Electrical questions
I’ll try to get everything in some semblance of order in hopes that it might help sort things out. Recently purchased a 27.5 ft 1993 Firan Telstar (on Ford E350 chassis) with 56K miles on it that had...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi,
Not a good idea to start the generator when connected to shore power.
Pretty generalized statement. I'm trying to figure out where this idea comes from.
Many, certainly not all, but many, especially older and smaller C class MH do not have a transfer switch. The genny has a TT30 receptacle in the shore power cord compartment and it outputs to that. Manual transfer so to speak. You gotta physically plug the shore power cord into the generator outlet. Rather screwup proof.
Even with a transfer switch (that is working correctly) whats to happen that is not good? Only issue is the A/C, and you need to make sure that it has proper time delays built in, or you have an EMS such as the Progressive Industries HW30C it has a built in time delay to prevent A/C re-start up problems.
Charles
