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Depending on location there is some truth to all this, I have a friend that worked in the quality control lab at a major refinery back in the 90's and over the years I learned a lot about gasoline, etc. from him. At the time he was there the whole RFG gasoline transition was going on with...

In addition to Steelypip's suggestion about getting a MEP-701a housing, be aware there was also a similar looking trailer mounting housing for the MEP-016b

Thanks will do, just have to wait a bit, my wife and I just put an offer in on a new house this week, plus I have already spent over $400 on generator toys in the last month (injectors, spin on oil filter, new starter, etc.)

There are any number of common causes for this, the first thing I would look at are the 3 electric fuel pumps, the first thing I would do is disconnect all 3 then see if your still seeing the breaker pop, if not reconnect them one at a time until you find the bad one. Before going too far it...

Sounds to me like you have a bad voltage regulator, if the stator was bad you would not see voltage rise over time, so I am going to assume you were not reading it right, did you put your meter on AC volts for the stator? Ike

The SX-460 is a good generic choice most of the time, I just wanted to ask because there is potential for damaging the regulator or possibly the generator if it is not a good match on field resistance or excitation current. To try to answer your questions, keeping in mind there are a number of...

I think you may be getting ahead of yourself, how did you go about determining that an SX-460 was an appropriate voltage regulator for the MB-19? Is the MB-19 a brushless design, do you have resistance and excitation values for the exciter?, etc?? Ike

A couple of more points of comparison, my MEP-002a does spark, and my MEP-003a does not

I would not worry too much about the rust unless you live in a coastal area, in that case you may want to clean it up and paint it with high heat paint. As to the voltage issue sounds to me like you have a battery charging regulator going bad. You should test it with a good multimeter to make...

Rapracing, that sounds like my MEP-003a before I changed the injectors on the 2 cylinders that smoked, now it still starts rough, but clears up and stops smoking after only 5-10 seconds

#2 conductors in SO style cord is good for up to about 20KW, conductor size gets big fast as generators get larger

It is likely an injector problem, even if recently rebuilt these units do tend to sit up in less than ideal conditions for a while before being sold. White smoke like you describe is usually caused by either a injector problem, or by a compression problem, either valves or rings. I recently...

About the only other thing you might do is try to find an aircraft mechanic than needs a 400 hz generator for ground support

I was just wondering does the Style 1 Starter found on some MEP-002a and MEP-003a generators have any advantage over the Style 2 starters? I know the Style 2 draw less amps when starting. Ike

Overall looks good, I just wish it had NFPA-110 industry standard 3 attempt cycle cranking start attempts (15 second crank, 15 second rest, repeat 3 times), and standard 10 second delay before transfer to emergency power options on the DIP switches. Sure it is unlikely to provide full NFPA-110...

I have not ran a compression test yet, mostly because I have misplaced my diesel compression gauge, I know I have one, just don't know where it is hiding. I may try to do a leak down test though Ike

Yes, glow plugs tested good on all. I bought 4 used injectors off ebay a while back, then picked up a used pop tester cheap, out of the 4, 2 tested Good with good spray pattern and pop off at 1750 psi, 1, tested ok pop off also right on at 1750 psi, but spray pattern a little less than ideal...

I had to pull the fan shroud off of my MEP-003a in order to change out 2 of my diesel injectors. The two cylinders on the end closest to the blower were very slow to fire after starting on the other two (5-10 seconds), and would blow white smoke for a couple of minutes, changing out the...

Upon looking closer including the youtube video, there does seem to be a few points like this that need to be addressed. For example a high vibration fuse is probably also in order, and none of the DIP switches allow control of cycle cranking, if it even has cycle cranking on a failure to start...

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