Friday, March 11, 2011

Honeywell HW2000i Generator - Problem: won't start

Late yesterday afternoon when we went to start our less-than-a-month-old Honeywell HW2000i generator-inverter so we could run our 12V battery charger for an hour, we had problems...

It started and then choked up and died after running maybe a minute. Pulled the cord a couple of times and it gave a bit of a cough and that was its last gasp.

At lunchtime today I tried to start it and no joy...

Later on, Bob tried with the same result. We checked connections to make sure nothing had vibrated loose, poked about inside at all the usual suspects, and all seemed well. Just about ready to call a repairman but we thought we'd swap the spark plug for a new one even though it has less than 25 hours on it.

It started on the first pull... Doing the happy dance...

We are going to lay in a supply of spark plugs :)