TOP TIP: How to Clean Carburettor Jets on Hyundai Inverter Generators

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Annie

Here at Genpower, we take note of some of the most common mistakes that people make with our generators. This allows us to inform you about them to prevent you from making the same mistakes, meaning that your generator will last longer and perform a lot better!

One of the most easy and common mistakes made, in relation to suitcase camping inverter generators, occurs when people store their inverter generators for long periods of time (problems can occur in as little as two weeks) and leave the old fuel in the machine. This may cause starting problems next time you use your generator. Modern unleaded petrol has changed and is not as long-lasting as it once was. If petrol is left in the generators carburettor, then over a short space of time, it will start to deteriorate, go waxy and loose it’s combustion properties, making it difficult to start the generator. Eventually it can clog up the main jet or the emulsion tube which will also prevent the generator from starting. When this happens, the generator will not fire when attempting to start it. There is a simple fix if you know how. This involves draining the float bowl and cleaning the carburettor.

Draining the Float Bowl

The majority of the time, the problem can be solved by just draining the old stale fuel in the carburettor float bowl, if this fails, then the carburettor jets should be cleaned. To drain the float bowl, remove the 10mm head bolt (some machines may have a flat screw head) at the bottom of the float bowl, mounted at an angle (not the one in the centre, which is the float bowl locating bolt). The petrol in the float bowl (about 20cc) will flow out, replace the drain bolt, prime the carburettor about 30 to 40 pumps with the primer bulb (HY1000Si does not have a primer bulb, so pull start the recoil starter about 20 times) to refill the float bowl and try to start your generator, if it still does not start you need to clean the carburettor.

Cleaning the carburettor

This takes a few minutes and will also save you the cost of sending the generator back here to us at Genpower to fix something you could have easily done yourself if you knew how. Cleaning the carburettor isn’t a hard job, but it is inconvenient, so here we are offering some handy hints and tips to get you going in the right direction.
Firstly, remove the side access panel, then proceed as follows:

Remove the float bowl retaining bolt (A) (this is right in the centre of the bowl and not to be confused with the drain bolt which is offset) and float bowl (B). Pic 1
Remove the float pivot pin (B) and float (A). Pic 2
Unscrew the main jet and remove the emulsion tube. Pic 3
Blow out main jet and emulsion tube with an airline. Also blow out the hole where these were removed from and the hole from which the float valve was seated.
Reassembly is the reverse of the above.

A. Float bowl retaining bolt
B. Float Bowl
C. Air filter
D. Fuel tank
E. Carburettor
F. Fuel primer pump
G. Fuel filter

Float
Float pivot pin

Remove the main jet and emulsion tube with a flat screwdriver. Take care not to drop these jets. Blow these jets out with an airline to ensure they are clean. (The emulsion tube is a long tube located above the main jet).

Blow the main jet and emulsion tube casing out with an air line. Also blow out the hole where the float valve sits.

If your machine is left for more than a month, drain the petrol from the carburettor by either running the machine dry of petrol or releasing the petrol by loosening the float bowl drain screw.

So there it is- how to clean your carburettor jets on your Hyundai inverter generator with ease! Not difficult, but there are probably better things you could be doing with your time. If this is something you don’t fancy doing yourself, there are two things you can do to prevent stale petrol causing problem:

1. Make sure you drain the engine of all fuel, either by physically draining it or letting it run dry. If you are leaving the machine over the winter, it is recommended to empty the fuel tank and the carburettor, if just for a month or so, just drain the carburettor. This can be done by switching the fuel off and letting the machine run until it stops.

2. Use a fuel stabiliser which can give fuel a longer life, often between 1-2 years.

We hope this helps and you enjoy your Hyundai Inverter Generator!

Hyundai Inverter Generator- Helping to Discover Buried Treasure!

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Annie

HY3000SEI Inverter Generator- Helping you to find Buried Treasure!

Half a century ago, King Richard the third was killed during battle in the ‘Battle of Bosworth’. In the last few days, Archaeologists from Leicester University may have made a remarkable discovery- his long, lost skeleton. Experts believe that the Skeleton found matches evidence that they have about Richard III’s appearance. One clue is the significant trauma to the back of the Skeletons head where a blade has cut away part of the skull, an injury consistent with a battle of the era King Richard died. There are thousands of valuable, buried artifacts such as this, hidden in the ground all over the UK waiting to be found. But many are reluctant to try due to find them due to it seeming impossible, but cases such as these show that anything is possible.

So why can’t you be the next one to make an amazing discovery? Your discovery doesn’t have to be on the scale of a dead King, maybe buried treasure would take your interest more? Whatever you plan to look for you will need a few basic items to get you started. Handy items to take with you may include a shovel, metal detector, lights and a Hyundai Inverter Generator from Genpower.

A Hyundai Inverter Generator will come in extremely useful to power lights to allow you to carry on working all through the night, a laptop charger to power your laptop to record your findings and even a kettle to make you a nice, hot cup of coffee when your freezing cold but refusing to give up until you have found your fair share of treasure!

Genpower offer six generators in the Hyundai inverter generator range. These include the HY1000Si, HY2000Si, HY2000SEi, HY3000Si, HY3000SEi and the HY3600SEi. Every inverter generator comes complete with many high-quality technological features. The most impressive of these has got to be their awesome pure sine wave technology. This allows you to power sensitive electrical equipment, such as your laptop chargers, safe in the knowledge that the sensitive internal components and circuitry will not become damaged. As well as this, three of the inverter generator come with an electric start option which makes for a very easy start-up! As well as the traditional pull cord start, you can also just simply turn a key or press a button twice on a remote control from a distance of up to 20 metres away. This means that your time won’t be wasted walking back and for from your digging site to the generator, you can simply start the generator ready for when you need it whilst you work!

Every inverter generator in the Hyundai range can be purchased from Genpower Ltd, the UK’s sole importer of Hyundai power equipment and products. So to get well on our way to discovering the next great batch of hidden treasures, give the Genpower team a call on 01646 663848 who will be more than happy to help you choose the perfect Hyundai inverter generator to give you all the power you need! Or take a look at our website for technical specifications as well as plenty of photos and videos!

Paralympic Parties- Powered by a Hyundai Inverter Generator

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Annie

Paralympic Celebrations- Powered by a Hyundai Inverter Generator

The 2012 Paralympics have now come to an end. For the last eleven days, the Paralympics have graced our screens, bringing excitement, tears and joy to households all over the United Kingdom. Dedicated followers have watched the British team go through their many highs and lows, always trying their very best and doing Britain extremely proud with their top-class performances.

Celebrations will be taking place all over the country over the next couple of days, celebrating success and achievement of the Paralympians. One unexpected guest, (especially after the Summer we just had!), who will be joining in with everybody’s celebrations is the much-missed Sun. The last couple of days have seen parts of Britain soaking up the vitamin d and basking in some much needed sunshine, which came just in time for the Paralympic Closing Ceremony in London yesterday. And with forecasters predicting that this sunshine might be here to stay for the next couple of days why not get out and enjoy it?!

Celebrate the success of the British Olympians and Paralympians by hosting a Sunny beach or garden party with all of your friends and family. Cook up some British pork sausages on the barbeque and feel proud to be part of this great nation! And how can you make your party the best ever? Well Genpower Ltd have a simple, great idea- an Hyundai inverter generator to power your music, party lights or maybe even a kettle for a great British cuppa on the beach. So power up your new inverter generator and really get your celebratory party started!

Genpower offer six generators in the Hyundai inverter generator range. The range includes the HY1000Si, HY2000Si, HY2000SEi, HY3000Si, HY3000SEi and the HY3600SEi. Each generator ranges in terms of power output and starting method. The range varies from a maximum power output of 1kw all the way up to 3.4kw, which is pretty impressive for such a compact machine! One key features of these machines are their amazing pure sine wave technology. This means that the user can power their sensitive power equipment such as mobile and laptop chargers without the worry of the internal components and circuitry becoming damaged.

Three of the machines in the inverter generator range, the SEI’s, come complete with an electric start option which makes for an extremely easy start-up. This technology allows the generators to be started either by simply turning a key, or by pressing a button on an electric key fob from a distance of up to 20 metres away. The inverter generators have also been renowned for being extremely portable and lightweight with the HY1000Si weighing in at a tiny 13kg meaning that transportation of these machines should never pose a problem.

All machines in the Hyundai inverter generator range feature a sleek blue design, giving them the most high quality outlook allowing them to fit in perfectly in any home or professional environment.

So give the Genpower team a call on 01646 663848 or take a look at the website to find the perfect inverter generator to power your Paralympic and Olympic celebration party!

Hyundai Leisure Generator- Powering Gramping, the new Camping Trend!

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Annie

Our Summer is finally here!! Just as the Summer holidays have come to an end and the kids have gone back to school, the sun has decided to make an entrance and show its much-loved, sorely-missed face. And now with it looking even more likely that the rest of September might actually bring the Summer we have been longing for, we can finally relax and soak up some much needed vitamin d! But how can we make the most of the Sun over the next couple of weeks? By getting out and enjoying it!! Why not head out on a last minute weekend getaway and sleep under the stars on your very own camping holiday. And with help from Genpower and their range of inverter leisure generators, your camping holiday will be amazing!

Over the past couple of years, many different trending forms of camping have been increasingly popular. Up until recently, probably the most popular type of camping was ‘glamping’. Glamping is quite simply glamorous camping, meaning that campers would experience sleeping in the wilderness but with the added touch of comfort in the forms of a comfy bed, home essentials and often electricity from a leisure generator. But over the last couple a weeks, a new trend has started to be set- ‘Gramping‘. Gramping is camping with the grandparents! Recent statistics have shown that one third of parents in the UK rely on grandparents to look after their children during the school holidays. And with one in five of these grandparents taking a camping or caravanning holiday as opposed to going abroad, they have decided to ‘kill two birds with one stone’ and take their grandchildren camping with them!

A leisure generator from Genpower can dramatically transform your Gramping holiday. Not only will you be able to bring your home essentials such as a kettle for a morning cuppa, but also your much-loved extras such as hair straightners and mobile phone chargers so you can bring the benefits of glamping to the fun of Gramping! Genpower offer six leisure generator in the Hyundai leisure generator range, ranging in power from 1kw to 3.4kw meaning that whatever it is you want to take with you, Genpower will have the ideal leisure generator for you!

The smallest leisure generator in the range is the HY1000Si petrol inverter leisure generator. With a running time of up to 7 hours and a 1kw power output, this leisure generator is the ideal machine for powering your basic camping needs. As well as this, the HY1000Si leisure generator weighs in at only 13kg, meaning that it is extremely lightweight and portable.

HY1000Si Leisure Generator

So give the sales team here at Genpower a call on 01646 663848 who will be able to fit you up with the ideal leisure generator to make your Gramping holiday the best holiday you have ever been on! Or why not visit the Genpower website to browse through technical specifications, pictures, videos and more.

September Brings the Sun- Get Ready with an Inverter Generator!

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Annie

Hyundai Inverter Generator

August 2012 has been one of the wettest and coldest on record in the past one hundred years. But have no fears- September is here at long last and promises to bring us some much-needed sunshine in what is forecasted to be a ‘hotter than usual’ month. So dreams of sunbathing on the beach, having a relaxing picnic in the park or taking a much longed for camping holiday may finally become a reality within the next couple of weeks. Temperatures are expected to rise as high as 25⁰ in the capital within the first two weeks and thankfully stay around this temperature for the whole month.

So what have you got planned for when the sun starts to shine? One of the fastest growing summertime activities in the UK is camping and it’s not hard to see why! Who wouldn’t want to get back to basics and sleep out under the stars in the middle of the Great British country side, cooking sausages on the barbeque for Supper and making Smores (melted marshmallows on chocolate digestive biscuits…mmmmmm!) on your own campfire you made a couple of hours earlier? Well..quite a few actually! Hundreds of people all across the UK refuse to go camping every year, using the excuse that they just can’t live without one of greatest things of all time- electricity! They argue that without electricity basic ‘essentials’ such as hair dryers, hair straightners and mobile phone and laptop chargers all have to be left at home- a thought that they cannot bare!

But thanks to Genpower and their wide range of Hyundai inverter generators, this no longer has to be a reason not to take part in the annual family camping trip! An inverter generator will allow you to take with you a supply of electricity in order to power every home essential that you can think of! So pack the tent, food, inverter generator and all of your electrical must haves and head out on the camping holiday of a life time!

Genpower offer six inverter generators in the Hyundai range which include the HY1000Si, HY2000Si, HY2000SEi, HY3000Si, HY3000SEi and the HY3600SEi. Each inverter generator varies in terms of their power output, going from 1kw to 3.4kw maximum power output, and starting method. Three of the machines in the range, the SEi’s, feature an electric start option, meaning that the inverter generator can be started with ease either by a key or from an electric key fob at a distance of up to 20 metres away. But the key highlighting feature of all of these machines has got to be their amazing pure sine wave technology. This means that the inverter generators are gentle enough to power the most sensitive of electronic equipment without any damage being caused.

So give our sales team here at Genpower a call on 01646 663848 who will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have and will be on hand to help you pick out the ideal inverter generator in order to make your camping holiday the best ever! Or to take a look at technical specifications, a range of photos and 360⁰ videos, take a browse on our website!

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