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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Where is the air intake for the gen engine?
IF it has an open bottom and air intake pulls from that open bottom and you have road grime on bottom then YES........rain could be sucked up into air intake, clog air filter and possibly get wet air ingested into gen engine.
The generator will be fine...the engine??
Utility company power plant generators are sealed and pressurized with hydrogen.
Nothing leaks in....but if seals go bad hydrogen can leak out. Very, very rare event.
IF it has an open bottom and air intake pulls from that open bottom and you have road grime on bottom then YES........rain could be sucked up into air intake, clog air filter and possibly get wet air ingested into gen engine.
The generator will be fine...the engine??
Utility company power plant generators are sealed and pressurized with hydrogen.
Nothing leaks in....but if seals go bad hydrogen can leak out. Very, very rare event.
