Love my Jinma 284! |

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- July 26, 2012 at 11:59 am #34921
  Tinbender
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  That's great Tom . I'm using mine to dig holes for a fence and used one of the pallet forks I made to hold a roll of fence, it would have been a pain to get the fencing where I needed it without it, and I can roll it right off the tractor. I'm using an electric pole saw to limb trees too, it's hot and dry and I feel safer knowing I won't spark a fire like I could with a gas saw.
  
  Now if only I hadn't read the post on parts unavailability for the Quanchai engines.
- July 26, 2012 at 7:55 pm #34922
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  Can't agree more with you two. Wish I bought my 07 284 as soon as I bought my land. Got very burned out on the too big, too old, too expensive farm tractors. But then I might've got one with a Quanchai ? ! When did they put those in ? I heard it was for a short time but what year? Tom, have you changed the alternator? How big of an inverter can you run? Thanks, Fido.
  
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- July 30, 2012 at 12:26 pm #34936
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  No, didn't do anything with the alternator, and I mounted a 5000 watt inverter. Does just fine with the electric Troy-Bilt pole saw/weed wacker unit. The orchard is a long way from electricity so having 110V mobile on the tractor is great.
- July 30, 2012 at 2:20 pm #34937
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  Tom, that 5 kW inverter will probably come back to bite you if you haven't upgraded your alternator. Your OEM alternator and regulator are only rated for 14 amps (1,000 watts @ 12 volts nominal).
  
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- July 31, 2012 at 2:03 am #34938
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  As long as he lets the little alternator give the battery a full charge he should be okay. The inverter is/should be drawing from the battery primarily. I do agree that it will work the alternator pretty hard to keep up with the inverter if there's much draw, though. That's one reason I upgraded my alternator like you did, Bob. I want to mount my 2KW inverter on the tractor for things like pole saws and other tools, some of which will come close to the max the inverter will provide. I may even have to consider adding another battery. If so, I'll probably add a deep-cycle battery and an isolator/charger circuit like on an RV – use the deep-cycle for the tools and both of them for starting when/if needed. Just have to figure out exactly where to mount all that stuff!
- August 1, 2012 at 2:05 pm #34941
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  My experience has been good with very intermitent use of the pole saw. I had mounted a 2500 watt unit initially, and it would only power the saw on slow speed (it's a two speed Try Bilt pole saw). Didn't matter though as I unwittingly left the tractor and mounted inverter out in a big rain storm and the inverter guts were still wet when I turned it on again. Fried the thing! Might have just been fuses inside, but I went ahead and replaced with the 5k watt unit for more power…. and added a rubber boot to keep it dry!
- August 1, 2012 at 10:35 pm #34944
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  Where did you mount it, Tom? I keep looking at mine and not finding a really convenient place to keep it even halfway dry. I may have to give in a build a box for it, but if I can avoid that I'd like to.
- August 6, 2012 at 9:19 am #34959
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  I put it on the inside of the fender, behind the ROP bar, sorta behind the seat to my left. It just fit. Ran cables from battery, through a battery disconnect switch.
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