{"id":20399,"date":"2013-07-25T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T19:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=20399"},"modified":"2016-09-21T20:16:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T17:16:27","slug":"non-working-remote-starter-on-the-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/non-working-remote-starter-on-the-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Working Remote Starter on the Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t going to worry about the remote (kitchen) starter for the generator not working until I realised that the hour metre also wasn&#8217;t working. I went under the sink and discovered that a connection for the starter was loose and one for the metre was broken. L said he can fix the broken connection since he has his soldering equipment.<\/p>\n<p>That left the starter. He went off to take a nap and I tightened the loose connection. I pulled out the multimetre and got 14.4V at the switch, which told me it was getting power and that the problem was at the generator.<\/p>\n<p>I went outside, pulled the cover, traced all the wires, figured out which one went to the generator start button, disconnected it, cleaned off the corrosion, reassembled everything, and went inside.<\/p>\n<p>Soon as I hit start, there was a rumble outside. Now, the genny won&#8217;t start since the choke needs to be manually activated, but this gives me hope that a bit of solder will get the hour metre working. No. Wait. I just started the genny from inside! OMG!<\/p>\n<p>I feel pretty accomplished. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t going to worry about the remote (kitchen) starter for the generator not working until I realised that the hour metre also wasn&#8217;t working. I went under the sink and discovered that a connection for the starter was loose and one for the metre was broken. L said he can fix the broken connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,4,635,5,807,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-haven","category-north-america","category-rving","category-saskatchewan","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}