avalen wrote:I just figured out today I have a maintenance routine for my generator as I go through my owners manuals.
and I still have a question on that! I'll post separate if I can't find the answer.
Well, the first good rule of thumb is to run it monthly on a load for an hour. A load refers to something that "tugs" at the generator -- usually something that requires quite a few amps of power. We've taken our rig out on a weekend, gone to breakfast, and run the AC or our space heater for an hour. Or we use that time to do a major cleaning, running a vacuum along with the AC. If we're going camping & the weather's warm enough, we'll turn the generator on & run the house AC as we drive.
Ours needs an oil change every 50 hours. And there's other servicing it requires regularly, but I don't know offhand what it is.
When people say that the generator they're trying to sell you on has hardly been used, consider that a red flag. They're meant to be used, and if they're not, their carburetors can get really gunked up.