 We are here to check out a generator that's not working correctly and Look at that. It's one of the old tan ones. These had all kinds of problems Yep, these are the ones I first started out on. Oh Yes, this one's the biggest pain in the hind end of them all. Let's see what went on Says over crank. This is kind of the brain dead version of all of them. This thing has very little to know Fancy electronics on it at all. It's plain Jane to the hill. No choke. No electronic governor So if your little springs get out of whack she Goes balls the wall and cramps 70 Hertz in your wall socket Let's See what happens here. So we got a solid over crank. You guys need to get rid of Stickers that somebody puts on you don't like them to use your hand torch to kind of warm the area up It'll peel right off just like a heat gun comes right off. Let's go back to me and y'all Oil level is the first thing I checked. I want to make sure that was okay before I just kicked it on more times And not oh, I can tell you right now. What's wrong? yep Battery exploded that was another humongous problem that Generac had they had a very very aggressive battery charger and It would overcharge the batteries and eventually bake out the water and They explode. This is a not the first time I've seen this. This is why I tell everyone change your battery every four years that seems a little extreme but You bought a generator to have it there when you need to need it to work Even though it's metric your 5 16th nut runner will fit it As you noticed we've got a real nice split there and Kind of surprising is and See what I've had happen in the past when this blows up like this if it's running It'll suck that acid right into the engine and then blow it all over the windings And then it shorts the windings out and then you lose the stator. That's like worst-case scenario But according to this Looks like this was changed Possibly an 18 You know Exide's a good battery. I mean that's what they recommend the 8 is taken out So I'm going to say actually 2008 so this battery should have been changed probably a long long time ago Let's go ahead and Make sure this battery charger is still working. Let's isolate this away from the battery here and See where we're at battery terminals here. You can see that those I'm probably okay. It looks a little corroded right there. We have 14.1, which is more than abundant Which is a lot of the reason why this thing toasts the batteries Barry chargers right inside here when those go bad. They're outrageously expensive I don't even recommend using the same one again. You're better off with a true trickle charger went and got a New battery die hard. So what I usually like to do is get this completely cleaned out As best as possible this acid crap that's just going to eat the paint up So we'll just get some of this nasty crap wiped out of here first and then I'm gonna spray some acid neutralizer on there to kind of Neutralize anything that probably got all over the place when it blew its guts all over the battery was at least four years old She said she didn't think it was original one. It tends to neutralize So we'll kind of spray that on there It's supposed to turn different colors when it hits acid We're gonna put that on the terminals here that way it kind of eats up that crap If there's anything bad on it, it should turn colors Like I said on that torch thing air just heat it up a little bit with your torch from a distance Pulls right off the oil is good to go. It's right at the perfect level another thing to watch out on these these Bellows here tend to rot out if that rods out it won't suck the fuel in because the fuel literally comes in to The box usually Yep right back here in the back Yep, there it is and that Intake compression stroke pulls the fuel right into the intake manifold there And if that's rotted it won't work and when I was looking at that sticker before I took it off It did say 2018 three years It just like I said, you got to keep a good eye on this water levels to make sure those water levels don't get too low I just got a junk screwdriver to Use on this and I want to use my good ones Because it will eat it up Water levels are good to go So we're fine there The day code actually is right here EOL letters I'm not sure how they're doing it, but it can be decoded generally a certain letter is equivalent to a certain number So we've got that All done So let's get this that that turn green is what it did It's kind of crazy Yeah, somebody's replaced The one I want to make sure that they'll have a weak strands. It seems like it's fairly strong I'll just use a regular old wire brush I had one of those little tools that you can buy that works good too, but that's brass that they put on there Supposed to Hook your ground up last See it says black. That's not even correct one originally. So somebody's changed that at one point in time or another I know a lot of Homeowners are watching these which is fine, but I don't provide technical support My original intent for any of my videos has always been to help the technicians out Then they've actually been through the schooling and stuff just a lot of liabilities on certain things I know you can do this you can do that. That's great. Whatever But in a so happy world that we got here to my best interest to protect myself So I put a little sticker on there for those guys that aren't paying attention And you check the water levels at the p.m. Got today's date on there get our protector sprayed on there It's gonna give us a little bit of protection against corrosion Wipe off the excess that's all over the sticker. So don't look so ugly We got most of all this wiped out. So let's blow some of this crud out of here see I'm able to get right in there and this when it's running is live voltage Wanted to make sure that these are actually tight Those are your control wires there that switches the transfer switch back and forth So there's actually 240 volts on the two small ones transfer switch DC voltage is on the other two I've got the fluke 87 5 good to go. Let's go to manual here That's not sounding very promising and I noticed that we're not blinking on our display here Sure, why did that in auto mode? should be blinking at me that it lost its exercise must have been powered by The utility so it didn't lose it, which is kind of surprising Let's go in here one more time see if we can get to start Stuttering going on Don't sound real smooth. We're running 247 check frequency. We're at 60 her so we're low on that Should be 61 and a half on the first spring 62 and a half on the other Check your voltage after that Let's go ahead get that tuned in here I'll do a lot of time while loosen up that one spring here Lately take it off We'll tune this into sixty one point five Meters a little too accurate so we can go ahead and put it on averaging sixty one point five Now we'll go ahead and put our spring back up. What happens is this starts to loosen up I like to test this thing to make sure it's gonna shut down And it went off on over speed so that safety is working like it should which is something I like to check when I'm doing my tests So to erase it you turn it to off back to auto if the power is out it would start back up These are the old generators They don't have any inner switches or anything like that so nothing major to redo if we wanted to reset our exercise We would just push that button down and hold it for about 10 seconds It would start you let off of it and the next week seven days from now will be that particular time Would be when it would start not fancy like the newer ones. Let's go ahead and restart it See now that the springs have kind of Changed their tension position see how it does I hear a little bit of stutter out of it These particular models here kind of sucked about having issues with their Regulator back here, which ain't really a regulator. It feels so annoyed. You know, I'm saying the actual tuning spot There's a little knob right here And what you had to do is actually set it for the highest speed if I remember correctly It's been a while. I might check that to see if it runs a little better And it's burning fairly decent and it's right at 30,000 may it may have been what it was so we're not out of Out of range. I'd have to pull it up to remember. This is running on propane Propane they would sometimes go with a smaller gap didn't always make a humongous difference, but It was something that they recommended back in the day Don't know if they're still doing it and it was only on this particular series I always like to check my battery cable connections here on the contact or make sure they're all tight Make sure everything's good to go there Let's get this back on there. You can tell that Starting to crack a little bit. It's getting older. Let's check our filter here Air filter is clean Everything's clean in there. You can check gas pressure and stuff like that Generally, it's not an issue too often The essential issue it has they didn't want to start and the battery was bad So you got to ask the customer do you want me to dig in nice and deep and turn and all these things? It really aren't really been a problem Which costs more time which costs more money So you don't really want to spend a bunch of time on things that they didn't ask you to do unless they're okay with That we could check our spark this little gizmo here It'll show you that it's getting spark, but it doesn't show you how strong spark is I've got one that's actually got the gap and you can see how far the sparks Can able to jump Which as fast as this is starting really not a whole lot of reason to I want to test this at the transfer switch So what we're gonna do see if it'll actually transfer over So what we can do is if you say you you're here and the homeowner wasn't you can literally unplug Their transfer switch here, and it should start up on its own and then when you plug it back together. It's gonna transfer over You undo that when you do if it's an auto mode like it should have been The green should start to flash which tells you that it does not have utility voltage And it should start up and it would switch over which it won't switch over with it unplugged until we plug it back in We plug it in it's gonna run for a minute, and then it's gonna shut back down So this should I'm just here a little bit of a stutter to it. It ain't perfect, but it ain't horrible Let's go ahead and plug this back in That should have switched it over Probably let's get right back real quick Yeah, point nine amps. So it's it's it's powering something really small So we know that it switched over it should switch back here in a second. That's gonna drop down to zero While we're waiting on that. Let's go ahead and make sure that green light went back to solid You can also check our amperage on our battery. This has DC amperage on it Got an arrow going through Usually you want that pointing towards the load 1.6 amps. I think it's pointing towards the power. I haven't checked the manual on it So to check in this direction, hit the hold button 1.6 in a positive manner. Obviously it's directional Right now it shouldn't be charging so it would be a positive and it's cranking if there would be a negative You'd also have the negative here It has a zero function so if you wanted to zero it out But it's just meter pretty good if I wanted to zero either way While it's charging it's charging in at 2.3 amps of current So you can see right away how much that battery charger is cranking in there. That's not a trickle at 2.0 whatever amps Now we'll go ahead and start it. You're gonna see this thing jump up to about Anywhere from 75 to 90 amps of cranking Watch this. We can probably do. I'm gonna see if we can do inrush. I'm pretty sure it'll do it Now for the usual generic meter that don't have that feature which very few do Here's what it would be if you're just watching it That's the reason why I like that meter Not too many of them got that. I mean you got some cheapies out there that can measure it But can they measure true inrush? Can they measure it in a quality? manner Unfortunately for the $380 $400 this thing costs You would think they could have made it in America, but unfortunately fluke did not they made it in I think China You know, just don't seem right that you can charge the premium dollar and you still couldn't have made it here. It's kind of sad Like I said, I was going for a while. So I wasn't able to check it out, but then I noticed Monday that it didn't Okay, and you know what you can do too is if you just opened up the generator and look on top here If it has a problem, it's gonna show a red light and so if there's a red light, that's bad red means stop It's done and you got a problem But if you have a green light then it's it's in standby the newer ones They put little lights on the outside to make it a little easier. She don't have to open it up But it's just as simple as turning the little knobs on the front and just open it up and then lock it back down Yep green green is good system set that means you're working if you got a red light Then you've got issues if they're all blinking it tells you right on the front here. What's going on? But yeah, we'll go ahead and set it right now by just holding the button down For about 10 seconds and it's gonna start up and run then it'll run for 12 minutes But you can stop it once it's started running. It'll it'll still hold that in memory So I've held So next week at about 12 14 area It'll be ready to go and I put it back on the auto auto is where you normally wanted at that means automatic You know when you need it off if it's an off you'll have no light So that's that's obviously bad because you won't have anything and if you put it on manual That means it manually will run just like you're starting in a lawn mower or whatever It's on auto right now. Yep, and everything looks pretty good. So you shouldn't have any more problems Yeah, absolutely. All right, so you've seen what I did there I educate the customer if they want to know more of more than happy to tell them exactly everything They'd want to know but it doesn't hurt to let them know how they can check these things on their own The more they know the better they're gonna be at telling you when things aren't right It shows them that you care. There's some that don't want to know that that's fine, too I offer the information and if they take it great if they don't that's great Whatever those are the things I like to do when I'm talking to my customer And so that's my little generic bag here unit is working like it should You guys go see firsthand how that exercise works. I like to at least at a minimum put a wire tie on This box they used to give us a nut and bolt for this I actually might have one on the truck. I'm gonna go and grab a nut and bolt that way kids can't get into it So I got the nut and bolt on there not opening up for a kid They can't get it off my hand, but you can take it off a pair of pliers and put a lock on there But then it's gonna be cut off when you lose the key Which is weird usually what ends up happening or it's rusted up or whatever that's gonna wrap this one up guys Hopefully enjoyed it if you are new to the channel. Make sure you subscribe. 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