Equip for Your Scenario
Up to lately with a 5er, camping in provincial parks in the winter off-grid, under the trees with no solar possible, and a two-hour time limit on generators 9-11am and 6-8pm (that one in the dark) usi...
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DiskDoctr wrote:
You have the Onan generator? I had made up a priming circuit for it that really speeds up the starting. Basically, a momentary switch that runs the little fuel pump near the generator.
Hold it until the loud clack-clack turns into tick-tick, and start it. Done
Hmmm ... that reminds me of a "labeling quirk" on the generator control panel on the wall in our Itasca motorhome: To start the Onan, there is a little two-way momentary rocker switch that is labeled "Start" on the left side and "Stop" on the right side.
The Stop position of course stops the Onan if it's already running. However, it the Onan is not running, the Stop position primes it and I can hear a muffled clack-clack of it's priming pump. I always prime it for a few seconds before pushing the left "Start" side of this rocker switch to start the generator.
We had owned our rig for some time before I discovered this double function for the rocker switch's Stop position (I should have read the manual sooner). I wonder how many other RV control panels have an Onan Start/Stop rocker switch that is labeled this way and operates this way ... unbeknowns to their owners??
