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frank J P · 10-13-2016, 10:50 AM

Vehicle is a 2005 Monaco Cayman with a 5500 Onan genset. The genset will not turn over when pressing start button. The light comes on when priming. Light blinks when start button pushed, however will not turn over.

bronk · 10-13-2016, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by frank J P

Vehicle is a 2005 Monaco Cayman with a 5500 Onan genset. The genset will not turn over when pressing start button. The light comes on when priming. Light blinks when start button pushed, however will not turn over.

Mine does the same thing. Try pushing the start button a couple of times. I believe that the start function of the button is not always working on the initial push. I give it a couple of "jabs" and it always starts. Probably the rocker "button" switch needs to be replaced - when I get to it.

Bronk

frank J P · 10-13-2016, 06:13 PM

I tried that, Bronk, and nothing.

twinboat · 10-13-2016, 06:25 PM

It may be blinking due to power loss from a bad battery connection.

Check the positive cable on the house battery, the negative cable from the battery to the chassis and the ground cable from the generator to the chassis.

You may be able to see a bad connection spark, if watching them in the dark, while someone hold the button on start.

If you don't see anything, feel the connections for a warm one. That would be the bad connection.

CPTCARC · 10-14-2016, 10:56 PM

FAULT CODES
The genset controller provides extensive diagnostics
by causing the status indicator light on the Control
Switch to blink in coded fashion. Following a
fault shutdown, the indicator light will repeatedly
blink 2, 3 or 4 blinks at a time.

• Two blinks indicates a low oil pressure fault.
• Three blinks indicates a service fault. Press

Stop once to cause the two-digit, second-level
fault code to blink. (Pressing Stop again will
stop the blinking.)The two-digit code consists
of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 blinks, a brief pause, and then
1 to 9 blinks. The first set of blinks represents
the tens digit and the second set of blinks the
units digit of the fault code number. For example,
Fault Code No. 36 appears as:
blink-blink-blink—pause—blink-blink-blink-blink-blink-blink—
long pause—repeat
• Four blinks indicates that cranking exceeded
30 seconds without the engine starting.
• Note: Fault Code Nos. 3 and 4 are first level
faults. Avoid interpreting them as second-level
Fault Code Nos. 33 and 44, which have purposely
not been assigned as fault codes.

Restoring Fault Code Blinking – The fault code
stops blinking after five minutes (15 minutes, Series
HGJAA & HGJAD). Press Stop three times within
five seconds to restore blinking. Note that the last
fault logged will blink even after the condition
that caused the shutdown has been corrected.