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Do me a favor. Get me a schedule of each panel. I might be able to help you figure out a different solution. Pics help too.
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When you get it to fail jump the oil pressure switch. If it still fails jump the temp switch. See if either of them keep it running. Then you need to determine if it's a bad switch or the switch is protecting the set
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First of all, how big is the house to have a 400 amp service? Second the short and easy answer is it has to carry the largest current potentially applied to it. So you need a 400 amp switch. You can go smaller if and only if you setup an emergency sub panel. Put all the loads you want to run on...
Yes this. If you have a voltage adjust and you are on the low side you may be seeing excessive drop. you can safely run at 125/250 volt (doesnt seem like much but it might be just enough to kick the motor over)
You are using 8AWG for a 3000 watt generator? way overkill but shouldnt be an issue.
out of curiosity what do you have the voltage set at? or is it non adjustable.
nice thought, but they usually increase wire size if its that deepdown. not to mention it would have to be fairly deep to have enough drop to impact current draw significantly
Its 3000 watt at 240 volt (approx 12 amps). And yes its quite common to have a motor draw 300% FLA on startup. In the NEC there is an entire section for motor protection because of this.
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Check the start capacitor on the pump and see if its in tolerance. You may be able to replace it with a "hard start cap". The unfortunate truth may be the generator may be too small.
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Sounds like it doesnt like the inrush of the pump. Is this a new problem or have you never run this pump on this generator before?
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whenever I get into a situation of things that should move that dont my first thing to use is knocker loose, its made by crc smells like pine sol and makes pb blaster look like water.
In my years, ive done grounding from houses up to industrial and a few cell towers too. Lot of cad welding and the weirdest overkill bonding. Worst one i had to do was a 110 foot rod. That one was in a delta field so 3 rods 110 feet apart 110 feet down. When I redid my home service the inspector...
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