JimN wrote:Source of the post I haven't worked on or with Onan generators, but the shop where I took a friends' Kohler from his '89 Santego 38 told me that the generator should never be started with loads, nor should the switch be thrown to Ship's Power immediately after startup.
YMMV.
Good to see that it's working.
Although this is viewed as good practice I have never done so on the Avanti or now on the Carver and never had an issue.
I have a whole house unit at home. The 200A transfer panel switches over immediately after a power failure is sensed, it then fires up the generator which furnishes the entire house while under load. Guess what I am saying is all automatic home generators are started under load all the time.