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As a guess, maybe one or both of the connections were dirty and got hot.

I'm not surprised at the starting current. I worked with some big blowers that had 3-phase Baldor motors. They took a long time to come up to speed so it was easy to see the starting current. Ranging from 5 to 15 hp, they all started out at 10 times the running current. In my case I ended up...

I've tried all my life to relate battery brand and warranty to actual life, and I've failed. I have a pair of Walmart batteries in my MEP-003. They're 7-1/2 years old and still crank the engine fine. I don't keep them on a charger of any kind, I just run the generator about monthly.

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I'm familiar with "right hand" marine engines running backwards, but why would it matter with a generator?

Renuing, even though you live in Hawaii the glow plugs are needed, since it's a prechamber type deisel. The control system is wired to run them while the starter is cranking the engine, so it can seem like they're not needed, but if you run them 20 or 30 seconds before cranking you'll find it...

Hello Aaawolfe, welcome to the forum. It's also possible that there's something in one cylinder that the piston hits. I've seen engines that had a valve fall in, for example.

The trucking company that brought mine insisted that the sender put it on a pallet (skid). I told them it has one built in, but they wouldn't listen. Everything has to be on a separate pallet. There should be an exception for items that are made with an integral skid.

Actually the battery meter shows mid scale, frequency is showing full scale (above 60 Hz), and the voltmeter seems to be showing something a bit above 100 VAC, which might be close to correct depending on the setting of the reconnect switch. I've never seen one that color, but with all the...

That's the way to do it, since the new one is under warranty for a couple years.

It was a long road, but you got there. :)

When I was a kid, one of the neighbors had a gas air conditioner. You don't see them much these days.

Like robertsears1 said, my county lets me do all the work, since I'm the owner of the property. I'm fortunate about that, since the county I grew up in won't let that happen. It's worth looking into for your next project. I like to go talk to the inspector before I do any work that requires a...

Well, there is that big problem of the intermittent open on CVT1's H1-H2 winding. Measuring 1/2 an ohm that way in CT1's windings is difficult. You'd be better off putting an amp though the winding and seeing if you have 0.5 volts drop across it. Or adjust a current though it to get a 1 volt...

It's academic at this point, but did you subtract the reading of the meter leads from the reading you got on the windings? That is, short the probes together, wait a few seconds, and get that reading, then subtract that from winding readings.

If I pull out the dipstick on my 003A while it's running it will do more than put a mist on my hand, it'll spray oil all over the place. I imagine a 2-cylinder engine would do even more. Are you sure it's not something like previous times were with cold, thick oil and you recently tried it...

I'm afraid that with a 2-cylinder engine that paper is going to flap wildly no matter what the condition of the engine is.

An 802 has two cylinders with pistons that go up and down together, correct? That causes a huge amount of crankcase pulsing. How about doing a compression test to see if you really have excessive ring leakage.

T2 supplies the regulator with a sample of the generator output voltage. If T2 doesn't have an output, the regulator will think the generator output is low and cut back its output to zero so no control current flows in CVT1. This should make the generator output go high if everything else is...

My money is on a bad CVT1. Without going back to read all the posts in this thread, did you measure all the windings in it and compare to the values in the TM?