On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 08:21:33 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:57:56 -0700 (PDT), True North wrote:

Came back from walking the dog and started the generator up on the first pill. Let it warm up gradually opening the choke and then adding a space heater at the 2md level of three as a load. Then switched to the Econo mode. Ran maybe 15 minutes and died. Tried two pulls on the starter cord but it was dead. Looks like Tim may have called it right. Something may be causing it to flood. Back to the dealer tomorrow morning and I'll insist they run it for up to an hour with a load on.

Don, have you checked to see that the dealer did, in fact, put oil in the thing? What is the wattage
of your space heater. If too high, it will overload the generator.

The NEC and U/L will limit any appliance with a 5-15 (regular 120v)
plug to 1440 watts. Isn't your generator 1500w continuous and 2k peak?
If it exceeds the rating it should be tripping the breaker not
stalling the stalling the motor.