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Well, looks like I am going to be bringing another MEP831 home.

Yea, that is the actuator for the speed control. I have that part set up and working correctly now. It's the electronic controller in the instrument panel that needs to be replaced. When I shoot the video it will cover setting up both parts.

For the batteries I'm using a pair of motorcycle batteries (YTX20L-BS). They are very close to the size of the factory battery. The pair was under $100. No lack of energy for the starter. Spins it right over. The ones I bought are sealed AGM which is what the stock battery is. I'm going to put...

I'm stuck in limbo for the moment over the governor on the generator but that didn't stop me from going out and doing SOMETHING on it today. I picked up some weatherstripping from Lowes to go around the engine compartment hatch. The old material was long gone. WHAT A DIFFERENCE. Wow. This is...

That totally sucks about the contracts. I've seen that happen more times than I would care to say. Nothing like new owners not knowing enough about something to be competitive. I didn't write the guys name down but he sounded pretty young. He did say that the units weren't in production there...

I put in a request to the websites that offer to get you quotes for parts in the NSN network. I've gotten a number of quotes from vendors. I've been shocked at all of them. Here is the breakdown. ISO Group, Inc. - $415 Vanc, LLC - $565 LAS Defense, Inc. - $650 The folks at GAC were pleasant...

Thanks. That is how it works for about 30 minutes then it looses its mind. It will become unstable. Stability can be restored if I trim the gain pot down but it slowly becomes unstable again. Once I have the gain pot all the way down it will become unstable and there is nothing else I can do to...

The batteries arrived today so I installed them in the generator. They fit the battery tray nicely. The overall dimensions are a little smaller than the single battery they replace. For the difference in cost its more than worth it. I think I'm going to turn them 90 degrees to where they are now...

I shot a short video with the cellphone to show the governor working correctly (I did warm it up for a few minutes before dropping the load on it). The battery in the phone died while I was recording the second video where it was acting up so that file was lost. I'll go out and shoot another one...

I found the detailed TM for the MEP831. The procedure to setup the governor starts on page 161. I hope posting a link to the manual I stumbled across isn't against the rules. http://www.liberatedmanuals.com/TM-9-6115-639-13-and-P.pdf

Once I have mine fully working I plan to shoot a video on how to set the speed control up.

I wasn't using a scope. I used the freq reading on the old fluke 87 meter. That worked fine. Not that I want to deter you from buying a new toy though. I have a couple of them laying around here. ;)

Thanks. For a while it looked like I was about done. I'm going to try again later today and see if it has gotten its mind back. I did try a number of things but here is what it's doing, the actuator will have a spazam about once a second and it wouldn't behave after that started. I could apply...

I may have a bad speed controller. I had everything running well. It would take the load and drop down when the load dropped. Everything looked to be in order. I was letting it run with no load and after about 20 minutes it went totally nuts. The throttle actuator just goes back and forth full...

Here is where I am now. The events here are the order I made the adjustments. I set the magnet pulloff to a dead nuts 5lbs. It was a LOT less than that when I started. That was even after I had tweaked it for more hold. I measured the pulloff before the adjustment at about 3.25 lbs. It is a...

Ok. Great. The info on RPM and pull will certainly get me started. I've done pulloff tests a number of times with magnets. I'm comfortable with doing that. Thanks so much for the info.

It does. If the specification for pulloff is listed somewhere I can make sure it is set to the correct value. The governor was not running with that sized gap when I got it running originally. The gap was much larger than that. Thanks for your info and patience.

OK. I can do that. The issue that was presenting is that the magnet would not hold onto the shoe when it was shutting down. It would hold it for a second but as the engine wound down and the pressure on the governor lever increased it would pop off leaving the engine running at a very low idle...

I'm working on putting together a 3kw load. I did adjust the magnet. It was approx 1/8th turn. I can certainly put it back to where it was.

There are some many little things that seem to be off on this unit I has made me wonder if it was put together this way as some kind of a training system to test technicians on how to troubleshoot and repair them. :) My goal is to have it running as close to specification as possible.