How to ID generators?

[Ohnny101]

I've found a couple of military diesel generators on craigslist pretty close to me and I got the owner to send me some photos of the data plates. The question is where can I look these numbers up? Anywhere. If not what can I use to id these? Thanks.

 

[ida34]

How about having him send a couple of pictures of the complete data plate. You have a partial NSN and the part showing what generator set it is would be in the same line as "generator set".

 

[gimpyrobb]

Post a pic of the whole thing, I bet we can guess pretty close. Do those have the acoustic enclosures on them?

 

[Isaac-1]

That looks to me like the numbers for a MEP-701a (MEP-016B with an ASK), it is my best guess that the T89 and T90 refer to 1989 or 1990 either construction date or revision date for the MEP-701a housing. the -24P manual for the MEP-016B is TM 5-6115-615-24P which matches the partial number that can be seen in the photos. My MEP-701a has a T-89 number on it, when I removed the top cover to gain access to the unit, the MEP-016B cover below shows a 1988 built date.

Ike

P.S. for some reason the MEP-002a and MEP-003a just added -A or -ASK and were field retrofit for the ASK sound suppressing housings, where as the MEP-016B was renamed MEP-701a when the ASK was added as a depot service operation. This may be due to the ASK installation being more complex, requiring installation of electrical cooling fans, threaded inserts in the frame, etc.

 

[Ohnny101]

Thanks for the help guys, I asked for more pictures but never got them, guess he got tired of messing with me. That's fine 3k is a little smaller than I was hoping for anyway. I'll keep looking. Thanks again.

 

[ida34]

If he is not even willing to properly identify what he has to sell then I would say you should not deal with him anyway.