[Yachts]

The transfer switch has reared its head again. It won't engage the generator side. When I have pushed it down manually I got a polarity light above the dash.. how can the generator be a bad polarity? Wonder if it won't engage because it sees a polarity issue .? Or may be it thinks there is an issue..

[bikestuff]

I got the reversed polarity signal when water got into my switch and fried its brain. Fixed it by replacing the switch.

[Yachts]

Did it work on either side?

[bikestuff]

When It was broken, I had to jam the contractors with toothpicks to get it to work. It did not want to work at all.

[Yachts]

Thanks Bill, update the shore side is working fine.. I called the manufacturer and they have helped trouble shoot a couple of things. There are 2 lights on the circuit board representing line 1 and line 2 they indicate power coming into the box before the switches.. so I have either have something  loose or my generstor is not putting out power. My 220 fan is running so I must be making power.. I am going to use a volt meter and see if I have a loose connection or sour power.

[Yachts]

Tech support at the manufacturer of the surge protector kept thinking I have a loose neutral. But w hen I manually engage the generator side of the transfer switch everything works fine. So it must be something in the solenoid or sensors that engage the switch. There are 2 lights that show if you have power in on leg 1 and 2. They light up on shore power, they do not on generator power. And since these lights take their power from before the transfer switch I think my board does not know there is power there.

[Yachts]

Replaced the switch.. everything immediately worked fine. Sending the oldswitch back to the manufacturer

[bestgenman]

How many xfer switches is it so far?

[Yachts]

How many xfer switches is it so far?

I believe that's 5 .. I'm hoping new genset , inverter andand switch I've replaced all the possible issues.

[encantotom]

all of this was caused by the lightning strike?

tom