Your last generator Maintenance Run

[grsthegreat]

Back ice-storm here, Central/East Ontario.

Out for 14 hours @ home, 7kw Briggs did fine. Needed the sump pump moving a LOT of water, job done.

Electronics..... some interesting things along the way. Got up @ 3am, could see this area not yet reported to hydro (Canuck Elec Util), so called on my wife's cell that I had the map on...... after about 10 minutes, it wasn't a "normal" call drop (lousy cell coverage), but got a BIG pop-up that said "This network is not supporting Voice calls at this time". Shedding load, with the tower on Emerg pwr.....

So, one of the reasons I still have a landline, is for times like yesterday...... spent 30 minutes on hold, to get someone live to report the outage early. Then..... got my gen running in good time.

New UPS doesn't like the AVR on my 7kw (kept switching back to battery, when the 7kw was under light-load). Haven't studied it further yet.... something for my ToDo list.

Internet was down, I'm on cable, and the pedestal boxes only have enough battery for a few hours. Buddy 2 hours away (same storm, but hit worse), had fibre down for a while too...... Starlink does look good, for times like these....

Hoping you don't NEED to run yours soon, but wishing they start-up fine if you do....

Rgds, D.

I have a smart meter on the house, and this auto reports power outages.

 

[Robin Veerman]

Yep, been running my Reds for about 12 hours, alternating between the two, since Sunday due to the ice storm here in eastern Ontario. Restoration is promised for tomorrow late. Time will tell…

 

[LittleBill21]

Back ice-storm here, Central/East Ontario.

Out for 14 hours @ home, 7kw Briggs did fine. Needed the sump pump moving a LOT of water, job done.

Electronics..... some interesting things along the way. Got up @ 3am, could see this area not yet reported to hydro (Canuck Elec Util), so called on my wife's cell that I had the map on...... after about 10 minutes, it wasn't a "normal" call drop (lousy cell coverage), but got a BIG pop-up that said "This network is not supporting Voice calls at this time". Shedding load, with the tower on Emerg pwr.....

So, one of the reasons I still have a landline, is for times like yesterday...... spent 30 minutes on hold, to get someone live to report the outage early. Then..... got my gen running in good time.

New UPS doesn't like the AVR on my 7kw (kept switching back to battery, when the 7kw was under light-load). Haven't studied it further yet.... something for my ToDo list.

Internet was down, I'm on cable, and the pedestal boxes only have enough battery for a few hours. Buddy 2 hours away (same storm, but hit worse), had fibre down for a while too...... Starlink does look good, for times like these....

Hoping you don't NEED to run yours soon, but wishing they start-up fine if you do....

Rgds, D.

UPS's generally don't like non inverter generator due to the Frequency moving up and down more than .5 hz

 

[grsthegreat]

UPS's generally don't like non inverter generator due to the Frequency moving up and down more than .5 hz

I have 5 ups devices. They never have any issues on my 22kw generac.

 

[LittleBill21]

I have 5 ups devices. They never have any issues on my 22kw generac.

I have 13, never tried a generac, is it an electronic governor? I have tried 4 different non inverter generator's all the cheap units don't handle the generator if not inverter.

 

[LouNY]

Never a bit of trouble with my 25KW pto unit, the ups's just charge backup and sit and wait.

 

[Popgadget]

I have 13, never tried a generac, is it an electronic governor? I have tried 4 different non inverter generator's all the cheap units don't handle the generator if not inverter.

The 22kw generac does have an electronic governor that uses a stepper motor to control the throttle governed by output frequency. My UPS’s are fine with it as well.

 

[LittleBill21]

The 22kw generac does have an electronic governor that uses a stepper motor to control the throttle governed by output frequency. My UPS’s are fine with it as well.

yea it prolly holds the hertz better, the mechanical linkages don't seem to be able to keep under .5hz which most of the cheap units require.

 

[grsthegreat]

What popgadget says…… they also have a low thd so work great with electronics overall. When mines operating during power outage, nothing flickers or moans. Hard to tell im not on utility power.

 

[Rustyiron]

I have a smart meter on the house, and this auto reports power

Me too, but it's unable to communicate to the grid and neighbors are a long way off.
They still come and read it monthly and this is for many around here.
Iirc at the time, they were getting highly paid by BO's administration so it was a profit item for the utility.