Onan generator shorted (110 side)
Hello everyone. My 1978 Pace Arrow developed an issue. When the shore cord is pugged in to power it will trip the residential house breaker immediately. I traced it to the generator, which is an...
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Generator Jim wrote:
Last time I checked, Tampa Armature Works was charging well over two grand for the rotor.
Ouch! And if the stator is damaged, too .....
You can get a rotor rewound for less than half that price if it's not too badly damaged, but the best option is usually to find one with an engine that's shot and do a swap. Often, while looking for a donor, you find a donor in better shape, and just go with it as a replacement generator without doing any work on the damaged gen.
There are a lot of low time generators pulled from old RVs on Craigslist. I'm often tempted to buy them, put them into decent shape and wait for the next hurricane, snowstorm, or whatever when the gen prices seem to triple. I've got two right now, one on wheels that I can lend to the neighbors and one in the RV that I can switch to 120/240 to run my 240 VAC well pump.
