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I do think with a little load management a 5kw would do it. If you would rather not sweat load management then the 803 is what you want. I can relate to it being a tough choice. It was the same for me and I went with the larger unit. With what I know now from running it on the house I may have...

Food for thought. I tested the MEP831a and even though it is only 3kw it started my 3/4hp well pump without any problem at all. The base demand on the house at the time was about 600w and the running wattage for the pump itself was about 700w. The inrush on the pump is about 40 amps...

I would say that if they have never been fueled and are still pickled from the elements they won't degrade. If they are exposed to air and the temperature/moisture swings from the environment we have here in NC the pin has been pulled on that grenade.

I can offer my opinion. My thoughts are based on more than 25 years working as an engineer and for the last 16 years as a facility engineer. Utilities have been my day job for a long time. That includes managing many MW of diesel power. In the world of generators the depreciation curve is...

Yea, that is the actuator for the speed control. I have that part set up and working correctly now. It's the electronic controller in the instrument panel that needs to be replaced. When I shoot the video it will cover setting up both parts.

For the batteries I'm using a pair of motorcycle batteries (YTX20L-BS). They are very close to the size of the factory battery. The pair was under $100. No lack of energy for the starter. Spins it right over. The ones I bought are sealed AGM which is what the stock battery is. I'm going to put...

Yours wouldn't be the longest trip to fix something. That award goes to the Chinese government. Most of Europe gets the second place prize. ;)

I'm between RDU and GSO so that is a possibility.

I wish I was close enough to help. I wonder what it would cost to fly to Ohio.. Hm.. :)

The little radiator hose looking thing goes on the intake of the engine. You can see if it looks like this one in the photo behind the fuel filter. Can you take a photo of the shelf on the right? I don't seem to have that on mine.

I'm stuck in limbo for the moment over the governor on the generator but that didn't stop me from going out and doing SOMETHING on it today. I picked up some weatherstripping from Lowes to go around the engine compartment hatch. The old material was long gone. WHAT A DIFFERENCE. Wow. This is...

That totally sucks about the contracts. I've seen that happen more times than I would care to say. Nothing like new owners not knowing enough about something to be competitive. I didn't write the guys name down but he sounded pretty young. He did say that the units weren't in production there...

I put in a request to the websites that offer to get you quotes for parts in the NSN network. I've gotten a number of quotes from vendors. I've been shocked at all of them. Here is the breakdown. ISO Group, Inc. - $415 Vanc, LLC - $565 LAS Defense, Inc. - $650 The folks at GAC were pleasant...

Thanks. That is how it works for about 30 minutes then it looses its mind. It will become unstable. Stability can be restored if I trim the gain pot down but it slowly becomes unstable again. Once I have the gain pot all the way down it will become unstable and there is nothing else I can do to...

If those are the ones listed on craigslist they look really nice. In my opinion something in the range of $3k will be what will move them in this area. $3k is what I invested for my MEP003a including its trailer.

The batteries arrived today so I installed them in the generator. They fit the battery tray nicely. The overall dimensions are a little smaller than the single battery they replace. For the difference in cost its more than worth it. I think I'm going to turn them 90 degrees to where they are now...

I shot a short video with the cellphone to show the governor working correctly (I did warm it up for a few minutes before dropping the load on it). The battery in the phone died while I was recording the second video where it was acting up so that file was lost. I'll go out and shoot another one...

That is one nice looking unit.

I had a friend find out the hard way that his propane generator while convenient was costly to run. His 17kw unit sucked a 500gal dry in a week. The tank wasn't totally full at the beginning of the ice storm but wow. My little Honda EU1000 burns about 2 gal of gas a DAY running the fridge, a few...

It should be JIC.