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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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road-runner
Explorer III
Jul 16, 2016
My Onan Microquiet does not produce a a very pretty sine wave, and I could imagine a multimeter being fooled by multiple voltage peaks in a single cycle. Or as already hinted at, a bad voltage regulator could be mangling the waveform even more than usual. Listening to the video, the engine speed sounds close to correct as far as my ear can tell. Definitely a job for an oscilloscope.

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