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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okhmbldr wrote:
My question on this subject is; wouldn't the generator have the same amount of water splashed on it while driving in rain or deep water, whether it's running or not? Just a thought.
If it's running it is "sucking" air. If you splash water on the place doing the sucking it will suck that water into the engine. If it isn't running then it isn't sucking and there's no danger of water getting into the engine just from water being splashed on it.
