Generator Advice needed

[julianthegypsy]

I hope this is in the right place. Mods, please accept my apologies and move if I've got it wrong.
A charitable group that I'm involved with has been donated three generator welders. These ones to be specific:
http://www.hisltd.co.uk/Mosa-TS-200-DES-CF.html
They are second hand but have been well maintained and are in good condition. They don't have a 240 volt output, there is a blank plate there and I don't know what's behind it as I haven't seen them yet.
Now the charity don't actually have a wellding requirement. They need to run power for a large kitchen, an internet cafe and to run power tools on site like drills and jig saws but nothing very heavy duty. I reckon they do need three generators. They have been given conflicting advice, and have for some reason asked me what would be the best thing to do.
Would they be better off selling these and buying some quiet generators (these are quite loud) or would they be better off using these. My opinion is that they should probably sell these and use the proceeds to buy a few quiet gensets. My question is, what do we think these are worth, and what would be suitable replacements and what would they cost? If the decision is made to sell them, I will offer them up here on their behalf if everyone thinks that's a good idea. Many thanks.

 

[HMB]

Sell them and buy decent genset

 

[NickyEng]

These are high quality generators Julian, they have the yanmar L100 engines not Chinese engines like some generators.
As you say they are noisy as not in silenced boxes but if you can live with that then wiring up the 240 socket will be a relatively easy job as the windings should already be tapped.
Value I would say they gotta be worth at least 1400ish each as a rough price

 

[julianthegypsy]

Sell them and buy decent genset

That was my view. How much should they be aiming to get for them, what would be suitable replacements and how much would they cost? I've seen honda gensets on evilbay very cheap, but I suspect they are probably knock offs, oh cynical me...

 

[julianthegypsy]

These are high quality generators Julian, they have the yanmar L100 engines not Chinese engines like some generators.
As you say they are noisy as not in silenced boxes but if you can live with that then wiring up the 240 socket will be a relatively easy job as the windings should already be tapped.
Value I would say they gotta be worth at least 1400ish each as a rough price

Thanks Nick, that's a good start. I thought the yanmar was a good engine too.

 

[HMB]

Have a look at s v withams. Ex stock mod gensets

 

[brightspark]

-4 k isn't a lot for a kitchen unless u intend using a couple at the same time . if u can get them sold for a good price u could get one larger genset to do the lot

 

[NickyEng]

Well a Honda SDMO 10kva petrol for example will set up back 3000 quid. They are not cheap but I reckon Julian could get 1400ish per genset as I said

 

[HMB]

 

[julianthegypsy]

Thanks, keep it coming. I don't think they need anything too big, but I think they do need several. I'm still finding out about the kitchen and what equipment they have etc, but for the building work they are putting up a lot of shelters so something that is very easily portable and will drive a few power tools is whats needed there. The cafe may be some distance form the kitchen so probably best off with a separate power supply. I'll try to find out how many computers they have then maybe we can work out the power requirements. We seem to be agreed that they'd be far better off selling the welding sets and buying jennies though, so there's a good start.

 

[julianthegypsy]

Incisentally, they have three of these in Brighton, but they have another three already on site, so potentially six in total. I reckon that should raise enough to handle everything they can throw at it.