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I told you they retired.
98-19541 is the government drawing number and 29410 is the vendor (TRC) part number.
I don't know why they don't recognize the numbers.
If and when you call TRC don't ask for Marge or Ray they both have retired.
The GFCI on the 3 kW is a 10 amp.
On one of the 3 kW's I rebuilt I just put a regular GFCI outlet from Home Depot on it.
How is the main contactor issue you were having (not latching)?
I remember a long time ago one of our supply chain workers took all the mounts and put them all in one bin on a shelf, cause they all looked the same, boy did that cause big problems during assembly.
Some one had the nice job of separating all of them, and I believe the only way to tell the...
Sorry
Only way I know of is to check the part number on the mounts.
Like I said they look the same and are interchangeable but the 10 kW mount on the 5 kW will cause issues.
I can tell you that a lot of 802's had oil press switch wires that broke at the connectors.
When we have a set that vibrates a lot sometime we rotate the generator.
Disconnect the rotor and rotate 90 degrees and reconnect to the engine.
These 2 cylinder engine do vibrate a bit, some more than...
Sounds like you either have a winding out on the PMA feeding the inverter or blown fuses on the inverter input.
There are fuses inside the inverter they look like resistors but are marked F1, F2 etc.
You can check the input to the inverter very easily by disconnecting the P15 and P16 connectors...
K15 and FU1 are AC so I doubt that has anything to do with your DC problem.
K15 is the starter cut out relay when there is AC voltage from the inverter this relay energizes and prevents you from re-engaging the starter.
FU1 is the AC to the battery charger, there is a separate winding in the PMA...
Remember, you can't measure across the meter, you have to take one of the wires off the watt meter and put your multi meter in series with that wire and the watt meter.
You can't set full load speed when you are only loading to about half load. You have to get 3 kW worth of load and load from...
If you're loading it from the outlet, the contactor does not remove load from the outlet.
The outlet is before the load contactor, the load contactor only removes load from the split load terminals.
If your voltage from the PMA, A,B,C on the controller are out of whack, that means the speed is...
Just trying to give you the benefit of my experience with these sets.
What I have explained would make it easier to install the rotor onto the engine.
This is how I've done it hundreds of times.
I do believe the TM is correct if you don't have a piece of plastic, if you have one it will be...
Very strong magnets, Samarium cobalt, rare earth magnets.
Have you attempted to re-assemble the PMA?
When you go to put the rotor back inside the stator the magnets will pull it in and it will hit on one side.
What you need to do is put a thin piece of plastic (mylar) inside the stator before...
Diesel,
Is it running good now or still acting up?
For the one you just got, if the PMA is partially disassembled that may be a job to get back together.
Is the rotor out of the stator?
There is nothing that supersedes the TM
Like I said before, I wrote the set up.
Fermont was bought by a large Italian company and one of their engineers tried to re-write the procedure.
There is such subtle word changes that it doesn't matter, it was just for them to say they did something.
I...
Diesel,
What supplier was that?
That's an awful lot for that controller.
I'm glad you got a copy of the TM, I was wrong on the gap, I said 1/4 inch when in fact it is 5/16 (been a while)
I've seen that condition before where the actuator catches, pops off, and then catches again, usually it is...
Diesel,
Sounds like you did good setting it up.
Where are the stability and gain pots set to?
They should be about 11:00 o'clock. That is, turn all the way ccw then turn cw to 11:00.
254 Hz is dead nuts no load speed and 288 Hz at full load.
I've been preparing for the blizzard we are having...
You wont find that info anywhere it is factory set. I know this because I helped develop this set, and I wrote the procedure for setting this governing system.
To properly set the pull off weight you need to disconnect the actuator rod from the actuator, and you would need a pull scale to...
I the rod is not long enough then there is not enough mechanical pressure to hold the magnet.
The magnet is the stationary part of the actuator it is inside the cylinder that stays stationary, the part that moves we call the target.
The target moves away from the magnet when actuator is...
The problem is, the magnet has a certain pull off weight set by the factory (GAC), if you adjust that, then the rest of the set up procedure is no good.
The gap on the magnet is set to 1/4 inch when running at no load, that puts the actuator just outside the magnetic pull of the magnet, that...
If you don't have the governing system set up properly then you wont get the full benefits of the set (fuel consumption, wear and tear on the engine, maintenance and such)
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