Do you exercise your generator in the winter?
How many of you exercise your generator monthly during the winter? Obviously this only applies to those who have to winterize and store your unit... I bought my first RV right at the end of the se...
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Bobbo wrote:
You may want to inform ONAN about that. My ONAN manual says the reason to run the generator at at 1/2 power is to dry out the windings.
I've never seen such a statement, the manual for my Onan KY says;
"Exercising a genset drives off moisture, re-lubricates the engine, replaces stale fuel in fuel lines and carburetor and removes oxides from electrical contacts and generator slip rings. The result is better starting, more reliable operation and longer engine life."
Of course that's Onan, Honda says to just drain the fuel from the carb and leave it alone, so does Hyundai, Yanmar, Kubote and Kholer. In fact I couldn't find a single other manufacturer that said a generator needs to be 'exercised.
But then they don't have the dependability issues that Onan has either.
Maybe that paragraph was written at the behest of the lawyers and bean-counters?
