Product Manual

SERVICE
Have your generator serviced by a qualified repair person using only factory approved
replacement parts. This will ensure that the safety of the generator is maintained.
Incorrectly fied parts will void your warranty.
The equipment may only be used, maintained or repaired by those persons who
understand and have been instructed about the potenal dangers. Independent
changes in the equipment cancel any manufacturer’s liability for any damages that
result from these changes.
APPROPRIATE USE
Use the equipment only when it is in technically perfect condion and only for
appropriate jobs, with an awareness of safety and possible dangers, based on
observaon of the operang instrucons. In parcular, problems which could influence
the operaonal safety must be dealt with immediately.
All of the manufacture’s safety, work and maintenance regulaons as well as the given
norms in the Technical Data must be observed.
STATIC ELECTRICITY AND FILLING THE PETROL TANK
Stac electricity can iniate from un-grounded petrol tanks or containers, from flowing petrol
and persons carrying a stac electric charge. Stac electricity can explosively ignite petrol
vapours that are present during the fuelling process resulng in serious burns to nearby
persons.
Many objects can accumulate and retain a stac electric charge. Objects made of non-
conducve materials (eg. Plascs) easily accumulate and retain stac electric charge, as can
objects made of conducve material (eg. Metal, water) if they are not electrically grounded.
To avoid stac electricity while fuelling, certain steps must be followed before and during the
fuelling process in order to minimise and safely dissipate stac charge build-up:
Touch a grounded metal object before starng. Always dissipate stac charge from
your body before beginning the fuelling process by touching a grounded metal object at
a safe distance away from the fuel source.
Use a portable container to fill t
he tank. NEVER fill the engine’s petrol tank directly
from the fuel pump – the engine’s tank is not grounded and the high velocity flow of
petrol from a fuel pump can cause stac electricity build - up. Use an approved portable
container to transfer to the engine’s tank.
TYPICAL SOURCES OF STATIC ELECTRICITY HAZARDS DURING FUELLING
The following objects can accumulate a stac electric charge and cause an ignion spark in
typical fuelling situaons:
Ungrounded tanks/containers. Any ungrounded fuel tank or container can
accumulate a stac electric charge as a result of contact with other objects or
fricon during transportaon. This stac electricity can discharge as a spark to
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