Need help to night
My brother is pluged in to his generator 110/120? Outlet. Both mine and his cheap meters says he getting 130+ But he keeps blowing the breaker on the get set. Any ideas why hes getting 130 to start with and blowing breakers?
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DSDP Don wrote:
You don't say what you're trying to power with the generator. You need to make sure that you don't have an electric water heater turned on, battery charger on coach/trailer turned on while trying to power other things.
This.
The breaker trips because of too much current draw, that is, too many things plugged it and running.
IF the breaker holds with nothing plugged in, the gen is probably OK.
Outside chance the breaker itself is bad but probably not.
I have a bad habit of forgetting to turn the A/C off when changing power sources.
You probably are drawing too much current because of too many things turned ON or because one of the devices is defective........or a fault has developed in the wiring.- You don't say what you're trying to power with the generator. You need to make sure that you don't have an electric water heater turned on, battery charger on coach/trailer turned on while trying to power other things.
- sounds like a portable generator ?
what brand what model ?
sounds like the voltage regulation is acting up/not set correctly
130v is a little high but not outside of limits
tripping the breaker is possibly something, surging (load spiking) on the higher voltage
try turning off the converter charging the batteries and make sure the fridge is on propane (manually set to lp)
some times the electric heating element becomes leaky, and will cause a GFI breaker to trip
or turn off ALL circuit breakers in the 120v electric panel
start generator
plug in
turn on only ONE circuit breaker at a time
i hate typos..and i get them a lot..gaaah
