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Today we had the opportunity to play a little with some power, have a 125KW genny that had an IP replaced and 'needed' to load test it to verify the repair, *not really but its fun*
Largest load tester I have is Essex A698,
We ran the load tester wide open, pulled 225 amps per leg, guessing...
So does anyone have a guess where all these tankers are going out of Hooks?
I have bid some of the cleaner ones to over 5K, and some of the not so cleaner one over 3, and they all have cancer like they have been salty air sitting.
I just need 1.... or if being greedy, 2.
So I got a Essex A698 a couple years ago, I have never used it as I have my ol faithful UMC that i love using. So today was the test day for the Essex, so pre use, pop the top and blow out the dust, and to my surprise there is no fan in the box.
I ran 33KW for almost 1 hour and never noticed...
So to preface this whole ordeal, we normally drained this trailer if temps were below 20*F
We use a M970 as a water tender to feed grass rigs chasing fires. Normally have zero issues with 20's , unbeknown to us the belly valve failed, stuck, had a catastrophic failure of some sort. As normal...
I cant remember the model of the water distribution trailer that the engineers used.
trailer had a tall neck, 3.5” kingpin, pump and motor was on the rear of tank.
Usually got pulled with a m916,
I purchased/traded the M970 from M35A2-az and the M916 came from Ohio, specifically for water to fend off a fire until the real firemen can fight fire. Well today was the day she paid for herself.
Last Monday, 19 Aug 19, I walked out on the porch before supper, happened to look to the North...
Looked in all the TM's posted, used the search button, Reopened the ETM file and opened those files, still have not found any of the air schematic FO's in any digital form.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
OK, its freezing time so AMi got drained to keep from freeze busting valves. Now is the time to do maintenance.
Problem.
Trailer runs uphill due to AMi being a M916 and not a M915 or M931, to the tune of about 13in difference front high.
Attempted solution:
1600/20's, failed, tire is too...
So we went on another run earlier this week, only for a refill and just rough math in my head AMi gets about 4mpg at 55-58 mph. Also 55 is a bit slow going to a fire. She has no problems tanker yanking full to the top of water, so another .81 od behind an aux should get the top speed at 2100rpm...
I am working on an 831 that has a faulty battery charging regulator, has anyone used a NOCO g 7200 in place of a bad battery charging regulator?
Do you have to push the button everytime to select 24v when 120v is applied? All of the video's show that you have to push the button to select...
Got a buddy going to pickup a truck, he is not computer literate. He may need a slave tomorrow noon time. He doesnt have slave cables, but he does have jumper cables.
Location is City of Columbus storage yard, 4211 Groves Rd
Going to start on the build for a tool to lighten and darken the screens on the 5/6B's. Finally got the cable from China
I am probably going to use a waffer board to backup, the terminals are open on the back of the breakout board. The pour potting material over the whole thing to dummy (155mm)...
Today was a cool but nice day to be outside so I thought I would take the opportunity to load test a 3kw, mep 016b, before it gets shipped to Montana. I have it set up running 3ph, 120/208 for the load testing
load surge to 6kw
https://youtu.be/LgCIdX0-9ew
load surge to 9Kw...
Just killing some time this morning and thought I would check out GL make an offer event. There is some stuff there that we all would look at bidding on, there is a small catch, bidding doesnt open for 232 days. Yeah I am pretty sure I will have forgotten about it by then.
Does anyone have a...
Load bank , AC 0-33kw resistive P/N 7478 NSN 6625-01-070-5283 Contract DAA01-78-c-1631
UMC Electronics Co PLB type 33 TM date August 1979
I guess this tm has been unobtanium, well not anymore. No extra charge for the coffee stains
If you dont know what happened, here is the thread,
https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?171539-Lexus-vs-M931-bobtailed-got-rear-ended
Their insurance company is at a loss on getting my truck repaired or totaled. They are saying, oh we absolutely have to have an estimate for repair...
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