RE: field charging lipos
I have had the $85 gen for about four years now and have used it for fans, drills, hair dryer, coffee pot ,etc. I also know a few pattern fellows that are using it with no issue so thought I would do the same since I already had one. The first time I plugged my Cellpro power supply into it, it blew. I checked the voltage with my meter and the gen was putting out any where between 120v to 250v. It was spiking all over the place. There is no regulator on these things so it is governed by the RPM. So if you have a load on it or if the rpm is where it should be, you are getting away with it. I have heard some people using these are putting an inline voltage regulator on them, but those cost almost as much as the gen. Of course that would still be cheaper that the Hondas.
The good news is that my wife saw the thing pop and smoke so she said get the cheap thing out of the house and spend what ever you need to get a good one.
Allan