Re: OT Coleman PowerMate Generator


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
Greg, that may be fine in theory, but, I ran 6 freezers, all of them
started, all of them
ran and all of them had a 4 to 7 degree temperature drop in the hour that
they ran.
I have individual thermometers on each freezer. Four of these frezers are
newer Kenmore freezers if that means anything. Luckily they were all set
between -4F
and -12F when the power went out. One old freezer got up to 12F, the new
ones only rose to 7F.
Mike


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