MEP 802 Need help badly - post Helene in FL

[Florida Marine]

I have a newer 802, have had it probably three years, never given me an issue. Used it extensively during Idalia and Debbie both.

Just over 100 hours, changed the oil yesterday. Ran fine yesterday, ran fine this morning. Went to tarp up a friends house, came back to it not running (wife was home she didn't hear it stop).

Won't crank from the front start, but will crank from the inside switch. Won't catch and fire up. When I put it in normal mode, and turn the rotary switch, it primes, then when you hit start two relays inside make contact, think it was the 2/3 from the LEFT or might be the 3/4 from the LEFT... Sorry, I am in a panic here, should have videoed it. BUT it won't crank from the front panel rotary. No apparent leaks, nothing amiss that I can see with a quick but thorough review of the workings.

I am going to dig into the manuals that I have, but PLEASE help me out here - running clean fuel. And the only thing that changed was the oil yesterday and it ran fine all day.

Where do I start?

Thank you.

 

[Light in the Dark]

Have you cycled your emergency stop button in and out? Do you have any faults lit up on the fault panel, or did you?

 

[Florida Marine]

Have you cycled your emergency stop button in and out? Do you have any faults lit up on the fault panel, or did you?

I put the battle short to ON and there were no faults that were present. Cycled the emergency stop button also.

 

[Light in the Dark]

See if this does anything... with the dead crank switch set to the normal running position (down) go to the front of the machine and turn the start switch to prime. Pumps run, right? Hold in the reset button on the fault panel, and while holding it down... crank the machine over. Does it do anything? Have you confirmed your battle short is still set to OFF?

 

[Florida Marine]

See if this does anything... with the dead crank switch set to the normal running position (down) go to the front of the machine and turn the start switch to prime. Pumps run, right? Hold in the reset button on the fault panel, and while holding it down... crank the machine over. Does it do anything? Have you confirmed your battle short is still set to OFF?

Brother I owe you a beer. Did that and it fired right up... So, I am guessing I have a fault to run down? Wow...what a relief. This has been insane and I just didn't need this right now.

Sean

 

[Florida Marine]

My brain is worn out. Thank you so much.

 

[Light in the Dark]

The unit will never start with the battle short in the ON position, nor will it start if a fault has occurred, which has not yet been 'reset'.

 

[Florida Marine]

The unit will never start with the battle short in the ON position, nor will it start if a fault has occurred, which has not yet been 'reset'.

Noted. I was a user of these, not a maintainer operator...so my knowledge is like a half millimeter deep. It has been flawless until today. I am very, very grateful. Not even sure when our power is coming back on, everything is leveled here. I got my starlink terminal or I would be flat out hosed.

Thank you again!

 

[Light in the Dark]

Nothing like sweating over lack of knowledge, to motivate one to not repeat something in the future. Glad you are back up and it got going again easily.