Here I am again looking for sage advice from this esteemed group. Our narrowboat has a 43HP Beta engine fitted with a travelpower generator. The day before we returned to the US last autumn, the generator stopped working. Like any other alternator type of device, it occasionally would take some extra revs to make it "kick in", but it always did. Until this time. I am quite happy to fiddle around with 12V systems but when it's 240V I'll leave it to someone else.
To answer some of the questions you might have: - There are about 2500 hours on the engine - I had replaced the drive belts about 50 hours before the failure and had to adjust the Travelpower belt quite tight to eliminate kind of a drumming sound - yes, the belt is still on and adjusted - We had washed the boat the day that we noticed that the generator wasn't working. Rhapsody is a semitrad and I can't imagine that we inadvertently introduced any more water into the engine bay than some of the drenching rains that we've experienced. - I've tried resetting the breaker on the 240V panel - I read the trouble shooting part of the manual and the suggested tests are way more intimate than I want to get with 240V So, my questions are: - Is there anything obvious that I have missed? - We are moored for the winter at Enslow Wharf Marina on the South Oxford. Is there anyone in that area who knows how to work on these things? Thanks in advance for your help. John Glaves nb Rhapsody Chicago (8 inches of snow yesterday) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
