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I appreciate the dialog here. I'm going to share my understanding. I hope its clear that I'm not trying to argue. Exchanging information is always an opportunity for everyone involved to maybe take something away from the conversation. Transformers and generators are fundamentally different...

These machines are built a bit different than normal civilian generators. The main thing that I would say is in their favor is they don't skimp on wire size on the load wiring. The generator heads are also heavier duty than a similar capacity civilian machine.

Congrats!

Actually, yes. I would like to see reference material that explains why neutral current is wasted energy.

I think we need to be careful saying that neutral current is wasted or does not do work. Neutral current is the result of the imbalance between the two split phases but neutral current does do work and is not wasted.

If the generators are being used for PRIME power its worth keeping the load balanced. For short term, emergency power use, don't worry about it. Run it like you need to. It won't really care from a health standpoint so long as you aren't overloading any single phase. You are correct that when...

Congrats. Have fun getting it going!

I use a little WD40 to get one to light off. Ether is fine too but I think wd40 is a little more gentle. Even if it doesn't start you'll see when it gets to the cylinders in the exhaust.

lets fix those other units!

I'm not home right now but I will go through them and log everything when I'm back. I'll be out of town for 1-2 weeks.

I’m sure some are not the latest.

its good to get them above 75% load on a regular basis. I have a load bank if you want to drop by sometime and give it a workout.

Have you been able to give it a good load test?

I have all the training manuals as well.

I have a full set of actual issued manuals. Most are still wrapped in plastic.

Those of us in Efland have heard of it. We shot parts of an independent film there. The city was so helpful and accommodating. It was great.

Here is how I look at it. You can flat tow a LMTV with ANOTHER LMTV. If its loaded that would be over 20k lbs being towed AND I am 100% certain that a LMTV is harder to tow than a trailer of equal weight.

OK. If you can hold the speed control by hand and keep it running it eliminates a lot of possible problems. Your problem of it running OK for a while then going crazy is one I've run into a number of times on these sets. Each time it was the speed control module behind the control panel flaking...

Will it immediately restart and run OK? Will it continue to run if you hold the speed control servo away from its magnet?

Nothing like mother nature to provide some motivation! :) Nice to see you back working on those sets.