SidecarFlip wrote:
2oldman wrote:
My Hondas just need the bowl drained to sit for long periods. I've never exercised them.
If it's electronically excited (inverter) you don't. If it has slip rings and brushes, conventional genny, you do. Reason being is to keep the slip rings from tarnishing and to keep the magnetism alive in the armature.
Think I'd exercise those Honda's anyway. Keep the rice from clogging the mufflers.:p
The part I find suspicious is that the recommendation to ‘exercise’ an Onan didn’t begin 90 odd years ago when David Onan began building them, ironically for a friends summer cottage so it only ran a few months a year, it only started after Onan was purchased by Cummins.
A good friend of mine has a summer cottage on an island in the Great Lakes. His electricity comes from an Onan removed from a derilict motorhome. For many, many years it runs long hours over the summer then gets run dry of gas and left for 7 or 8 months then put back to work. I’m still never been an issue.
My own motorhomes were both parked for years before I bought them and VERY low hours so obviously NOT exercised regularly. Neither one of them gave me any grief when I lit them up.
I don’t believe that ‘exercise’ is needed by anything but the bean-counters in the warranty department.
