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  1. Light in the Dark

    MEP 803a when does the overload kick in? Motor bogs down big time when overloaded.

    How long were you overloading in this manner? The set does have burden resistors, to do the heavy lifting. Seafoam is excellent stuff, if you have never run it. Just dump a whole can in the tank and give it ****.
  2. Light in the Dark

    MEP 803a when does the overload kick in? Motor bogs down big time when overloaded.

    Yes 16 is too much to ask of this genset. While Lister does rate the LPW4 for 18.7kw @ 1800rpm, thats not going to work in these sets (http://www.lister-petter.com/p/power-water-solutions/4/lp-range/1/engines/16/lpw4). You could always wire the elements differently. For example my load bank has...
  3. Light in the Dark

    MEP 803a when does the overload kick in? Motor bogs down big time when overloaded.

    What does the exhaust look like? If it has trouble recovering, you might want to run some Seafoam through the set, and let it rip at full rated load (or close to it) for a few hours. Will help clean up the entire combustion system. Then retest and see if she takes the load better.
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