Running generator while driving in the rain
Just had my Onan QS8000 first service. The tech was very good at the Cummins Bridgeway branch. He advised against driving with the gen running in a heavy rain. That it could get water injested into th...
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sssooo wrote:
I was told the same thing after replacing my onan 5500W, he said the fan sucks air up from bottom and it can do damage while it is running while driving in the rain,makes since to me
I've never been told that, but it does make sense to me too. I can see how the motorhome manufacturers may not have planned for having the generator running while the motorhome was moving in the rain. Every time I check the oil on my generator I get a hand full of road grime. The generator is covered with it. So if running when that road grime was getting up there it would be clogging up the air filter.
