Generator hour meter has stopped working.

Thanks Doug. I will order a new hour meter and get it installed.

Vibrations of a generator. I counted on having arguments with diesel genset customers who wished to contain all of the accessories on board a generator frame.

My hour meter is installed on the stove hood in the cabin, not on the generator.

Steve

Few intricate electro mechanical gizmos can survive a few billion yadda-ka-yadda-ka-yadda...

Vibrations of a generator. I counted on having arguments with diesel genset customers who wished to contain all of the accessories on board a generator frame.

I refused to allow it. The argument was preferable to future service calls and furrowed eyebrows.

A fully electronic hour meter would be better but it would have to be of decent quality (provenance) to insure long life.

I like dual function hour meters. One scale for total aggregate hours, the second is re-settable for service due purposes.

AC or DC? How many hours does your generator operate without making electrical power?

Yours is 12 volt. ALL RV Genset hour meters are 12 volt. Doug

At least on my Onan generator panel, the timer is powered by the same wire that powers the indicator light that shows the generator is running. I think it's a DC signal, I don't remember offhand if 12V or 24V. The timer module probably is labeled with the voltage requirements.

I think it is broken - for a while it would tick and the numbers would wiggle but nothing happens.

I just want to know if I need a 12VDC one or a 120VAC one.

I could just pull it first but it's embedded in the stove hood and I'm not sure how much of a hassle it will be to disassemble to get to it.

Steve

The most common "Generator hour meter" is. in fact, a spring wound clock.. Like the dash clocks of the 1950's and 1960's it has a magnetic solenoid that "Winds" the clock (the spring is only good for a couple of minutes)_ when the spring is wound the switch that operates the magnet is opened. and as the clock winds down the switch closes, there is a soft "Click" lasting less than one clock tick and the spring is re-wound.. This is why the clock continus to run or a bit after you shut down the Genny.

Suspects if it does not work
Broken wire, no power to the wire
Dirty switch contacts
Bad magnet wireing
Clockwork issues (See a horologist for this one.. Folks Horus is the God of Time so a Horologist is one who studies time or time pieces, or fixes time pieces.)