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Hmm, single phase 850 Amp Hour chargers are quite expensive and used ones a hard to come by, especially locally. Perhaps my best bet right now is to wire 3 regular car batteries in series just to see what other issues may exist before dropping any significant coin on a charger only to find out...

Street is 77 Rock Ave. :D Made it home with the Hyster and a few other goodies I picked up from another source close by. http://www.cstone.net/~dk/hysterhome-01.JPG Battery pack is completely dead as expected. Popping the metal cover on one side, this is what it looks like...

Hi Tim, I appreciate your feedback and you are correct that I'd be the only one that would capable of running the system once I'm done. I have owned/lived in this house for the last 15 years, and plan to be here for another 30 (I hope). That said, you are absolutely correct that one day...

I'm scheduled to pick up the Hyster tomorrow morning. It's at Fort Meade, MD. Unfortunately the GL website has been down all day, and I did not make a note of the address in Fort Meade where I need to go. I think the street number was 70, but I don't remember the street name. I called GL...

You're right that 200 Amp service is about 24kW. I actually have 400 Amp service, so that would be about 48kW. :shock::shock::shock: The thing is, however, that I would never come close to drawing that much. My water heater is propane, as is my cook top and oven. A/C is very high efficiency...

Well, I have 3 and none of them runs yet. Engines all need some degree of rebuilding, despite the units being 2006, 2007 and 2009 models. Being a gluten for punishment, I'm picking up 2 more 802s in similar condition on Wednesday, along with a 003. :D

Is the transfer switch like this one? That's what I installed at my folks house a few years ago. I'll dig around and see if I still have the installation manual for it. On Generacs, most of the "brains" is inside the generator itself vs. the transfer switch. You basically got your L1, L2...

Completed the #4 ground wire connections to both 200A panels and the transfer switch. http://www.cstone.net/~dk/xfer-9-29-01.JPG Closeup showing the 4 #4 runs from the service disconnect breaker. http://www.cstone.net/~dk/xfer-9-29-02.JPG I also completed the 4-wire run from the generator...

Ah yes, that makes sense. I can see why the code was changed. Back on 2012 when we had the derecho storm, we had no power for a week. My folks had a 15kw Generac standby generator, and it would trip when the water heater came at the same time the oven was running and the A/C (old inefficient...

I plan to get an auto start kit for the 5KW MEP-802A and default the manual transfer switch to it. This way, when the power goes, the 802 will come online and feed both 200A panels. Based on some testing I have done, with everything in the house running, including the heat pump in 2nd stage of...

Nice job! I plan to done something similar with mine.

Got the holes punched out and the conduits installed. 2 1/2" on top to carry 6 x 3/0 AWG and 2" on the bottom to carry 3 x 3/0 AWG. http://www.cstone.net/~dk/xfer-9-27-01.JPG I also got the house ground transferred from the main 200A panel to the service disconnect panel. It was a bit...

So I scored an Asco series 300 200A transfer switch on CL today for $300! These units normally run about $2000. I also picked up a 200A service disconnect breaker since the Asco is not Service Entrance rated. Here are a couple of pics of the pair: http://www.cstone.net/~dk/asco300-01.JPG...

I decided to do it the right way and found this slim 200A service disconnect that will fit nicely between the existing panels and then feed the transfer switch...

Hi guys, Tomorrow I'm picking up an Asco 300 Series 200A transfer switch. It is unfortunately not Service Entrance rated (doesn't have service disconnect in it). So that's challenge #1. Challenge #2 is that I'm wanting to feed 2 200A panels with it. I think my meter base is a 320A or 400A...

Thanks Mark. Good to know. I thought that maybe GL inspects each lot and assigns the condition code based on their findings. Didn't realize the code was assigned in the field.

Thanks. Appreciate all the excellent advice! Roll back wrecker might be the way to go. That way he can slide it off just inside one of my shop doors. When I go up to get the Hyster, I'm picking up some generators from a guy close to Fort Meade that says he may have a key for it and a battery...

Can I take the battery pack to a place with a "pulse unit" to get the battery going? Like a fork lift shop or something? When I go to MD to pick this up, I'm actually picking up some more MEP-802A's from another guy and he thinks he has a Hyster key and charger that he will throw in, so that...

Motorol?

Wow, yeah, will definitely take some ingenuity to get it unloaded!