BlackIce000
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Greetings All,
I've been locating, purchasing, installing and maintaining 30-60kW Diesel Generators for my Town for a few years and have some experience with the MEP series 00's and 800's. I REALLY like the TQG's and have seen lots of aftermarket products to make them more useful in a building backup power situation. (Autostart, obviously!)
I have been offered a couple of 20 (23) kW ex-DRASH trailer diesel gensets. They both run and seem in decent shape. Buolt in the mid-late 2000's with between 200 and 500 hours. They were used to run trailer mounted ECUs (HVAC) for the military.
They seem to be in between the older Analog style and the newer Digital (IPT) LCD screen style. They have 3 LEDs for displaying Amps, Volts and Frequency and what looks like a bunch of buttons surrounding the display.
From the Video I was sent, they sound about as loud as our MEP-005A but from a Video shot with a phone it's hard to tell...I prefer the quieter TQG MUCH more.
Do these have Autostart built in (Like the IPT versions?) If not, can they be updated with the Upgrade kit...anyone know how much that is??
Lastly, they both appear to be 3 Phase, but have multiple outputs for distribution. Would you use the existing distro or hard wire into the head?
Thanks!
Rick
I've been locating, purchasing, installing and maintaining 30-60kW Diesel Generators for my Town for a few years and have some experience with the MEP series 00's and 800's. I REALLY like the TQG's and have seen lots of aftermarket products to make them more useful in a building backup power situation. (Autostart, obviously!)
I have been offered a couple of 20 (23) kW ex-DRASH trailer diesel gensets. They both run and seem in decent shape. Buolt in the mid-late 2000's with between 200 and 500 hours. They were used to run trailer mounted ECUs (HVAC) for the military.
They seem to be in between the older Analog style and the newer Digital (IPT) LCD screen style. They have 3 LEDs for displaying Amps, Volts and Frequency and what looks like a bunch of buttons surrounding the display.
From the Video I was sent, they sound about as loud as our MEP-005A but from a Video shot with a phone it's hard to tell...I prefer the quieter TQG MUCH more.
Do these have Autostart built in (Like the IPT versions?) If not, can they be updated with the Upgrade kit...anyone know how much that is??
Lastly, they both appear to be 3 Phase, but have multiple outputs for distribution. Would you use the existing distro or hard wire into the head?
Thanks!
Rick
I have a 20ish KW one and there will be differences on the motors in them, but we all sort of know what could be the cause as most of them we picked up surplus and are dealing with some sort of issue the other one has seen. I got some help from a now buddy member in FL to get mine running. The basics will be if it's surplus,drain the fuel tanks, inspect the heck out of it, potentially swap the hoses, and change the filters for start. Electrical stuff starts to get specific to a couple of members. There could be some trouble in the panels. I was pretty lucky and mine had minor issues. Inline fuel filter was the biggest issue, after that a couple of new set of air and fuel filters later it was running 100%. The AC was next, and I had my FL buddy help me through a recharge of the AC. I don't think anyone has been lucky to have refrigerant in the system. Will (Suprman on the forums) can be of help specifically with the DRASH units. He's sold several and got them running and in various states. Post a new thread and we'll jump into help. There are some TM's (technical manuals) on these guys around the net too, just maybe not your model, and definitely an Operations and Maintenance manual.