Head scratcher with petrol generator

[2020c]

I have a Honda petrol generator for site work. Yesterday I was using it the whole day for the first time in over a year. It worked all day untill after 4pm then the 240 stoped working.

This morning I tried it again and nothing. Opened it up and the earth wire was out of the back of the blue 240 socket. Screwed it back on and run the 250 plug extension lead of it to my DeWalt wet table saw abd it worked. Tried my mixing drill and this wouldn't work. Tried it a few times and thinking my drill was broke I went to pick another one up however on the way I got another same generator and tried the drill on it and it worked. Tried it on my generator again and my mixing drill wouldn't work.

Does anyone know why my 240 socket let's me run my DeWalt wet table saw of it but once I put my adhesive mixing drill into it, it won't work but the drill works on another similar generator.

 

[jj4091]

Sounds like your mixer may be a much higher rated device than your saw & is causing a poor connection or possibly the capacitor to break down under the higher load. Get someone to check all the connections for you & if no problem found then try a new capacitor.