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aether_one · 02-17-2018, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by BillJinOR

Electric element heat for your hot water heater ? Switch the gas refer to electric .. they draw a lot of power with the heating element ...

Only 400 Watts for the fridge.

spritz · 02-18-2018, 04:21 PM

I put a container of water in microwave several minutes.
I like the idea about dinner in the motor home. All on genie,

Don't the genie also charge the batteries if low. Another draw.
I also have a space heater that is used. 1500 watt. being from Minnesota one need a space heater. If my furnace worked I would use that too.
Tim

Magnafique · 03-01-2018, 09:29 AM

Do you or your wife have a hair dryer? They can draw some significant power!!

TRebel · 03-01-2018, 10:07 AM

When I exercise my generator, I always run each of the three a/c units. Depending on the temp that day, I will run them on heat or cool and will usually let the generator run for 45 minutes to an hour.

F76Marion · 03-05-2018, 06:03 PM

Steppingstone,

I really don't care if you believe me or not, but the stuff about exercising a generator is something continued by the people that sell parts....

The drying the windings story is left over from pre-WWII. Back then electric machine windings were coated in a primitive lacquer that was not completely moisture resistant. Now, most use a synthetic lacquer that has zero permeability or even an epoxy.

If you are doing it to keep fresh fuel in the system, learn how to either shut off the supply and run it dry or how to drain the carburetor. Either is a good answer. If it is likely to sit for months unused, then find out about "fogging" the engine. If it is diesel, leave it the fuel system alone.

What does he know? Well, he was a ship's electrician who got a ticket and worked up to chief (S&M-U) and then came ashore to work in engine development for some names you might know.

Frank

Brentw · 03-05-2018, 06:21 PM

I believe you, up in the north we have plenty of equipment that sits for months, never did get the exercising thing.
Got an agricultural tractor tor that is coming on 50 some years old, he gets exercised in the spring, goes to sleep in the fall.
Lay it up, good oil, clean fuel, drain carbs if you can, fuel saver and a fully charged battery. See ya in the spring.

olcarguy · 03-05-2018, 06:52 PM

Yep sounds right to me. Put fuel stable in, park it forget it.

ArgoPilot · 03-08-2018, 01:45 PM

It's a good idea to run a diesel OR petrol engine and not let it sit for TOO long...especially with the bio (botanical, more like it) stuff in the fuels these days.

Running your clothes dryer is a good load...

steppinstone · 03-10-2018, 02:13 PM

Well finally got every thing up and running started coach first to charge battery's. Then the gen. took a while for it to start but got it running. I put the heater on the 2 tv's and played a movie and rear a/c on low. Between the coach and the gen. I let them run for about an hour. Thank's for the help as always

Waiter21 · 03-11-2018, 01:01 PM

IMHO;

The only thing that exercising my genny does is to prove that it started and ran. A mechanical device has a limited number of start/stop cycles, why consume them simply to prove that it worked.

When I know I'm going into hibernation, I run the genny out of fuel and it then sits until it comes back out of hibernation 6 or 7 months later.

I do the same with tractors, snow plows and blowers, etc.