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KE6PID
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Rating: 5/5
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Aug 5, 2005 10:52
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Deluxe Power Plant
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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Yeah, it's a lot of dough. But you do get what you pay for, and in this case you get a lot!
The EX-5500 is s 5.5KW generator, rated at a continuous power of 5KW. 120 is available as well as 240 vac. This commercial duty generator is electric start only, and very heavy at nearly 400 lbs. It comes with wheels and handles so it can be moved around like a wheelbarrow. It takes three of us to load it into the truck for it's yearly sojourn to Field day. (I do use it for other things too!)
Once on site the liquid cooled engine runs smooth and steady maintaining voltage and frequency within tight tolerance with a multitude of transmitters and loads keying on and off. Due to the water-cooled engine and sound attenuated enclosure sound level is very low, at 50' from the generator it can't be heard in camp. Not only is acoustically quiet, it's electrically clean, no ignition noise or hash is detectable by the stations operating.
I've owned this for 10 plus years now, it hasn't been completely trouble free however, the voltage regulator failed causing a no output condition and the replacement part was very expen$ive. Fortunately this didn't occur during field day. Also the control key switch went bad preventing the engine from starting. Other than those two things, nothing more than normal maintenance (oil, starting battery and coolant changes) it's been trouble free.
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