What Did I Do to Break My Generators???
I’m at a complete loss. I broke BOTH of my generators doing something very simple.
I currently have 3 (qty) 2400 watt Nothstar Generators. They have always run like a Swiss watch for me over the years. I have owned 2 others before these over the decades.
I currently need 3 because I’m off grid and have a living area and a workshop area to air condition.
Meet the generators:
Generator 1: bought 2 years ago. Ran for thousands of hours trouble free. Ran any time it was above 85F in Florida. Hard to even imagine how well this generator performed for a gasoline portable. Recently, the AVR (automatic voltage regulator) went bad delivering 90V instead of its normal 120.
Generator 2: Bought 6 weeks ago. in the work area running like a Swiss watch.
Generator 3: Bought 6 weeks ago. Carb started spraying fuel out the top after about 4 hours of use.
What I did:
I put generator 1 and generator 3 next to each other and set them on their ends so the power heads were sticking up in the air. Oil cane out the breather tubes. Whoops.
I then took off the face plate from the generator heads, took out the AVRs and swapped them.
Now neither generator will turn!!!
I cannot pull the pull start. It’s jammed!!
I can turn the generator in the opposite direction from normal rotation. I can even pull the pull start to turn it back to where it is jammed. But I can’t pass the jammed area in the rotation.
My mind is BLOWN.
I definitely caused this problem, but all I did was stand the generators on end and swap the AVRs. Then close them back up to test.
How on Earth can swapping AVRs on an identical pair of generators cause both of them to lock up at a certain point in their rotation, but still be able to turn backwards???
My head hurts. Can’t find the logic here.
I currently have 3 (qty) 2400 watt Nothstar Generators. They have always run like a Swiss watch for me over the years. I have owned 2 others before these over the decades.
I currently need 3 because I’m off grid and have a living area and a workshop area to air condition.
Meet the generators:
Generator 1: bought 2 years ago. Ran for thousands of hours trouble free. Ran any time it was above 85F in Florida. Hard to even imagine how well this generator performed for a gasoline portable. Recently, the AVR (automatic voltage regulator) went bad delivering 90V instead of its normal 120.
Generator 2: Bought 6 weeks ago. in the work area running like a Swiss watch.
Generator 3: Bought 6 weeks ago. Carb started spraying fuel out the top after about 4 hours of use.
What I did:
I put generator 1 and generator 3 next to each other and set them on their ends so the power heads were sticking up in the air. Oil cane out the breather tubes. Whoops.
I then took off the face plate from the generator heads, took out the AVRs and swapped them.
Now neither generator will turn!!!
I cannot pull the pull start. It’s jammed!!
I can turn the generator in the opposite direction from normal rotation. I can even pull the pull start to turn it back to where it is jammed. But I can’t pass the jammed area in the rotation.
My mind is BLOWN.
I definitely caused this problem, but all I did was stand the generators on end and swap the AVRs. Then close them back up to test.
How on Earth can swapping AVRs on an identical pair of generators cause both of them to lock up at a certain point in their rotation, but still be able to turn backwards???
My head hurts. Can’t find the logic here.
