On Friday, 16 March 2018 09:22:09 UTC-3, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/16/2018 8:15 AM, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:09:01 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/15/2018 3:51 PM, Tim wrote:

1:57 PMTrue North
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.

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If it can’t run with a space heater it’s surly not going to do a furnace or appliance. don, if they say it’s fixed, and when you go to pick it up, I’d light it up right in the parking lot like you did. If it dies out, let them know that’s unsatisfactory, call me when it’s done and don’t lie about it. Leave it right there in the parking lot, turn and walk away.....



I am thinking it may be the vent on the gas cap. Little lever you move
from "off" to "on". Should be moved to "on" while running.

It is spring loaded on the underside of the cap. It may be bad, not
allowing air to vent to tank. The fact that it ran for 15 minutes then
died and wouldn't start again makes me guess at this.

Can't imagine it suddenly getting "flooded" after 15 minutes of running
but I guess anything is possible.


He could loosen the float bowl drain plug and see if there's fuel in the bowl. If it's full, then
the cap wouldn't be the problem, I'd think.

It sounds a lot more like fuel starvation than too much fuel.



Me too. But, it's new and I agree with Don that if he continues to have
problems it's time to return it for a replacement.

I watched a bunch of videos about cleaning the carb, the needle etc.
Didn't realize how complex it is. It has a motor driven widget on top
of the carb that is controlled by the "Eco" mode switch. It regulates
the RPM for the load when the Eco is "on". It's amazing to me that
mine runs so well after all the hours on it and I've never even changed
the spark plug.

I also noticed that the original eu2000i has been replaced with a newer
version. I wonder if Don's is the original or the newer one.

Mine is the "Cold Climate Technology" model..what ever that means.
I have it running outside right now...almost 20 minutes in.