I have been a member here and GovPLANET for several years. I have used a MEP-017a for home back up but and it does good as long as I shed my 240 loads one at a time. Recently we had an outage that lasted a few days and trying to source gasoline became tough because we were flooded in and I don’t keep a lot on hand. At any rate, I started looking for an 803 again and decided I’d give the auction a try. I found several going up on the 19 March close to me so I hoped the bidding wouldn’t get crazy. I ended up winning a unit with 760hr that was missing a coolant temp gauge and the oil pressure and fuel gauge appeared to not move. I took a gamble and set a reasonable amount and to my surprise won the unit for about 70 percent of my high bid. So I took off to Ritchie bros with a trailer to get my new project Genny.
First thing I did was replaced the coolant gauge and to my surprise the other engine gauges found their respective readings on target, sharing ground I found out after looking at the TM, thanks GuyFang! I also had to replace the fuel return hoses and the main fuel hose from the water separator along with filters, oil and a good going over.
I work in industry so I brought home a rather large 3phase motor and made myself a control circuit to wire it up in Y, as it was a delta 12 lead motor. It started the 15HP motor with a small burp but wasn’t drawing much current due to no load & the series wiring I used. Ran that for a bit and was happy with the response so I filled her with fuel, some atf-don’t shoot me I’m an old diesel guy, and some Seafoam. This set really appears to have had an easy life so I figured the whole wet stacking problem was likely. I powered my house through a 200a manual transfer with 6ga SOOW cord with the N-G unbonded at the Gen side and bonded at the panel. I did run a ground rod on the set though, do you guys do that or just use the house rod?
So I am currently 3.5hr in on running the house (small 2 BR) as usual, A/C, dryer, HW, sewer pump, water booster pump(120v), fridge, TV’s, modems, lights, & ceiling fans. I am impressed as it has ran 40% - 70% (20A-36A) for most of that time. My son took a bath while the wife was drying clothes and I saw some smoke at one point for about 30sec with around 80% load. After that cycle happened a few times the smoke seemed to clear up and she is currently cooching along at about 25%. During the 1.5hr of good load the frequency dropped to 61 from 63 at no load, this is around what I use on my gasoline set so I started there. Now that it seems to have cleared itself out some I have backed it down to 60, should I keep it up higher? It appears to regulate around 5ish percent now that the crud has cleared some. Sorry for the long post but I am a little excited sitting here having a frosty adult beverage as the family is living normal all on a few gallons of D1.
Now to get this puppy set in its final resting place and hardwired to the transfer switch. I am pleased as I have wanted one of these for years and thought it was out of reach. Thanks to all of you guys here for your knowledge base and willingness to teach others your skill set, I raise one to you all you know who you are!
First thing I did was replaced the coolant gauge and to my surprise the other engine gauges found their respective readings on target, sharing ground I found out after looking at the TM, thanks GuyFang! I also had to replace the fuel return hoses and the main fuel hose from the water separator along with filters, oil and a good going over.
I work in industry so I brought home a rather large 3phase motor and made myself a control circuit to wire it up in Y, as it was a delta 12 lead motor. It started the 15HP motor with a small burp but wasn’t drawing much current due to no load & the series wiring I used. Ran that for a bit and was happy with the response so I filled her with fuel, some atf-don’t shoot me I’m an old diesel guy, and some Seafoam. This set really appears to have had an easy life so I figured the whole wet stacking problem was likely. I powered my house through a 200a manual transfer with 6ga SOOW cord with the N-G unbonded at the Gen side and bonded at the panel. I did run a ground rod on the set though, do you guys do that or just use the house rod?
So I am currently 3.5hr in on running the house (small 2 BR) as usual, A/C, dryer, HW, sewer pump, water booster pump(120v), fridge, TV’s, modems, lights, & ceiling fans. I am impressed as it has ran 40% - 70% (20A-36A) for most of that time. My son took a bath while the wife was drying clothes and I saw some smoke at one point for about 30sec with around 80% load. After that cycle happened a few times the smoke seemed to clear up and she is currently cooching along at about 25%. During the 1.5hr of good load the frequency dropped to 61 from 63 at no load, this is around what I use on my gasoline set so I started there. Now that it seems to have cleared itself out some I have backed it down to 60, should I keep it up higher? It appears to regulate around 5ish percent now that the crud has cleared some. Sorry for the long post but I am a little excited sitting here having a frosty adult beverage as the family is living normal all on a few gallons of D1.
Now to get this puppy set in its final resting place and hardwired to the transfer switch. I am pleased as I have wanted one of these for years and thought it was out of reach. Thanks to all of you guys here for your knowledge base and willingness to teach others your skill set, I raise one to you all you know who you are!
