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sunshinelock
Explorer
Jul 14, 2016

Video: Onan 3600 LP Generator Hunting Surging 300 to 400 Hz

My generator is propane. It was running my air conditioner fine yesterday then shut down. It's been surging since. I did a bit of research and see that it could be the governor. I was going to see ...
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Chris_Bryant
Explorer II
Jul 15, 2016
Tom_M wrote:
Something is wrong with your meter. At 300hz the generator would be turning over 15,000 rpm and would self destruct in short order. The AC voltage rises when the RPM increases so 126 VAC indicates that the generator is probably only running slightly over 60hz.


x2- that thing would be screaming.

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