With cars, they have to run for a full minute or more, to
recharge the battery. so, it's likely your generator is
fine, but your starting battery is discharged.

My guess is you can get it going with a jumper pack, or car
and jumper cables. Battery that low, probably permanantly
damaged.

As to setting the sensetivity and timing, not sure about
that.

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"Way Back Jack" wrote in message
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The day that Irene came thru, I didn't lose grid power as
such, but did
have a series of outages that lasted 2-3 seconds apiece.
Unfortunately,
these were enough to kick on the generator, only to stop a
few seconds
later when the grid returned. And so it was on, off; on,
off; on, off .....

So now the generator's broken. Battery won't even try to
crank. All I get
is a grinding sound. Battery charger still shows a green
light, so I
assume that a connection(s) has come loose or some sort of
fuse blew.

Any ideas? Also, can this type of thing be fixed by an
electrician? I do
have a service contract with the co. that installed the
Kohler, and they
really know their business, but they are severely swamped
with repair
tickets, which is understandable. Finally, can the
automatic transfer
switch be adjusted to keep the generator from kicking on
until grid power
has shut down for 10 seconds or so?

Thanks,Jack