bishopNlouisiana
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I have a 52 8n BUT IT'S FINE. mY QUESTION IS ABOUT THE COIL ON MY 1965 ARMY GENERATOR.
We lived thru Hurricane Laura for the last few days and i tried to use my old military generator that I've had for three years. Every 2-3 months and let it run for about 20 minutes. I fire it up and the electric starter works perfectly and it runs and sound great for it's age. I have changed to oil and I wired it in to our "Outside Kitchen," with breakers and a switch to disconnect the building form the power company. This is our place to go during bad weather outages
I thought it was the perfect setup till Laura came.
The problem is it will start and run for right about 30 minutes and it dies. And will not start again for at least 30 more minutes. It's like it gets hot and dies, cool down and starts again for two days we went thru this.
Question the experts here because its like my old 8n, Could the Coil be overheating and cooling back down with damage to the coil?
We lived thru Hurricane Laura for the last few days and i tried to use my old military generator that I've had for three years. Every 2-3 months and let it run for about 20 minutes. I fire it up and the electric starter works perfectly and it runs and sound great for it's age. I have changed to oil and I wired it in to our "Outside Kitchen," with breakers and a switch to disconnect the building form the power company. This is our place to go during bad weather outages
I thought it was the perfect setup till Laura came.
The problem is it will start and run for right about 30 minutes and it dies. And will not start again for at least 30 more minutes. It's like it gets hot and dies, cool down and starts again for two days we went thru this.
Question the experts here because its like my old 8n, Could the Coil be overheating and cooling back down with damage to the coil?