I have heard it said that familiarity breeds contempt.
Tom, I think that about sums it up as well as it can be. Besides stupidity for not disabling it, it's one of those deals where you just KNOW when the gen is going to maybe start because the bank is low or your wife turns on something big that draws a lot of power. Well, the bank was over 25.0 and my wife was outside doing stuff, so it's not going to start.
Who would think that the confounded thing keeps track of when it last ran and the exercise timer expired at the moment I decided to do this? I won't repeat the exact words I said when the freaking thing started, but I know I hesitated for about 5 seconds with one foot in the shop door and the other out, staring at it in total disbelief.
I keep the inside of that gen housing just spotless and it took me over a half hour to wipe everything down in there and clean up the mess. It only takes five seconds to go into the utility room and flip the GSM disable switch. You'd better believe I won't make that mistake twice.
The really bad thing is that the last time I serviced it I FORGOT to re-enable the GSM when I got done servicing it. I manually started it at the gen console to check for leaks and stuff, shut it off, picked up all my stuff and totally forgot about re-enabling the auto-start. Until the next day my wife called me on my cell phone and said the inverter was flashing a "Gen Failed to Start" error.
They say your memory is the first thing to go, but I can't remember who told me that.
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Chris