My neighbour brought over a Full Boar generator he bought and used once but he didn't like the way the revs went up and down all the time. I had to dismantle all the covers so that I could get to the electric governor mounted on the top of the carby. Bunnings sell this rubbish, (look at the reviews, you won't buy one) no service and no spares brought into the country. Anyway on this one the governor has failed ( he used it once for a couple of hours and it was hunting from the get go. Obviously I am not going to be able to get another governor so somehow I am going to work out some way he can manually open the butterfly for starting purposes and I then have set the butterfly at enough revs that it will run a 520 watt drill at correct revs. He only wants it to run a small camping fridge ( I will check tomorrow how many watts that is drawing) and set it up for that. My question is how can I set it up so he can open the butterfly so he can start it, there isn't a lot of room inside these things. AS I said do not buy one of these generators
On your old generator I thought the governor wasn't working so I just bent up an old racer bike spoke and then put a flat bit of metal over the wire that hooked up to the throttle butterfly then tightened a self taper to hold the linkage at the engine rpm I wanted.
Another way would be to hook up a manual throttle control cable to the butterfly ,but it doesn't look like you have room to do that, you may be able to drill a hole in the plastic for the linkage and bend it over to hold the butterfly a third open.
I'd make sure it's a governor problem first by removing the fuel and air filter and spraying fuel or starter fluid into the air cleaner housing to see if it still hunts when running.
Hi Max, it has a screw that I can adjust to set the revs so that is fine, it is just that I have to open the butterfly for starting as a governor normally does then let the butterfly spring back to the stop. I have to be able to hold it open and pull start it from the other side I am just wondering if it could be power pulsating through this electric governor that is causing it to pulsate
Problem is Max, not much room in there to do anything. This thing is practically brand new and it has to be modified Bunnings should be brought to justice over selling this junk. The reviews say it all
That's why I would think it's possibly a carby blockage problem making it hunt and not the governor ,a lot of people have had problems with the carby gummed up and the fuel primer bulb has cracked on these new generators which can effect the running of the motor.
For a drill ,I've always found the cheap 2 stroke generators work well ,I think around here people throw them out as they are a little hard to start cold but I just remove 2 screws for the air cleaner cover and spray some fuel into the carby and it fires up straight away .It's probably more to do with the fuel evaporating after a while but it leaves the oil in the tank and the fuel mix has a lot of oil in it when you add fuel to the tank making starting harder.
Hi Max, this is a 4 stroke genny and I did see lots of complaints about the primer bulb but this one has a carby similar to the ones fitted on Chonda mowers with a choke. With the governor removed it runs ok sort of just not dead smooth as you would expect with a brand new motor. This bloke has bought an expensive dud that is for sure
Hi Norm, these things are a knockoff of an ef2000is yamaha.
The chinese seem to have good taste as they either knock off the old honda eu (gentrax, mickeyblu gensets) or these yamaha (kings 4x4, repco, supercheap and full boar all sell these around the 2000w mark)
Its the little stepper motor assembly that sits atop the carby, a little cog in it cracks in half and its all downhill from there.
Hi Tyler You nailed it that is the one looks a bit different but the drive looks correct. I gave up on the thing and told my neighbour I was just going to put it back together which I have done and now it works fine. When I had the stepper motor in my hand and I pulled the trigger on the drill the stepper motor rotated so I knew it was working. I am guessing it had been assembled incorrectly at the factory, they are a tricky little thing to set up. It says 2200 watt but it started my 9 inch grinder which is 2400watt and ran it fine
Update on the generator, my neighbour ran it for an hour or so powering his fridge and all good. I think it was the plastic arm that the stepper motor fits into that had been fitted upside down. Wonder how many were assembled this way before somebody noticed this. Problem was when I pulled the stepper motor off the plastic arm fell off so I couldn't be sure which way it was meant to go on.
