Ted
The pilot formerly known as Twin Engine Ted
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Our house has a 20kW Generac standby generator - propane powered. This was seemingly put in with the house so it's around 14 years old.
On Tuesday I came home to find the generator running, meaning the power was off. Sure enough, power was off. Go inside and find that nothing is working - including all the things that are normally covered by the generator. Great.
I did some checks. The auto start seems to be working (obviously) and I can hear the relay click over in the indoor panel that sounds like it's switching over to generator power once I shut off the house power. The generator itself has a 115V 15A GFCI breaker, and that outlet didn't have any power at it.
I opened up the generator and used my multimeter to measure voltage at the wires themselves for both the 110 and 220 with it running - 0V in both cases.
Generac seems to not want you to find out how to fix the things. I could find a parts list but I couldn't find much else, and even the parts list wasn't very good.
I'm wondering if anyone's dealt with this before and found any good resources for fixing the issue so I can avoid calling an expensive repairman to fix something that will take me 2 minutes and a $20 part.
On Tuesday I came home to find the generator running, meaning the power was off. Sure enough, power was off. Go inside and find that nothing is working - including all the things that are normally covered by the generator. Great.
I did some checks. The auto start seems to be working (obviously) and I can hear the relay click over in the indoor panel that sounds like it's switching over to generator power once I shut off the house power. The generator itself has a 115V 15A GFCI breaker, and that outlet didn't have any power at it.
I opened up the generator and used my multimeter to measure voltage at the wires themselves for both the 110 and 220 with it running - 0V in both cases.
Generac seems to not want you to find out how to fix the things. I could find a parts list but I couldn't find much else, and even the parts list wasn't very good.
I'm wondering if anyone's dealt with this before and found any good resources for fixing the issue so I can avoid calling an expensive repairman to fix something that will take me 2 minutes and a $20 part.