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You can find people testing them in grid-down situations. They do not perform to their nameplate when running from battery alone. Seems they are optimized for parallel operation where the utility handles inrush currents. When running straight off battery they can trip offline when a heavy...

Please dear god, not a solark. Anything but one of those.

Or you could go with the 10xx series machines that can parallel out of the box. By the time you do all the work to make an 80x generation machine do it, you've already paid the price difference to get 10xx machines.

And by complex it means replacing parts. The 802 or 803 shouldn't be paralled in their stock form. The voltage regulators as an example aren't designed for parallel operation and would have to be replaced with one that was designed for it.

Something else to consider is in the civilian world the 803 would be rated at 12.5-13kw. You don't want to run it quite THAT hard all the time but don't worry if you run it to 10kw for long periods. It should live for that.

With a modest amount of load management a 803 should handle everything you need to get you through an outage. I have an 803 here and its too much for my house. Can't keep enough load on it to prevent wetstacking. Now I run it only to charge batteries or run high current appliances. The inverter...

Right now there is a generator listed for sale on FB Marketplace that would work far better than trying to take one of MEP804/805 machines and forcing them into a scenario they were never designed for. I love these machines but I also know they aren't for everyone nor are they for every job...

I need to ask the obvious question - why are you wanting to do this? As an aside, the 004 and 005 generation machines can be wired single phase. It is a bit of work but possible.