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ETN550, thanks for your post. Jonster emailed me a schematic that I thought was correct for his generator, but I just checked, and it's for an MEP-016B, so I've been helping him based on the wrong diagram!
If you have 24V on both sides of CR4 and not at the fan, then the wiring must have a problem. From the schematic, if the battery is installed and charged, the fan should run until the battery runs down, even if the charging system isn't working.
I think you're seeing relay contacts that resemble the symbol for a capacitor. When A2S1, the master switch, is in the run position, and A3K4, a pair of contacts of the low fuel shutdown relay, is closed, the "noise kit fan", if you have one, should run. "A3K4", for example, is a set of...
I'm afraid I'll need more resolution to be able to read anything on it.
ETN550, I agree that capacitors do fail with age, but as I said above, the burned part is a diode, and they normally do not fail with age during our lifetimes.
CR14 is a diode. It's a little 1A diode. You can use a 1N4004, 1N4005, 1N4006, or 1N4007 to replace it. What Steelypip said still goes though... it's likely that something overloaded it to make it burn up like that. If you can get me a schematic diagram, I can give you an idea of what to...
The diodes usually have a part number on them. Can you see the number on a similar one or post a photo? I looked for a schematic, but haven't found one yet. Unless D14 is a big power rectifier diode with a stud mount, I bet you can use a 1N5408, which is an inexpensive 3 amp 1000V diode...