Greetings,
The RV ONAN 6500 watt Emerald III will not start.
It had issues, such as only running with the start button held down. It was not reading voltage I guess.
Would not start from the drivers dash--would only run with the drivers dash controls unplugged from the genset.
I did take it to a shop in Reno, last early august and they fixed it. They replaced a couple parts, did
a service on it and said it was running great. I don't recall the parts replaced, but it wasn't the stater.(?).
Only thing I did before re-installing it was take the covers off and clean the mouse house/droppings etc,
as the shop would not do that, well they would but they charged a lot for the cleaning. I was careful and
don't think any wiring was affected.
After re-stall the generator would not start. Acted like a low battery, hard cranking. I charged the batteries,
they were bought new in 2013. Still acted the same. I did buy a new set of cables, but have not been able to
install them, as the RV is in Susanville, CA in storage and we are in northern Idaho.
Before I took the genset out , it would only run with the start button depressed and if i jumped the generator
with my pick-up. May just be bad cables, the ends are clean...but didn't want to rely on that being the problem,
and ending up with no power on the playa. Or maybe a bad battery?...
I know this is vague and I certainly am no expert on gensets. Any insight would be appreciated.
I do have a construction grade generator, but do not want to bring that to the playa, its very loud.
thanks
