Grit dog wrote:
Used to be the "recommendation" was to keep the field windings from de-magnetizing. Honestly can anyone who is adamant about this relate an actual experience where the windings needed re-magnetized or corrosion kept the generator from operating properly?
Funny you should bring this “recommendation” up.
A good friend of mine inherited the family summer place, on an island in the Great Lakes. Electricity is supplied by an old Onan genset. Maintenance involves changing the oil every fall (mid October) and then running the carb dry till ts sparked back up the following Easter.
It is well into mid 5 figures on the Hobbs meter, never an issue, ever.
The only difference between those old units and today’s units?
Cummins has more / better lawyers than Onan did……..