Generator Werk WPG-3600E

Inexpensive and lightweight Chinese generator with aluminum windings

30 August 2016

The need for a generator arose in the winter, when you and your wife spent the first winter in an old-new, or rather, in a thoroughly restored house outside the city. The power lines leading to the house are all overhead. And this, you understand, is not the best option in terms of reliability. Right in December the first serious failure occurred and there was no electricity for about twelve hours. And since the heating in our house is gas and a modern microprocessor-controlled boiler refuses to work without electricity, the issue of an autonomous generator had to be resolved quickly and decisively. That’s how this inexpensive Chinese generator was installed on our farm.

Small size and weight. Pleasant dimensions for such power allow, if necessary, to quickly take it out into the yard alone, connect it to the network and quickly start it up. The starter is manual, but I didn’t notice any problems with starting even in winter. The engine is four-stroke, 200cc in volume. It works moderately noisily, I thought it would be much louder. With a load of about 850-950 watts, it consumes about 1.4 liters of gasoline per hour. I think that this is not much and a full twelve-liter tank is enough for more than eight hours. Power up to 1.2 kW holds well, I tried not to load it more.

After the purchase and installation, I learned that the letter A in the marking means aluminum windings of the generator. It is clear that aluminum is a cheaper and less reliable material option. After all, its electrical conductivity is two times worse than that of copper, and its mechanical strength leaves much to be desired. Accordingly, the generator heats up twice as hot as it could with copper windings. Reliability is now also in question. However, so far I have not noticed any problems with heating.

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