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Good morning... Or Afternoon... Or, whatever it may be for you.
I did a quick search, without finding anything jumping out at me, and I'll continue to dig, but perhaps someone could point me to particular thread that's good...
I'm in the market for an MEP-802a.
While I'd love the capacity of an 803a, for the odd occasion I want to run a 3 phase machine, the reality is, this gen set is mostly going to handle backup for my house (single phase naturally). The house simply doesn't pull enough to justify a 10k unit, and from my reading, running too little load isn't good on these machines. I have to confirm, but the 802a should handle the 3 phase tools I have, if I go with a soft starter, so it would still do double duty, just more work to do so. I'm doing my inlet wiring now on the house, and it will be sized for the 10k, in case I find some odd bargin, or something chages and I need that later. (plus I have the haeavier gauge wire on hand anyway) This is a manual transfer setup, I really don't need an automatic deal as I'm simply not that far in the boonies, and I'm generally never more than 3 hours away, and get notified within 15 minutes of an outage. My UPS systems will handle 2-3 hours for the computers, and security system, and the weather in PA isn't extreme enough to cause serious issues that aren't in the forcast. On the other hand, I lived through Sandy in NJ, and it sure is nice to have the house setup for backup power... Since I heat with oil, I've got a virtually unlimited run time for an 802a due to the 1000gal tank. 800 gets me through a winter, so there's a 200 gal reserve that could plausibly run for the gennie.
So what I'm really looking for is a post that discusses what one should be looking for in buying an 802a. I've seen some pointers to 803a guides, and I'm going to go through them as kinda a general idea, but I'm sure there's info specific to the 802a that I probably need to know.
And, yes, I will be pulling the 802a manuals to read through as well as going through back posts here as well.
Thanks in advance!
I did a quick search, without finding anything jumping out at me, and I'll continue to dig, but perhaps someone could point me to particular thread that's good...
I'm in the market for an MEP-802a.
While I'd love the capacity of an 803a, for the odd occasion I want to run a 3 phase machine, the reality is, this gen set is mostly going to handle backup for my house (single phase naturally). The house simply doesn't pull enough to justify a 10k unit, and from my reading, running too little load isn't good on these machines. I have to confirm, but the 802a should handle the 3 phase tools I have, if I go with a soft starter, so it would still do double duty, just more work to do so. I'm doing my inlet wiring now on the house, and it will be sized for the 10k, in case I find some odd bargin, or something chages and I need that later. (plus I have the haeavier gauge wire on hand anyway) This is a manual transfer setup, I really don't need an automatic deal as I'm simply not that far in the boonies, and I'm generally never more than 3 hours away, and get notified within 15 minutes of an outage. My UPS systems will handle 2-3 hours for the computers, and security system, and the weather in PA isn't extreme enough to cause serious issues that aren't in the forcast. On the other hand, I lived through Sandy in NJ, and it sure is nice to have the house setup for backup power... Since I heat with oil, I've got a virtually unlimited run time for an 802a due to the 1000gal tank. 800 gets me through a winter, so there's a 200 gal reserve that could plausibly run for the gennie.
So what I'm really looking for is a post that discusses what one should be looking for in buying an 802a. I've seen some pointers to 803a guides, and I'm going to go through them as kinda a general idea, but I'm sure there's info specific to the 802a that I probably need to know.
And, yes, I will be pulling the 802a manuals to read through as well as going through back posts here as well.
Thanks in advance!