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My folks have been running on a Mep-802a since yesterday morning.
Edit: Power has been restored.
Storms rolled through and knocked down over 100 poles in the area. Heavy straight line winds and several inches of rain made quite a mess.
Things have been running fairly decent. My teenage son is currently staying with them to help around the farm for the summer. Between him and my father, they were able to get the trailer in place and the gen hooked up. The transfer switch they got last Fall made that a little easier.
Son sounded kind of proud when he called yesterday to say the power had been out, but don't worry, he got the generator going.
In the beginning, they had a minor problem with the genset shutting itself off roughly every hour. The NO FUEL light was lit on the fault panel, but the tank was over 3/4 full. They topped it off and it would run for a while, then give the same fault.
It is currently running with the Battle Short on to bypass that fault.
I will be heading out there next week and will take a closer look then. Thoughts on what's causing the fault:
1) problem with the floats in the tank
2) debris in the tank
3) loose connection somewhere in the float circuit
4) fuel cap too tight
5) gremlins
We've had this genset for several years and it's never shown this fault before. It was recently mounted on a small trailer last Fall. That's the only change I can think of.
Other than this occasional fault, it is running fine. Just looking for ideas of what to check next week.
Edit: Power has been restored.
Storms rolled through and knocked down over 100 poles in the area. Heavy straight line winds and several inches of rain made quite a mess.
Things have been running fairly decent. My teenage son is currently staying with them to help around the farm for the summer. Between him and my father, they were able to get the trailer in place and the gen hooked up. The transfer switch they got last Fall made that a little easier.
Son sounded kind of proud when he called yesterday to say the power had been out, but don't worry, he got the generator going.

In the beginning, they had a minor problem with the genset shutting itself off roughly every hour. The NO FUEL light was lit on the fault panel, but the tank was over 3/4 full. They topped it off and it would run for a while, then give the same fault.
It is currently running with the Battle Short on to bypass that fault.
I will be heading out there next week and will take a closer look then. Thoughts on what's causing the fault:
1) problem with the floats in the tank
2) debris in the tank
3) loose connection somewhere in the float circuit
4) fuel cap too tight
5) gremlins
We've had this genset for several years and it's never shown this fault before. It was recently mounted on a small trailer last Fall. That's the only change I can think of.
Other than this occasional fault, it is running fine. Just looking for ideas of what to check next week.
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