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Well, thanks to the great kindness of a fellow forum member who I had not met previously, I now have the loan of a grunty 8kva job that runs the washing machine etc etc without blinking an eye. ...

I did indeed have to mess with the mixture etc to get it to run without surging. Maybe is it a simple fix by doing same again to achieve optimal rpm.
Thanks for al the great input

For heat, yes.

Generator does not trip a breaker, but starts searching, or surging when heater is at 50% and then dies when heater is at 100% (2400 w)

It would be lovely to have 3k plus to splash out, but not realistic right now unfortunately.
Guess the washing machine will be out of action for a while.

The original (siezed ) geny is a Powertec 3100 inverter model from Repco. Had it for almost four years and not done big hours as I only used it to run washing machine etc etc and top up house battery...

I dont consider lit to be loading up when gen set is rated to 3.1 and heater only 2.4.
Heater is a bi of an experiment due to design of the house. Wood is my go to

My cheapo 3500 inverter gen set just decided to randomly sieze, so I grabbed a spare that a mate had sitting idle.
It took a bit of tweaking, but I got it running. However! As soon as I put a load...