I searched and checked and can't find that listed in the prohibited items. I got a small one with few hours, that would sell here for very little, and shipping that box would cost me under USD 70, so... Any idea? Tks
I would do it if I were you. I know lots of guys who sent small engines in BB boxes in the past and I have no reason to believe things have changed. I would be careful about labeling it. A box labeled "generator" might go missing easier than a box labeled "nuts, bolts and miscellaneous". As car parts are prohibited, I would be careful not to use the words car, part, or engine in your description.
Mechanical governor, cheapie, no inverter. Easy to adjust: in my case I may slow from 60 to 55 or 50 to ease off on the little engine!!! As for the 110, being an ABnormal person, my place anywhere will be a proper split phase with the appropriate outlets. [if there is guests, there will be courtesy cheapo flimsy plug adapters available...] BTW: on UTube I saw ph BOHECO utility yards full of SPLIT PHASE pole transformers, and obviously the center terminal is not used. But the vid mentioned that on request the customer could get the 3 wires... And also a customer can own their own pole transformer -which should go a long ways on avoiding sagging voltages. Looks like I'll ship some sort of "home electrical backup system". Or "anti brown out electricity".... LOL. I'll just make sure the gas is fully empty, ask some absorbent padding, and double seal for smell and fumes.... No huge loss in any case: was an on sale special. Tks guys!
It arrived OK to Panabo. And yes it is 120 Volt AC of course in Kanada. And 60Hz as is proper in ph. Most places in ph use pole transformers that are US 60 Hertz design, with the *three 120-Neutral-120* terminals on the low voltage side. For whatever reason customers do NOT request the Neutral connection on their "Service Drop", and so are stuck with the bastardized 240V at ..... 60 Hz. Just spent 2 mo in Panabo, and all the pole transformers I could see [did not have binox....] were the same US style, with only a small ground wire on the Neutral "middle" transformer terminal... ONLY TWO wires on the customer "service drop", LOLOLOL.... So that apartment did NOT actually have a proper *single phase* 240 {50 Hz.....} but in actuality it was 2 opposite 120 phases. Which I confirmed with a MMeter while dragging an extension cord aroud.... As I could not find a piece of metal anywhere that would indicate a voltage. Only when I tested against the wet CR floor drain grate could I see the extension cord did NOT have 240 and zero, but indeed 120 on both sides. To note that the Utility was only TWO wires, no ground supplied. I looked carefully at the bank of 5 apartment meters, and no sign of a ground rod there either! Worse yet, the feed going to ea of the 5 apartments was only TWO wires, zero green ones. I then removed the front panel of my breaker box and sure enough, the input was only 2 conductors. Not even a little wire connected to the metal box.... Followed the TWO conductors going to the dedicated a/c outlet... a wonderful 3 pins outlet, with a wonderful factory 3 pins a/c cord plug.... So the window ac case is NOT connected to anything AT ALL! Those things tend to be quite wet! I'll never understand why expats are so frantic about "110".... while everything around them, including wet areas, has zero ground connection, zero RCB, zero GFCI... Aren't we all very interested in "safety"? Is it legal in the countries we come from to have 120 Volts on ALL the Neutral contacts around the house? End of rant! Christian
