I have a briggs and stratton 8500/5500 generator which I am using to power an air conditioner on a camper trailer. I just recently started having a problem where the one circuit breaker keeps tripping when plugged into the twist lock 120/240 volt receptacle. Sometimes the power to the camper will completely shut off even when the breaker does not appear to be tripped. I removed the circuit breaker and compared to the other one, it does not seem that it is resetting completely.

5,500 watts should do it because you need to consider the starting watts of your air conditioner and not the running watts, but if you want to run some other things you might as well buy an 7,000 watt genarator because the price isn't that much more depending on the brand.

I have a Briggs and Stratton 8,500 starting watts. I live in SouthEast Florida and I use it whenever we have a hurricane. I have it hooked to a transfer switch and it works everything except for my electric range and my three ton air conditioner. It will also work my hot water heater, lights, fans etc. I have only used it one time and it works great.

I plan to buy a whole house generator with the capicity of 25,000 watts so if you know anyone that could use it (even in it's original box stored in my garage, no rust or ware and starts on the first or secong pull) and they are in or near Boynton Beach, Florida then perhaps we could make a deal.

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Good luck,

Marty

your filter inside tank may be clogged take aome air and blow in the out let of gas to see if it maybe dirty. check the fuel line itself maybe weak inside and collaisping and not allowing fuel.

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check for a broken wire some where

home depot they carry a lot of differnt cords good luck

Briggs has recently upgraded the capacitors to 40 UF, 420V. Try ordering these from Preferred Power.

Hello, probably a really good guess is 2 1/2 to 3 gals. Oil type I would use cleaing additive multi-temperatur 10/15 or 10/20 well know brank. Synethic oil I don't know how well does it work in an air cool engine. GB...stewbison

Ensure choke is turned on while starting.
Ensure spark lead is fully pushed onto plug.
Remove spark plug and check there is a spark by keeping spark plug against body of engine and cranking engine, if no spark check there are no broken wires in ignition circuit.
Turn off gas tap if present. Remove the float bowl while holding a container under it to collect any gas. Turn on tap and check the fuel flows freely.
Check the air filter is clean. If it has foam elements these can be washed with warm water and detergent, rinsed and then oiled with a teaspoon of oil evenly distributed through the foam.

You will need at least a 5000 watt generator to run that and a few lights etc... for the camper.

heatman101