Generator advice
I'm looking at buying a generator. 95% of what I need it for is charging house battery while dry camping. The other 5% is to run the microwave for hot pockets and pizza for the kids. I borrowed a 2...
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BFL13 wrote:
My Briggs & Stratton portable gen has a red overload light that is supposed to come on and also the circuit breaker pops when it is overloaded.
Before that happens, when it is fully loaded and a bit, the red light flashes, but the gen keeps running the load. More load and the red light flashes faster. Reduce load and it flashes slower. Reduce load more and it goes out- just have the green light.
I have to run my gen with the red light flashing to run my 75 amp converter at 75 amps. Once amps taper to about 66 amps, the red light stops flashing and it is just the green lamp.
So---I suspect your gen is similar. If it does not pop its 120v circuit breaker, just leave it on to do the job. If you really do overload it, the CB will pop and that red light will come on like it means it.
Lol. That's exactly what happened with my other friends 2000w champion cube. The circuit breaker would pop after three seconds and you would have to shut the generator down to reset it.
