It's probably a precautionary statement rather than a "this will not work". Depending on the quality and size of the generator you could have issues starting the compressor for example and end up feeding high current into a stalled motor until a breaker trips. I would expect a modern geothermal system to have adequate controls and protection to avoid system damage but you never know. Maybe it's to avoid nuisance trouble calls for systems that aren't acting right on a crappy generator.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 10:05 AM Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: > My brother has a geothermal heating\cooling system. The primary reason he > got a generator was to run the geothermal system. > > The people that sold the geothermal system to him told him that he > shouldn't run the geothermal system on the generator. > > Why would this be? > > Could he purchase a line conditioner of some sort to clean the power > before it gets to the geothermal system? > > > > I'm not sure of the size, but it's one of those Bobcat portable > welder\generators and he hooks it up to a transfer switch at the meter for > his farm. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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