Ryobi 6500 surging

To be honest I'm not 100% sure what was on.
Fridges and geyser was off at the time.
In my study it was a single light and my 32" monitor / laptop.

Time to start tripping some plugs and find the culprit.

Edit: Two floodlights were on.
That'll do it
 
Isn't the voltage determined by the rpm?
Generally, but I've heard of the generators losing voltage even if it's turning, was reading when I had a surging problem and lead to me being a dumbass with fuel.
 
The surge on my Ryobi is caused by the choke. There is a lot of play on the choke butterfly spindle, around 1-1.5mm
The choke me genism include a vacuum servo that keep the chock e in the open position. The servo pushes the choke lever as fa as it will go against the stop on the choke lever which cause the choke spindle to tilt slightly causing it to close a few degrees. causing it to run to rich and causing the surge.
I hope I solved this by bending the stop on the choke lever slightly to reduce the amount of travel for the servo.
I run it for halve an hour and so far it seem to have worked. Choke.jpg

Choke open 2.jpg

The second image show difference in angels of the butterfly
 

Almost this morning again haha. Checked the fuel before firing it up.
Does the fuel ever evaporate? Jeez. Either that or I didn't put in as much as I remember.
 
The surge on my Ryobi is caused by the choke. There is a lot of play on the choke butterfly spindle, around 1-1.5mm
The choke me genism include a vacuum servo that keep the chock e in the open position. The servo pushes the choke lever as fa as it will go against the stop on the choke lever which cause the choke spindle to tilt slightly causing it to close a few degrees. causing it to run to rich and causing the surge.
I hope I solved this by bending the stop on the choke lever slightly to reduce the amount of travel for the servo.
I run it for halve an hour and so far it seem to have worked. View attachment 1165428

View attachment 1165432

The second image show difference in angels of the butterfly
Thanks

Will go looking for this guy later.

The spot where the generator is right now gets too much sun at the moment for me to comfortably work there.
 
Thanks

Will go looking for this guy later.

The spot where the generator is right now gets too much sun at the moment for me to comfortably work there.
I thought the surging was fixed as was just low fuel?
 
The voltmeter dips when the misfire occurs.
I'll plug in a digital reader and see what happens when it dips.
 
The voltmeter dips when the misfire occurs.
I'll plug in a digital reader and see what happens when it dips.
surely flickering lights would be frequency, lower voltage would make the lights dimmer? Although, I'm thinking incandescent lightbulbs.
 
Would the same apply to a coffee machine pump dipping? The lights dip as well.
The flicker is about the same on my 2600i as well. Much newer generator.

It is an incandescent light.
 
Would the same apply to a coffee machine pump dipping? The lights dip as well.
The flicker is about the same on my 2600i as well. Much newer generator.

It is an incandescent light.
I'm not expert but I would assume the same thing would happen with coffee machine, lower voltage = lower speed, not sure what happens with low frequency?
 
Cleaned out the catch cup below the fuel cock.
Will be replacing the spark plug tonight.
Maybe do the oil change if I have time / feel like getting dirty.

Tomorrow we get hit twice a kak times so I want to be prepared.

Just bloody expensive at 3l/hour to run.
 
New spark plug installed.

Seems to be ok now from the voltage dropping or at least what sounded like it.

Now it is just getting the lights to stop flickering. its quite bad.
 
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