Recent content by LuckeyD

Supercool! Hope your fully in business now. Wonder who did that to a gen set.

Good Day: About a year old. OK, let's think it worked correctly at one time. This makes it easy. If it never worked you have to check a lot. Look inside at the regulator: is it black TRC or green Libby? What's happening, is as the engine goes over 900 RPM and you hold the start switch in...

Good Day: Two members have it on the head of the nail. The monitoring circuits are looking for 3 phases and S12 is set for a 1050 which is a 3 phase machine.. You have 52 AMPS per phase on the 3 phase machine which if you use only 2 phases, you have your 120/240VAC with 52 AMPS each to...

Good Day: Last entry was 2 June. Did you have any luck in starting?

Look under the 114 thread. Mr Guy and I responded

Good Day: The DS6 and DS7 are press to test LED lamps. Place the S1 in RUN, and press the indicators. This will see if one is just stuck. If your DS7 stays lit, take a meter with everything OFF, and set it to read OHMS. Measure from the AC interrupter switch terminal 3 wire 147A to chassis...

Time to show my age. I hated these things. I thought they all went away. Guyfang and I worked missile systems and other things that used 400HZ power all over the planet. with me for 50 years. Using a few HP bridge rectifiers and a 400HZ transformers and CAPS you have enough to start a 747 or...

Good Day: I recommend you get your hands on 2each 2,000 watt space heaters. set up the 5,000 watt gen to provide 120/240 and connect a space heater accordingly to each phase providing output at the load terminals which is the biggest issue here making this connection safely. Best use of...

The replies are great! I always thought it was so the manufacturer would look smart as I seemed so stupid fixing stuff in the rain and snow after entering the service in the mid 70s. Then I took a bad meter apart, and read the manuals a lot. 50 years later, I find some schematics confusing at...

The LO and manual are in the FORUM. Wish the ARMY used that spin on filter adapter one member has. Would have saved a lot of money. The engine manual breaks this down well. The wide spread use of 15-40 was due to US ARMY TACOM (Tank and Automotive Command) and their engine lubricant research...

Good Day: There are two issues. The sluggish shutdown, and a main contactor issue as I read your response. Lets talk one at a time. 1. slow shut down- This can be caused by several things, but mainly one injection pump is allowing fuel to get into a cylinder causing a slower shut down...

Great! I recommend keeping loads under 50A per phase as the main gen is good for just over 100 AMPS total and you split it using 2 phases, so say the designers. If it holds the loads you speak of, you seem good to go. Nice and clean too. The Low Oil Pressure switch shuts you down when oil...

Good Day: S12 looks good, (sometimes these do go bad so move them a couple times) but if the DCS still indicated the 3665 error, you have a little bit to do to confirm the failure. You indicated your were into wire checking. Please also check the connectors, security, corrosion, lose wiring...

Well, you can try the procedures starting on page 2-306 and ending on page 2-307 and hopefully that one turn will clear the flywheel teeth, but take it from one of the folks that traveled the planet and 11 years in war zones doing the same, use alligator clips at the pickup to your meter set to...

I read each reply and one member touched on something. In post '13 you state the pumps are new and after a bad experience installing, you state they all worked freely. The member post that started me thinking asked if it tried to slow or just kept running as if nothing was different. So lets...