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The only reason I can think of is if you delete it now then what has already been said will no longer make any sense. so the whole thread would need to go. Can you delete the links without deleting his pictures? That has most of the info he was trying to get across anyway. He does have some...

I have a sneaky suspicion your links are going to be deleted because they are to an auction and that is against the rules but I will say that anybody, and I mean ANYBODY, that would pay 10 grand for a little generator is totally out of their mind!!!!!!! And those are the exact shape of the...

Count me in, I am battery poor right now!

Oh I think SNAFU goes back to WWI. Not sure but it has been around for a long, long time. I think SNAFU was the original insult followed by FUBAR. Sort of gives you an idea of the GI's idea of how the military handles things. In some ways they are highly efficient but in others...

Aug. 1971, Fort Dix, NJ.

Hell, I saw stuff that defied understanding my first week of basic training! Where do you think the term SNAFU came from? :rolleyes: :LOL:

You KNOW they put that there for a good reason. I will bet the genset was a reset after it hydrolocked trying to start with cylinders full of fuel!

Very good info, and all the more reason I will never own a computer controlled genset!!! When I really NEED a set to run I want bare bone basics, if there is a problem it is easy to find and repair. My purchases of surplus sets ended with computer controls. Well, That and ridiculous Richie...

One of the BIGGEST problems with internet diagnosis is that you always have a lot of people that want THEIR fix to be the one that did it. So you end up with 20 ways to skin the cat. I give a person a diagnosis tree I want them to follow and if they cannot, or do not, do that then I back out of...

If they see ANY red dye at all in the fuel you are screwed. That includes any transmission fluid. If it is red it is off road fuel to them. I don't really know how they handle used motor oil, technically, you are using it as an on road fuel without paying tax on it so they "could" legally nail...

If you are talking fault codes then you are working with an ECM. And ECM's are basically computers so diagnostics will go beyond multimeters on a lot of stuff. And I was thinking more along the lines of the engines and engine controls since I am a mechanic and not much of an electronics...

Can you even work on these without a diagnostic computer? For that kind of money I will buy a commercial unit that parts are readily available for. I can have a natural gas unit set up for less than 8 grand! Power goes out and genny starts up, I don't even have to go outside.

True, you can. BUT, Can you use the Kill-o-watt to check the output lugs for 220-240 and 208 three phase? Kidding, but still, you really do need a multimeter when diagnosing electrical problems.

I would not rely on a Kill-o-watt meter for accurate reading! You need to use a regular dedicated multimeter.

And from what I have seen the IRS agents will be better armed than the Marines!!! If that guy got off for 3 grand and no court he was damn lucky considering the mandatory 10,000 fine. Sounds like the 3,000 went in someone's pockets!

You want to shoot for 61-62 with no load and then check it once loaded. The difference will not harm anything mechanical. Don't plug your computers into it until you get it all working correctly.

If none of the meters are working I would be looking at the connections for the control panel to make sure everything is plugged in. If it is then unplug it and plug it back in several times to clean the connections. But if nothing at all is working that is a lot of stuff that is going on so...

Oop's, Good point! But you never know, Farmers get really creative in the off season when they are bored. :LOL: All the farms I ever worked on had their own diesel tanks filled with off road diesel for all of the farm equipment and as long as they had farm tags on their vehicles they could...

Isn't that the same as off road diesel? dyed red? Get caught running on the road with that in the tank and it is a mandatory $10,000 dollar fine everywhere I know of. Unless you have farm tags. Even then it could get sticky on a road going vehicle.

Remember Guyfang, the 003 has a mechanical oil pressure gauge staring right at you so you can see the pressure as you start. My safety failed but the oil pressure gauge showed I had good oil pressure.