Your idea of a heater in good one. Up here in the frozen tundra we have outdoor control cabinets and transformers with heaters built in to keep things a little warm, but they are really there to prevent moisture build up by stabilizing the interior temperature. The good heaters have a thermostat and a humidity sensor to control the heater. This type heater is available from Hoffman engineering a cabinet manufacture. Be careful what you might choose to clean the switches. The LPS products are good and available from Grainger’s. I did a follow up call on a phone system once where someone thought that the spray cleaner they used to clean their shotgun would really clean out the dirt in the switches, but it melted the plastic just like it does the residue from a shot cup. I hate to step in it as I don’t know too much about your system, I’m new to this site and don’t know what the proper etiquette is, so if I’m taking the wrong approach let me know. It seems like your generator system has both local and remote controls. The more you have the more that can go wrong. Would it be possible to construct one good control panel that serves both remote and local locations? A local panel that plugs into a good multi pin connector locally, an extension cable with the same connectors would run to your remote indoor site where the panel would normally be. When you need to take the panel out to the generator and unplug the extension cable and plug in the panel there. This type system eliminates all of the local/remote toggles and puts the panel indoors most of the time. Hope this gives you some ideas.

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