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Well.....I am now a firm believer in the deoxit. Sprayed it in the switches and exercised them and the load meter sprung to life and appears to be acting normal. The Gunk brand electrical cleaner did nothing. I could actually see crud coming out of the bottom of the S8 switch tower after...

I also checked the wires going to the elements. Each of the wires all 8 of them are carrying just over 10 amps each so elements are all working. It has to be in the wiring somewhere or the switch or meter itself.

Zed, My load bank control is a normal breaker box. a column of 3 breakers for each hot. Each side is 2 220 double pole breakers and one single pole 120 breaker. I will keep messing with it. At the moment running the wire down from the roof after installing the solar panel I took off the...

And on the S1 switch after I sprayed it I noticed it was quite a LOT harder to turn. The switch would actually get stuck at preheat. After turning it a few times to every position except start when I did try to start it all I got was a relay click no start. After a few tries it did turn the...

I sprayed gunk electronics cleaner in the switches, is all I had on hand but did order some Deoxit so will try that Monday when it arrives. I spun the AM VM switch at least 50 times each direction but made no difference I did notice something odd that MAY help someone diagnosis the...

I have a clamp meter and did verify the output, that post is on the first page of this thread somewhere. It was 39.? and 40.? per leg so the output was there the meter just did not agree. At the 39 and 40 amp output per leg the meter was at like 25-30% and should have read close to 100%. That...

Zed, I guess what I'm asking is where to spray the contact cleaner.....just anywhere on the switch and it will get inside???

I think I am confusing everyone including myself.....so when in doubt, pictures:) This switch? Or this switch? If it is that second one where exactly in that TOWER that it is connected to the back of the switch do you spray exactly?

Hello Daybreak, In searching a bit ago I did see that. So exercise the switch behind the control panel correct? Tried that turning to all 3 positions a dozen times or so with no luck. I know I am probably not going to like your answer but....for that switch it would require taking the...

That is unfortunate, had hoped there was something I was missing. I can live with a bit inaccurate but off by 50%?? That is just going to bug me. I will see what I can find online as a replacement. Stock or not I don't care about.

Zed, I tried that, don't think this is a calibration issue with the meter. There is not near enough adjustment to get it close to accurate. With the adjustment I can get it to go from 30% on meter to 50% on the meter but no higher at 10kw load. I removed the leads to the ammeter and cleaned...

I finished the load bank today which is 4 220V 2500W hot water tank elements and 2 120V 1500W elements in a 55 gallon drum. After a warm up I applied different loads and the Gen handled them fine up to 13k. I let it run about 15 minutes on 10k watts and other than quite a bit of smoke, least...