AC Troubles - Hard Start cap? Something else?
Okay guys, new member, long time lurker. The missus and I finally bought ourselves a 5er, a 2004 Terry Quantum Ax6. It's huge and we have had it out a couple times. Got a great deal on it and we lo...
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Itching2go wrote:
You might also want to make sure you're battery(s) are close to or at a full charge when starting the AC unit. I had an instance where I was overloading our two 2K generators operating in parallel, and found that as my batteries were low, the load from the charger was such that it exceeded the output capacity of the generators when starting. I don't have hard start capacitors in either of our AC units, which added to the starting draw. No problem after the batteries charged up.
Good call. That could have certainly contributed on a couple of the attempts. However, like I said, I tried probably 25 times and most of those attempts were unsuccessful.
One of the several things that made me suspect the parallel cable wasn't working right (prior to the pins breaking out) was that when I would fire up the AC and it would kick out, I'd go outside and only 1 of the 2 generators had the overload light. Shouldn't both show overload when that happens?
Maybe I'm just a noob, but I would think if you were overloading with a pair of generators that were in parallel, it would kick both into overload. Am I mistaken on that?
