Generator Auto-Start

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We just entered The Wild Horse Hotel and Casino’s RV park this afternoon. We weren’t here for more than 2 hours when the park's power grid failed. My neighbor said it’s a daily occurrence and lasts for 1 hour to 4 hours.

I’m glad I didn’t have my Gen Auto-Start turned on as all four a/c s were running. I’m not a big fan of leaving the Generator Auto-Start function on. Here’s why;

A generator should be started with little or no amp load on it. Once started and running for a short warm up period, the load should be slowly added. The same procedure should be used when shutting down a generator. IOW, systematically lower the load before shutting down the generator.

If I have a shore power failure, my four A/C units SMX thermostats will restart all the powered-on A/Cs once the power is re-supplied by the generator. If all 4 A/C units were running before the power failure plus some other small stuff plus the inverters, the initial amp load on the generator would be extremely high.

If I have shore power failure, I would rather start the generator manually and add the loads one at a time.