Brand New Onan QG 5500 not turning
Hey guys and gals, Total RV newbie here. Living fulltime in a Thor Windsport 34R my wife and I purchased about 6mo ago. I just tried to run our generator, just to break it in a bit, and it would...
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Happytraveler wrote:
Our Onan Generator in our motorhome will not work when the gas tank is 1/4 full. I guess it's a safety thing.
I believe the OP states the Onan will NOT attempt to start/turn over. That means he probably has a battery/12volt voltage problem. He needs to state if he tried to start the CHASSIS engine. His Onan may start from the Chassis and it is dead from 6 months of being parked.
Fuel at 1/4 is not a safety thing. It is to keep you from draining the Gas tank when on Genset and then having NO gas to start and drive the RV. ALL correctly installed gensets in a Motorhome have the 1/4 tank pick up system. Doug
