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@Kloppk I've moved away from the wifi start and moved to the 2 wire start in conjunction with an arduino connected to a pi to monitor the voltage in my batteries and start the generator when needed. One thing that is not clear to me is how to ensure the aux fuel is on when in 2 wire start...

I was wondering if the two wire start wires reference ground or 24v positive directly so that i could use 1 or both of them to monitor the battery voltage? I also have a battery for my networking equipment and want to use a raspberry pi to monitor the voltage and automatically start the...

@Hard Head the idea of a battery tender is great if you have another source of power on site. My Mep is my sole source of power. @kloppk I finally installed my kit. The manual was well written and easy to follow. I'd like to acknowledge the many many hours you must have put into developing...

@Kloppk is there a way to have it connect to my router instead of connecting to it and having it serve dhcp? Even disabling the dhcp server would solve one problem. Having it connected to my lan is important to me as i want to be able to monitor and control it from my phone and pc while...

I've recently purchased the MEP 803A WiFi Board off ebay and will be playing with it soon so i wanted to start a thread to discuss the installation, use and hacking of the unit EDIT: ebay link removed I'd like to start off by saying i'm very impressed with the overall build of the unit...

After an hour at 75% load, no smoke and no back carbon i ran it for an hour and a half loaded down yesterday.

Put some seafoam in and let er chooch for an hour with a loose gas cap. https://youtu.be/npZKsrXYCcI tightened up the cap and let it chooch for another half hour https://youtu.be/Rr9rpVzBFo0 if it keeps running like this i'll be really happy about how i spent my money. I'm going to let it cool...

something i wanted to explore was the droop adjustment in the manual. Do you think this could have anything to do with what i am experiencing.

finding Things to put on as a load is difficult for me. at 2:50 in the video i show the black specks that are coming out of the exhaust https://youtu.be/9f4OimbGGk0?t=229

Terminal lugs You could try but it wouldn't end well. i tried again today. ran the 11 amp heater for a while with no problems, but once i connected the big heater it surged quite a bit. https://youtu.be/9f4OimbGGk0

@floridaAKM it is rated at 10kw at 0.8 power factor which means it is 12kva a heater is a resistive load which means 10kw is the same as 10 kva. the heater is also single or 3 phase and i didn't check how it was wired i only assumed based on where it was run last and it is very old. i say...

found a large 240v 10kw heater that took it up to 75% load on the gauge. frequency drooped a good bit but held steady, only thing disconcerting was the embers and blue smoke that came out of the exhaust.

i took the gas cap off and it didn't help, i cant figure out which position is open and which is closed.

I have a MEP 803A that is new to me. it starts right up and while it's cold runs great, once it warms up the frequency won't hold steady. i shot a video showing this. it is very long but it is one cut from start up to shut down. Any help would be appreciated. If you are reading this...