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No, I hadn’t thought about adding anti-gel to the fuel. The 15 gallons will be in the garage which is heated to 45 F so I don’t think I will need to treat that, but I will add some to the tank.

I live in CT and we are looking at 8-12” of snow and hurricane force winds, and temps 10 - 15 below 0 over the next couple days. With that in mind I will be starting the -803 and letting it get up to temp. I load banked it last month so I know that it is in good working order. I will have 15...

The purely resistive load bank is a pF of 1.0. The MEP is designed to run at a pF of 0.8. So when powering a purely resistive load, you need to divide by 0.8 to calculate the power that would be produced in a reactive circuit such as your house. At least this is how I remember my military...

I was surprised that a 100 KW load bank could be so small.

Just after midnight-thirty Monday morning, a powerful storm packing heavy rain and high winds rolled through, leaving over 100K people without power in our small state. Fired up the beast, transferred the load over, and went back to bed. Power was restored yesterday just after 1 in the...

I picked up a NOS aux fuel hose from Fleabay for $30, was worth it to me.

Them sure are purty.

I do find it ironic that security is tighter at the nuke plant I work at than it is at the local military base.

The guys with the automatic weapons frown on the use of cameras in the protected area.

Today we are retesting one of our emergency diesel generators after a governor replacement. Pretty cool to see a 6,920 Hp, 5000 KW machine go from standstill to running fully loaded in around 10 seconds. Fairbanks Morse V-14 beast.

That heater element is a purely resistive load, i.e. it has a power factor pF of 1.0. The meter on your MEP (well actually the entire MEP) is designed for a system with a pF of 0.8. If you divide the 75% indicated by 0.8, you come up with around 94% load. 46 amps divided by 52 (nameplate data...

I built a load bank using a plastic 55 gal drum, 10 Kw worth of water heater elements, and a garden hose when I first got the beast up and running. Wasn't the safest thing in the world (actually not safe at all) so I won't be doing that again. I may make an air cooled one out of dryer elements...

I do have a clamp-on meter, just couldn't find it today. I have checked it in the past though and found the installed gauge to be pretty accurate.

In the Southeast corner near Foxwoods.

Loaded up the -803A today to blow the dust out of it. Running 2 - 2.5T heat pumps, well pump, refrigerator, pellet stove, and lighting only got me up to 50% load (55% when the well pump cycled on). Adding in the range hood (2 - 175 watt heat lamps, 2 - 600 cfm blowers, and two halogen spots) got...

So I have a NOCO Genius 7200 maintaining my Optima Red Tops, and I contacted NOCO about leaving it connected while the generator starts and runs. One of their engineers got back to me and stated that it was ok to leave it connected, but it absolutely had to be unplugged prior to starting the...

I'm thinking I will order one of these and do the replacement once Hurricane Jose has passed on.

Thanks for the help.

As others have said, you are really wasting your time, and potentially money down the road due to excess fuel consumption, until you add up the loads in your home and figure out your needs. For me, I divided loads into Critical (must have), Nice to have, and luxury items. Critical loads...

Nice looking rig, and clean install.