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Title: Generator Starting button
Post by: Tom West on March 23, 2019, 07:45:04 pm
We presently own a Foretravel 2002 U320 and are having trouble starting the generator from inside the coach.  After leaving the repair shop it worked fine and after spending the night at a Wall Mart parking lot I turned the unit on from the inside and later had to turn it off from the outside. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Generator Starting button
Post by: red tractor on March 23, 2019, 07:48:59 pm
Might check the switch over the bed
Title: Re: Generator Starting button
Post by: fkjohns6083 on March 23, 2019, 07:53:57 pm
You probably have several options for starting the gen set.  Try starting and stopping from all points and see if you can isolate the problem to a specific switch or other control component.  I had a circuit board go out on our gen set and had to have it replaced.  I thought it was a switch at first, but further testing proved it to be the circuit board.  Have a great day  ----  Fritz
Title: Re: Generator Starting button
Post by: folivier on March 24, 2019, 06:56:17 am
Tom on my 1999 FT I had a problem where the inside switches wouldn't work and ended up changing the latching relay inside of the control box on the relay.  My generator is a 10Kw Powertech so yours might be similar.  I also had a lingering problem with the generator randomly shutting down which turned out to be bad wires.  See this post:  Generator not running (http://www.foreforums.com/index.php?topic=34110.0)