We have owned our Westy for about 8 months now.
The generator always runs, but can take a long time for it to start. At first when we purchased it, maybe about 30-45 seconds of pressing the start button, then would turn over and run fine. Now it's up to about a minute or so.
We don't use it for much right now, but I do start it every month for about 30 minutes. I hope to use it shortly to charge the house batteries with our new charger via the DC converter.
Can't be good for the starter (or the house battery bank ) needing to try to start for so long. Once its running, all is totally fine, and has yet not to start.
Any ideas on what might cause this?
Also, on the inside control panel there is the "stop/prime" button. Does this "prime" the system with propane? I have tried it, but does not seem to make any difference.
Edit: I did clean out the rubber (breather?) tube, and put a screen over it, so that tube should be clear/clean.
The generator always runs, but can take a long time for it to start. At first when we purchased it, maybe about 30-45 seconds of pressing the start button, then would turn over and run fine. Now it's up to about a minute or so.
We don't use it for much right now, but I do start it every month for about 30 minutes. I hope to use it shortly to charge the house batteries with our new charger via the DC converter.
Can't be good for the starter (or the house battery bank ) needing to try to start for so long. Once its running, all is totally fine, and has yet not to start.
Any ideas on what might cause this?
Also, on the inside control panel there is the "stop/prime" button. Does this "prime" the system with propane? I have tried it, but does not seem to make any difference.
Edit: I did clean out the rubber (breather?) tube, and put a screen over it, so that tube should be clear/clean.
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