Mep-803
I rented a load bank. I wanted a 30kw but they only had a 100kw so I won’t be able to get much variations in the load to test with.
I didn’t get as early of a start as I wanted. I fired the generator up and decided to let it warm up before I put some load on it. So I went the bath room and came back. Right when I walked up to the generator it shut off...
It would not start back up because it tripped the CB1 breaker. I restarted it and it ran for 20 seconds and died and it tripped cb1. To I reset cb1 and and turn it to prime run and it tripped cb1....
I took much longer than I should have to figure it out. Turned out the primary fuel pump went bad?. It was pulling 16amps not making pumping noise then tripping cb1. So I stole a fuel pump from another generator and warmed it up and played with the load bank for a little bit before it was dark. I will run it for real when it stops raining.
Running this load bank in 120/208 3phase it looks like my options of load are:
3.5 kw
7.5 kw
~11kw
~15kw
After doing a short 15 minis of warming up to 11kw I set it to 15kw and it ran for about 15 mins then the overload light came on and it dropped the load. I need to find in the TM the overload parameters so I can test to see if it’s working. If anyone can point it out to me that would be helpful!
Also, given my above options of load, will running this generator all day at 11kw be a good enough test/work out?
Pic showing 16amps on fuel pump
https://youtu.be/mmRZN671W6o
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I rented a load bank. I wanted a 30kw but they only had a 100kw so I won’t be able to get much variations in the load to test with.
I didn’t get as early of a start as I wanted. I fired the generator up and decided to let it warm up before I put some load on it. So I went the bath room and came back. Right when I walked up to the generator it shut off...
It would not start back up because it tripped the CB1 breaker. I restarted it and it ran for 20 seconds and died and it tripped cb1. To I reset cb1 and and turn it to prime run and it tripped cb1....
I took much longer than I should have to figure it out. Turned out the primary fuel pump went bad?. It was pulling 16amps not making pumping noise then tripping cb1. So I stole a fuel pump from another generator and warmed it up and played with the load bank for a little bit before it was dark. I will run it for real when it stops raining.
Running this load bank in 120/208 3phase it looks like my options of load are:
3.5 kw
7.5 kw
~11kw
~15kw
After doing a short 15 minis of warming up to 11kw I set it to 15kw and it ran for about 15 mins then the overload light came on and it dropped the load. I need to find in the TM the overload parameters so I can test to see if it’s working. If anyone can point it out to me that would be helpful!
Also, given my above options of load, will running this generator all day at 11kw be a good enough test/work out?
Pic showing 16amps on fuel pump
https://youtu.be/mmRZN671W6o
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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