How to excite Generator
Energizing (flashing) your generator with a car battery
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all right so I've got this troy-bilt
generator I bought it about eight years
ago I try and take it out about every
six months and run it however I was just
testing it out and I realized that it
runs just fine except the generator does
not produce any electricity I took apart
the actual generator cap there to take a
look and see what's going on didn't see
anything too bad and I read some stuff
online about flashing your generator so
essentially the magnets in here kind of
lose their charge they're not excited
enough to get started I don't completely
understand it but I understand magnetic
fields electricity stuff like that but
not enough magnetism in order to get
this part movie now the engine works
fine and yes I did check the breakers
and all that kind of stuff so the
strategy is to take a corded drill plug
it in here and what you need to do is
you need to hold down the trigger and
twist this backwards twist the the chuck
backwards so you're actually sending
electricity into the generator by
sending electricity into the generator
you can excite it again in order to make
it start running so I'm going to give
that a try here in just a second I need
someone to hold my camera
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all right well the drill trick did not
work so color me crazy here we know that
we have to be putting some energy into
the generator in order for it to
re-energize to get it working so suppose
the power's out what are you gonna do
well let's give this a try I have an old
plug that I sacrifice it was just in my
basement and either end is hooked up to
some jumper cables here jumper cables
are going to get connected to the
battery I don't know if it'll work let's
try it
we'll get it rolling and we'll see what
happens
so I'm not going to turn it on first I'm
just gonna put the leads on for like 10
seconds then I'm gonna unplug it and
then I'm gonna put it under load using
I've got a drill or a light over there
and we'll see what happens
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nothing works
when I had the generator on
and when I connected those just for a
second
then everything fired up now the
the motor was already running
but I wasn't getting the
until I connected to this connect just
for one second
working great now
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generator half
power 15 in the
just for a second
