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I had the same issue with my 802. I wanted something my wife could use . I ended up installing an interlock. The 802 will not run the dryer or the water heater. She starts the genny then goes down and switches over the breaker from utility to gen, switches off the dryer and the water heater...

Even the air cooled Onan in my motorhome has a label saying not to run it with the enclosure open. Lots of engineering went in to airflow for maximum cooling.

Outstanding work Chris. You guys amaze me with your dedication.

Sounds like you have a handle on the application side. I agree with you regarding the heat exchanger. I am always amazed at how efficient they are. In our power plant we had scores of heat exchangers. Some were condensers and some were used in the plants HVAC and processing. I wish I knew...

Interesting subject. 30+ years ago I had a similar thought. I was given the opportunity to get a free 7.5KW MJDE Onan Marine generator out of an old Trojan Tri Cabin that was being demolished. I brought it home and it ran and produced power with very little work. I was working in a co-gen power...

You have to wonder what the situation was for this generator for it to get so bad. Amazing stuff. At work, we had a Wall of Shame where interesting failures were displayed. In the 32 years I worked there the wall grew from a 10 foot square to a 30X20 area. We had everything from a tube...

No worries! It's related to wet stacking...even if it's extreme...and it seems to me to be a pretty popular subject. Since I joined this forum, I've been picking through the generator section and am on page 250 or so. Wet stacking, fuel pumps, wiring to house seem to be very popular subjects...

I found a Carter pump P74018 is as close to a bolt on as you can get. $46 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000CSWR9M?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

That's awesome Matthew. Thank you!

You're probably right. Wow. The only engine I've seen close to that was a no start chainsaw. Fuel spark, compression. Pulled the muffler and it was clogged solid. The spark arrestor screen just caught all the oily mix. Never seen a diesel with anything but soot in the exhaust.

I'm not sure about my town. When I built my addition, a friend of mine and co-worker, pulled the permit. He and I went over what I wanted and what the codes dictated. I did most of the wiring and he stopped by to check my work. Because of that, inspection was a breeze. It never entered my mind...

Pretty amazing! I wonder how long it ran to get that bad?

That sounds like a great system. Sadly, being retired on a pretty much fixed income, it is way out of my reach. Looking at the components, it's almost twice what I paid for my 802. While I am electrically educated, having worked in a power plant for so many years and worked with 120 volts to...

And hot. We wore Tyvek suits with respirators for the soot but the boilers were still hot. We had two vertical boilers and we had to stand inside them to punch the tubes. I wore Timberland steel toed works boots and the heat from the tube sheet would seep through the soles until we had to get...

Our big Cats had their exhaust run through a low pressure fire tube boiler. Because they were always at 50% load, we never got and gooky deposits but we did get soot. We did an annual boiler inspection that included punching the tubes. Probably the closest I have ever got to hell while living.