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Guy, I guess you mean I've admitted to being a problem for small retailers. Yes, clearly I admit that. In my small town, a group 24 battery from Walmart or Auto Zone, or Advance Auto (national retail chain stores) is around $100. The same battery from a local car parts retailer would be $150...

What do you mean when you say "Reading a 5 volt draw with a Fluke and no amps"? What were you measuring that read 5 volts on the meter? I bought two Walmart group 24 batteries for my 003a six years ago, and they still crank the engine like they're new. In my experience, all brands of...

No, once you have the end cover off, you should be able to find all six of the diodes without further disassembly.

The six rotating diodes are all in the same area. Look harder. :)

Sounds like the ones you tested are good, but there are three of each. Even if they all test good, it's still possible there was corrosion at their mounts, and cleaning everything before assembly could fix things.

Please see my edited post that's no longer what you quoted.

Edit: Upon further reading, my post may or may not have applied, and I didn't want to confuse the issue even more. Ranger Danger should post the manual for his RV where it explains the electrical system, and maybe confusion can be cleared up.

Q3 doesn't have much heat sinking on the board, so I don't doubt that it could overheat if it were asked to supply a lot of current, but: The regulator does not supply current to the exciter field, it only sends a small current, less than 400 milliamps, though the control winding of CVT1. When...

Oops... double post.

OK, that implies that the generator itself has something wrong. Things like the rotating diodes come to mind.

OK, so the regulator is not making excessive output, which would stop exciter current output from CVT1. Did you try the "start" position when the generator was running to see if the flashing current gets the generator producing output?

I work at home and can't earn money without power to run things like the lights, soldering iron, and test equipment. My wife also works at home and her business requires a working computer.

There are outages all over the area. We're not predicted to get it back on until 6 PM. The 003A is running happily. How many other have lost power so far?

You can read discharge current by disconnecting either the ground or the positive battery lead, but you need to use caution, because a meter set to read milliamps will blow a fuse if you accidentally draw a high current. Walmart batteries are not necessarily low quality. The two in my...

Those 50 or 60 milliamps will fully discharge a battery that size in about 42 days, assuming it's in good condition. I'm assuming the batteries have about a 50 amp-hour capacity. Something definitely seems to be drawing excessive current when the unit is off.

Small correction: EPROMs are programmed with electrical signals from a programmer. UV light is used to erase them.

When I was in grade school I watched my father order some chemicals for me by phone, for a school project. I was surprised and a little proud of him when I heard him say "Hobbs Company". I learned then that one just has to supply the information the other party wants to hear. In your case...

Actually, things like computer equipment that have switching power supplies might run fine on 400 Hz. The first thing the power supply does is rectify the AC to DC, and the rectifier won't care that the frequency is higher than usual.

EGR systems are designed to reduce nitrous oxide emissions, and won't do anything significant to reduce carbon particle emissions. The idea is to put a few percent of the exhaust gas back in the intake, which adds a small amount of CO2 into the incoming charge to lower its peak combustion...

If you have multiple loads like that, you can run one on one pair of legs and neutral, the next on a different pair and neutral, and a third load on the last pair and neutral (overlapping) and balance the load pretty well. It sounds like it might work very well for your application. The pumps...