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  1. Keith_J

    Hear ye! Hear ye! To all M1031 contact truck owners!!

    SECM flood lamp upgrade The floodlamps that come with some SECMs are wired without a ground, mine were missing the wires so they were useless to me. I found a useful modification using standard Leviton rubber plugs to replace the unsafe 2-wire twist locks with standard grounded NEMA 5-15. You...
  2. Keith_J

    Hear ye! Hear ye! To all M1031 contact truck owners!!

    The only real problem with using this genset for home backup is the connection. If you want 120/240 split, you will have to reconnect the generator leads (12) in a parallel zig-zag instead of parallel wye. See the Lima MAC manual for details. You cannot use the existing circuit breakers so...
  3. Keith_J

    Hear ye! Hear ye! To all M1031 contact truck owners!!

    Yes, analog computers can do derivative and integral measurements al la calculus far faster than any digital computer. Even partial derivative equations can be solved far faster. Modern computers can solve just as fast but you wouldn't want a 1 GHz computer with 2 GB of code where a simple...
  4. Keith_J

    Hear ye! Hear ye! To all M1031 contact truck owners!!

    There is a lot more to the governor than just a few lines of code in a digital processor. The original electronic governor is an analog computer with integral, derivative and droop adjustable. Plus it has add on ramp generator and overspeed protection. Analog computers offer much faster...
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