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aahh ok gotcha. Yeah I have I think (4) for mine in the garage.
EDIT: Also if you are going through 1 a year maybe check all the wire connections and the grounds. Sounds like there may be a stray volt. Near strikes can do that too.
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ok so fan has been acting up all weekend and ultimately just seized, i put in a replacement motor friday, i should be getting it in a hr or 2, the hard part was removing the fan from the motor, 30years of rust, lulz, lots of wd40, i even sanded away all the rust, and i could not pry the motor from the staeder, had to use the hydrolic kit to break it apart
my neighbor thought i was in trouble, i guess cuz theres an ac unit just all taken apart, lying on top of another ac unit, i told him i'm just waiting for the new motor to come soon.
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Yep.
They all use some variant of a ripped off Honda/Yamaha/Kawasaki engines design. Hence the nicknames Chonda, Chamaha, Chawasaki. A lot of these engines come out of the same factory, and use the same type generator units. The BIG difference is support. Champion has good support and prices. Same thing from Harbor Freight has bad support but same price.
Beyond that, break in care on these Chinese Piles of Shit means quite a lot. Run them at light load for 5 hours and change the oil after. Change at every 5 hours after that until about 25 hours use. If it hasn't blown itself apart at that point, it probably won't. Really important to get that oil changed every 5 hours from new, though. General care, too. Use non-ethanol fuel and stabilize before tucking them away for half a year. Modern corn fuel is shit and plugs everything up pretty quickly even stabilized.