all the temperatures and noted after about an hour
and 15 minutes all temperatures were lower than originally noted.
Everything was working as it should.
During all this time we had missed supper so went down the road for a bite
to eat. We returned within 45 minutes, the generator engine was running but
I had no indicator lights working. Somewhere around 10:30pm the current
stopped flowing. The circuit breaker had not tripped.
The power company was back with a crane and transformer, they installed it
and power came back on at 12:00am. They did good!
All the food is fine.
Today I called Coleman PowerMate and the recording said they have no
services rep available at this time. I thought maybe they weren't open yet
so I waited an hour and called again, same message.
I checked the internet, The company is closed, employees have been laid
off. http://igeneratepower.com/archives/30print/

They are being sued for overrepresenting specifications and service
problems.
http://www.bsdlaw.com/Investigations/Powermate.htm

Hope you had a better weekend.
Mike

PS. Sunday I found out my brother-in-law bought the same unit, his only
worked a short time also. He bought a Honda.

You need about 4 K watts per fridg to get good reliable starting cuurent.
You would have had to start each device in sequence for a small generator
like that to run several freezers.

greg
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