Recent content by MGH

In the bathroom, if you cannot find any outlet at all, have you checked on the underside of a wall-mounted cabinet? This was exactly the issue in our RV. After replacing the GFCI under the cabinet, it and the 4-5 downstream outlets elsewhere in the RV started working perfectly.

Little bit different application than the OP has in mind, and is the "several hundreds of bucks" they're trying to avoid spending, but I'll leave my recommendation here for the Haloview BT7. I had been getting around fine with just mirrors in the last two years we've had the RV. But we wanted...

We finally stayed overnight in our RV 14+ months after purchasing it last June. This is a 2000 Bounder 32H on an F53 chassis. Been working on many different items during this time, and thanks primarily to this forum (and the grace of God) finally have all major systems running in good shape. Of...

I love a good root cause determination. Not kidding. I had a manager that used to say, "There's always a reason...". It sticks with me, there is. It may take a while, but I hope someday I'll fully understand what's been going on with this generator. In the meantime, and as it stands now...

I finally have some significant progress and will say that this is mostly resolved! When I started back at this a couple weeks ago, I found that my Kill-A-Watt meter was dead. Not sure how that happened, as I’d only ever used it for troubleshooting this one issue. But I figured, “That’s okay, I...

Here's our power center. It all looks in good shape to my eyes. I see the wires from SHORE and GEN power coming in (the four wire nuts at the bottom), then going back behind the breakers. And there's the one wire coming from the transfer switch behind the breakers into the 30A main breaker. This...

I did some more trials tonight. Part one was pretty much a repeat of yesterday. Part two showed some promise. But overall, it seems like this generator will start and run with light loads while cold, but has trouble with heavier loads when fully warmed up (oil pressure switch unplugged the whole...

Thanks again, @Lou Schneider. That explanation helps. I will go ahead and change my oil to 30 weight, and see what happens. It's certainly cheaper/easier than ordering new control boards and tracing all the wiring - and of course it's what I'm supposed to have in the genset anyway. This has...

I've been using 15W-40. I know I saw it in the table in the manual - and recommended in some guy's video on YouTube :rolleyes:. But you're right [again], Lou. Still I'm genuinely trying to understand what's going on here. If the difference in the oils is that my 15W-40 would produce less...

I was about to say, "Thanks, but nope, I've tried that already, AND replaced the oil pressure switch anyway." But because you said it I tried it anyway. The generator started, ran without having to hold the start switch down, produced 120V, and kept running for ~25 minutes. I could swear I...

I did exactly that earlier on. Fuel runs through fine. And as above, with the enable signal manually applied, the generator as a whole runs fine too. I'm pretty sure I've excluded the fuel system as the issue.

Thanks. I'll have to give that a try at some point. So far the internal antenna pulls in a reception perfectly.

I just updated the generator post here: Generator starts, runs, then dies It's a bit of a saga. I still have my fingers crossed that there's someone out there who'll have an Ah ha! moment and know just what the issue is.

I'm trying to make some progress again on this generator. Over the last few weeks, one of the Flight Systems technicians was helping me troubleshoot via email. As I was having the same symptoms with my original and replacement voltage regulator, we moved on and isolated things down to step 8 of...

Just sharing. This all went largely according to plan. This past weekend I took a break from trying to sort out my list of other systems (2000 Fleetwood Bounder 32H). Went from empty cabinets (besides existing 120V electrical) designed to hold an old CRT TV to a whole new system. 40" smart TV...