AUTOMATIC LINE GENERATOR SWITCH
I have a 2003 Forest River Geogretown 325 motor home. While staying at a county park we lost power at the site electrical post. We were in the middle of cooking dinner in a toaster oven so I plugged t...
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KD4UPL wrote:
I totally disagree that plugging into a 20A outlet destroyed your transfer switch.
Even so, you may need to replace the switch. I once had a 50 amp ATS made by Power Max go bad. Same problem, the contactor coils wouldn't pull the switch, they just hummed. This particular unit used DC coils so that when engaged they wouldn't hum. The rectifier circuit in the switch was only delivering about 70 volts DC instead of the 100 volts the coils required. The manufacturer couldn't provide a replacement. The switch was fairly inexpensive so it was just replaced.
Have you measured the voltage going to your coils? Does it meet the specification they require?
I agree.
