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joebedford
Nomad II
Mar 06, 2023

Overload built-in Onan gen. without popping a breaker?

I was testing my gas-powered Onan 5500 the other day. I was running both air conditioners and the water heater. It seemed to be handling the load well but after 20 minutes, it just stopped - no sputtering or anything - just spun down suddenly.

I was able to restart it and it worked OK but I'm wondering what would cause it to stop like that. There's plenty of oil (in fact maybe a bit too much oil).

No breakers were popped.
  • But if the generator overheats, wouldn't it give you an error flash? I didn't get that.
  • joebedford wrote:
    But if the generator overheats, wouldn't it give you an error flash? I didn't get that.


    Note, I posted my generator is a NHM. My signature says 95. No error codes back then.

    Richard

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