Exercise genny while on shore power?
New to on board generators. Parked for the winter with 50 amp service, and it's time to exercise the genny. Do I have to disconnect first? 2006 Bounder, Onan 5500, ATS
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magicbus,
I think lots of folks (including me) are on limited budgets. I have to save in advance for repairs and/or upgrades.
Since the safest transfers are made with no load, I chose to NOT have a transfer switch. After all, one has to manually remove all loads, and then restart them after the generator is warmed up.
Then, along came hybrid load support inverter/chargers--which by their design include a transfer device. Once in a while (like when the Magnum hates a gfci) I long for the days of double conversion.
I think lots of folks (including me) are on limited budgets. I have to save in advance for repairs and/or upgrades.
Since the safest transfers are made with no load, I chose to NOT have a transfer switch. After all, one has to manually remove all loads, and then restart them after the generator is warmed up.
Then, along came hybrid load support inverter/chargers--which by their design include a transfer device. Once in a while (like when the Magnum hates a gfci) I long for the days of double conversion.
