3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
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dcs1968 wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am looking for help in troubleshooting my Chicago Electric 96898 Generator. I was using it out in the desert to power my travel trailer and it was working fine when I shut it down. When I fired it up to use again I had no juice. We were getting ready to go home so no biggie.
Now I am out in the garage and have checked the breakers and they are fine but I have no power going to the breakers so now I need help on where to go next. The troubleshooting steps in the manual consist of 4 steps for no voltage output: (1)check and reset breakers (2) have a qualified tech check the capacitor (3) Check outlets (4) Check power cord.
The only capacitor I found is on the AVR so now I need to know how to test it. Can I use my trusty Fluke meter? And if so how?
Thank You
From experience, try the capacitor"avr". If it is a brush generator, make sure brushes are not worn. Smell the windings, if they smell burnt, then they would be shorted out. You can check for continuity of the windings across each field.
