Exercising generator
Regarding exercising the generator under a load... Does the fan on the roof AC count as a load (just the fan, not the compressor)? I could add the furnace as well. I live in Minnesota so don't ...
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Matt_Colie wrote:
I have a better idea.
Figure out how to stop the fuel flow if it gas.
**If it is diesel don't bother.
Fog the engine if it is gas.
**If it is diesel, this is tricky as it will start and run on the fogging oil.
Then, leave it alone. Engines only survive just so many thermal cycles before things start breaking. This is why the old lady that drives a short ways to the market and church has so much car trouble.
As a ship's engineer that came ashore so he could have a family, one thing I learned was that the lacquer that was hydroscopic (so you had to warm up windings) when out at the end of WWII. So, that is no excuse (I don't care what the people that sell parts are telling you.)
Matt
We bought a new mh in '03 that I added an electric switch to the line going to the fuel pump. After using the generator and if we were not going to use it again for a while, I would turn that switch off and it run out of gas.
We traded that '03 in for a new mh in 2015, and in those 12 years we never had a problem with the generator.
The 2015 generator has a carb drain, but you drain it without it running, so there is still a couple drops of gas in the carb jets. Is that going to be a problem ? Time will tell.
Dusty
