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There was like 100 of these things for sell recently on GP figured I'd pick one up myself in a few weeks after everyone else gets theirs so hopefully price drops a bit.

Already checked fuses F1-F4 all test good Small price to pay to at least see

we are gonna test that theory because im gonna solder up a makeshift connector and tryit...not much too lose at this point lol, it completely burned out the 2 middle pins of that 6 pin molex...that seemingly is the only visible damage gonna order a new 1 dollar connector and rebuild the 2...

I'm gonna guess in blowing out all the dirt I must moved 1 or more of the 1000's of pieces of debres that fell out of this thing and shorted something and the next time it got power it went

looks like that bottom port exploded...also this thing is full of those white little eggs like in the bottom left

I'll go do that and see what she looks like

Looks like I'll be buying a kloppk controller lol, but not until it makes power first, what is "WOT at startup", I haven't messed with the governor controller at all so must have been in its past life sadly, the terminals for the battery are on "backwards" currently colorwise but are not...

No leds are on when running, and after moving knob to start position it seems to idle very high, I made a video showing what it is doing (mainly nothing) This thing was buried in a mixture of pine needles and diesel fuel, the main fuel line was rock hard and leaking for what seems like a good...

Found this little guy on marketplace and went and picked it up, he said it made power, got it home checked fluids and fired it up and sure enough it made power fine so tested a few fans and what not, rolled it outside to use air compressor to blow all the pine needles out of it and after done...

@CallMeColt released a new video!

Unless you are running it maxed out + the sensitive electronics I wouldn't worry about it, the harmonics as you see with no load is about ~4% which is fine, it probably doesn't start distorting alot until under a 60%+ load, if you want to condition it tho obv will not hurt anything and everyone...

they are indeed terrible but easy to buy for like $50 bucks a pop repair them (generally just lack of maintenance) and flip for $200 after a good wash, oil change, re adjustment of governor and avr pot and load test.

No surprises all pretty clean except 831 with gen head I don't think I've ever seen a single cylinder non inverter generator ever under 9% THD, all the crappy throw away portables (by this i mean the typical tube cage honda clone engine with an "insert name of place you bought it from here"...

I'm trying to talk myself into buying another set and you are ruining it lol

This is what I have so far

Thanks ya that is essentially what I am doing aswell figured it would be safe since all safeties should remain intact, how are you handling the switch flips? solid state relays?

So I design alot of pcbs/circuits for mods for retro systems like gameboys etc and have alot of MCU's laying around figured I would make some rudimentary autostart, I did manage to get an autostart made for about $7 in parts that works but was curious if I am going about it properly and if I...

Love seeing genset work like this thanks for taking the time to document and post pics, hopefully we can squeeze a few youtube vids out of you by the time this is done!

Except we are discussing swapping the MEP-831a from an inverter running an extremely clean ~1.1% THD to a normal genhead which increased THD to 11.8% which is a 1000% increase in dirty power lol especially when the IEEE 519 recommends not using sensitive devices on anything higher than ~5% THD...

There is a nice write up here https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/harmonics-influence that will explain the negative effects on multiple different types of devices like even normal motors will run hotter than normal, degradation of fuses etc It isn't that all these devices will not run on...