Onan Generator Overheats and shuts down.
I have just purchased a new 31 foot Fleetwood 2014 Terra SE and have had a Generator issue. When running the Generator while traveling down the road, it shuts down after 2 or 3 hours of use. The Gener...
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ArchHoagland wrote:
On our last trip a couple weeks ago it was 100 degrees in central Californis and our generator shut off as we were driving. Not unusual as it has always shut off when it got really hot and we were moving.
However when we got home it was about 105 degrees were we live and I fired up the generator to run the air conditioners while we unpacked the coach. It never did shut off even after an hour and a half.
My Onan 5500 brings in air at the bottom of the unit and it's my belief that the engine heat is causing the overtemp to shut it down. It sucks a lot of air when it is running.
My plan is to put a wireless thermometer at the air intake and see what temperature air is going into the generator while we are driving.
That is exactly my point. If you have a gasser and your genset is at the front of the coach, it gets all that hot air from the engine. Not to mention road temps and tranny. All compounds the issue. That's why I chose a solution to pull air from the side of the coach. Problem solved.
