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Default generator problem(s)

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Sylvain VAN DER WALDE"
saying something like:

The most common cause of this on a genset that's been lying unused for
ages is damp in the windings.


How can damp affect _insulated_ windings?


They're only insulated with pixie snot.
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Dave