Rewiring Generator

[mahon1993]

Any one have any experience rewiring their Onan 7.5 Diesel ginny to get 220 volts out of it as well as the two 110 volt circuits?
Thanks,
Greg

[adj]

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Originally Posted by mahon1993 Any one have any experience rewiring their Onan 7.5 Diesel ginny to get 220 volts out of it as well as the two 110 volt circuits? Thanks, Greg

I guess I'm missing something---- If you read across the 110V legs, you should have 220V.

[mahon1993]

The way the generator is set up is that there are two seperate 110 volt legs. Reading across the two 110 volt hot terminals gets you nothing. I want to be able to get 220 out of it so I can use it to power up my well pump at home during a power failure. I am currently using a too small portable gas generator for power failures that has trouble statring my 220 volt well pump.
Greg

[adj]

OK. I stand corrected. The generator puts out two 120V of the same phase. I'm not sure it can be rewired for 220V output.

[Route 66]

I don't believe it's possible. It's my understanding that it only generates 120V.

[caymann]

Only Onan 10kW and 12.5kW can do that. These have real 240VAC outputs
ie two 120V with opposite phase. The smaller size Generators are inverter based
and cannot provide two 120V output with opposite phase, thus a zero volts across them

[wa8yxm]

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Originally Posted by adj OK. I stand corrected. The generator puts out two 120V of the same phase. I'm not sure it can be rewired for 220V output.

A lot depends on the junction box. MANY generators can indeed be rewired.. Consult the owner's manual to see if your can

220 volt is a single phase. it is not two 110 volt out of phase windings

It is two 110 volt windings in PHASE but "Stacked

So you have

a-----b-----c

A to b 110
B to c 110
A to C 220

NOTE if you wish to use 120 and 240.. Same concept.

[mahon1993]

As far as I got was to open the cover to the connections on the gererator. There is a green ground, one white netural and two hots, red and black. There are two netural connections on the term strip with one feed and a jumper between them.
I get zero volts between the two hots. 120 from either hot to netural or ground.
I'll have to open the book and look at the schematic and see hows it's wired. I don't have too much hope on getting 220 out of it. Maybe I need a heafty step up xformer to get my 220v.
Greg

[Boiler Maker]

May be easier to rewire your pump for 110v. That is what I did during Hurricane Rita. That way I ran it off a small gasoline generator.