SOURCE: portable generator head stopped making power
portable generator head stoped making power engine runs fine sircut brakers are fine
SOURCE: perkins 3 cylinder powered pramac generator
Start looking at your safety circuits.
1. High water temp
2. Low Oil
3. Low water etc...
From the manual these are the protection circuits.
• Engine protection: low oil pressure, high engine temperature.
• Genset protection: under/over voltage, overload, battery charger failure, battery voltage out of limits,
under/over frequency, start failure.
• Circuit breaker protection: IV poles.
• Differential protection.
Any one of them will trip the fuel relay closed. What you may be able to do is disconnect one at a time each protection circuit and see when the fuel relay opens. (Make sure to reconnect each one if it had no effect on the fuel solenoid)
Once you isolate which circuit it is in then you can chase wires or change the bad switch.
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Kelly
SOURCE: pramac E3600
If the unit has been sitting for some time, it will lose it's residual magnetism. There are companies that make a tool that will rejuvenate this issue, if that is in fact your problem. Most small engine shops have this tool and it's the quickest way to find out if this is what is causing your no output issue. It's called a generator reflash tool and it utilizes some "D" batteries and either a fuse or a circuit breaker. Takes about 2 seconds to do the trick. Some folks will tell you that it can be done with a 12 volt battery and a couple of wires. This is true but you have to be **** fast at it or you will have more problems than you bargained for. It's very dangerous! The flashing tool works the best. Costs about $40 to $50 though if you wanted to try it yourself. I would suggest a local outdoor power equipment shop first and see if it works for you. If this problem happened all of the sudden while you were using it, you may have a deeper problem like a regulator, rectifier or the stator itself. Hope this helps. Generator problems can be tricky.
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