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  1. Triple Jim

    How have you civilized your MEP Generators?

    Still, 17 is good. About 5 hours more than the stock tank.
  2. Triple Jim

    How have you civilized your MEP Generators?

    Another good looking generator. Is that a stainless fuel tank? How many gallons?
  3. Triple Jim

    MEP002A - holding at 140 volts?

    That's the procedure for adjusting the regulator so that it responds quickly to sudden changes in load without instability or oscillation. That adjustment won't change the output voltage, and unless you're seeing the output voltage swinging back and forth wildly, it's more in the fine-tuning...
  4. Triple Jim

    MEP002A - holding at 140 volts?

    Rapracing, if your regulator board is working properly you should be able to adjust that with the voltage adjustment pot on the board. Center your front panel control and then adjust the pot on the board for the voltage you want. The pot is R17 if you have board 72-5020 and R12 if you have...
  5. Triple Jim

    two MEP 17as

    A quick Google search for "liberated manuals" yielded this: http://www.liberatedmanuals.com
  6. Triple Jim

    another 003 done....finally

    Excellent. Clay's is getting put to good use too.
  7. Triple Jim

    another 003 done....finally

    Any printed parts on it? :D
  8. Triple Jim

    Mep-003

    I believe you can get the stock type pumps with various fittings, including NPT. I'm not trying to convince you to got that route though, since any way you go will provide good information for others who might have the same needs in the future.
  9. Triple Jim

    Mep-003

    Why not use a pump exactly like the ones on the 003A, except at the tank?
  10. Triple Jim

    #LO to #6 jumper??

    You didn't switch it with the generator running, right?
  11. Triple Jim

    #LO to #6 jumper??

    No, the double fault refers to things like both sides of the 120 volts floating (not referenced to ground with one neutral).
  12. Triple Jim

    Load Bank project

    Interesting... 6 $11 Walmart hair 1875 watt hair dryers = 11,250 watts, which would be great to test my 003A. It would take only three for an 002A. If I look around, I can probably find three or four old hair dryers around here.
  13. Triple Jim

    New Member/Western North Carolina RE: MEP 003A

    Maybe start with a compression test (sorry if that was mentioned previously).
  14. Triple Jim

    New Member/Western North Carolina RE: MEP 003A

    Ok thanks Jerry, Jim, and Ike. 6 ohms would be about 4 amps each at 24 volts, which make sense. I measured all mine, but it's been a year, so all I remember is that the total current draw was like 20 or 25 amps, including the intake heaters.
  15. Triple Jim

    New Member/Western North Carolina RE: MEP 003A

    Do you mean 0.6 ohms when all four glow plugs and the two intake heaters are connected? I can't find the spec at the moment, but individually they have to be higher than that.
  16. Triple Jim

    MEP 003a Hertz question

    Peter's referring to the second harmonic of 30Hz showing on the meter. The 3rd harmonic of 20 Hz would be 60 Hz, 4th of 15 Hz, etc., but I don't think the speed adjustment on an 003A will go low enough to reach 900 rpm, which would give 30 Hz. Mine certainly won't.
  17. Triple Jim

    mep-003a running temp in a closed environment

    Not saying I'm right, but I heard mice just don't like to chew steel wool, so you can use it to block openings. I've used it for that and haven't found dead mice around.
  18. Triple Jim

    MEP 003a Hertz question

    They can be erratic if very far from 60. As I slowly speed my 003A up from its lowest engine speed, the frequency meter goes through a couple zero to full scale swings. Then as I get near 60 Hz it starts behaving normally.
  19. Triple Jim

    #LO to #6 jumper??

    If the jumper from L0 to 6 were in place, you'd certainly see a dead short, zero ohms, in 120V-only mode. I *think* you'd see an open circuit if the jumper were not in place. If there were any control circuit devices trying to get power between L0 and L1, they wouldn't work in 120V mode, so I...
  20. Triple Jim

    #LO to #6 jumper??

    Well, yes, except if you do use 120v-only mode, as far as I can see, without the jumper neither side of the 120 is referenced to ground or neutral, so they're floating. This is very non-standard. It means a 2-wire device that relies on a polarized plug to keep 120 and neutral in the right...
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