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If your running it at half throttle you have bigger problems than the frequency being off. Running these units at anything under 1800 rpms for more than a few seconds is very likely to burn out the voltage regulator. They are designed to be started and immediately run at 1800 rpms (1800 rpms =...

Hardy Diesel sells a nice little LED frequency/volt meter with a standard 120V plug on the end off ebay for about $20 (search term: voltage frequency meter), several people over on the smokstak board including myself have bought them. One nice thing about the meter is internally it is labeled...

I recently had to deal with a dead fuel pump on a generator (not a MEP), the Facet pumps are ok, but if you really need it to work go with a Walbro 6000 series or its new replacement the FR series. These are the brand of pumps you find on Thermo King refrigeration units as well as many other...

It depends on the house, I bought a 30KW (rated at 33KW single phase) Kohler diesel generator from GL for my elderly mother's house last year, it is a fairly large all electric house on a farm with a water well, etc. This generator allows her to live life as normal without need to worry about...

It is probably the voltage regulator, I am fairly sure the voltage regulators on the MEP-002 and MEP-003 are designed to fail at full voltage, there is a trouble shooting and repair section in the tech manuals. Ike

The generator is an Onan J series, either DJB or DJE (DJE is the bored out version of the DJB and is visually identical), if your spec code is equal to or higher than AA (this is at the end of the full model number as it appears on dataplate, I am guessing something like 6.0DJE-3CM???????AA then...

Someone on ebay is selling data plates for a MEP-017a which should be nearly identical in style to the MEP-016a, of course the actual data (amps, weight, measurements, etc.) will be off. Still there is a nice high res image of it if you want to take a look, who knows it may be worth sending a...

Yeah, much like another generator (non MEP) I saw listed on ebay last night, it looked like a potential good deal for someone at its buy it now price. Of course no where in the ad did it list how many hours were on the unit, or even if it runs. Ike

First off the tech manuals are available for download, its a good place to start on the one that seems to not be charging. These units have DC voltage regulators was well as built in DC charger alternators . The DC charging voltage regulator is behind the fold down gauge panel, all the way at...

Here is an example of the 60 hz rotor (2 pole 3600 rpm from a MEP-016B) vs its 400 hz cousin Ike

There is no practical way to change these over, at best they are potential deals for the engines alone, particularly if you have one of their 60 hz cousins with a bad engine. The vast majority of the 400 hz units use different rotors, different instrumentation different voltage regulation, etc...

I just watched a GL auciton close at Ft. Polk on another the likely reset ultra-low hour MEP-002a at over an hour an fifteen minutes after closing time thanks to the 15 minute rule, selling price $1366 before fees. In the same auction a lot of 2 MEP-003'a sold for about $1,200 at about an hour...

Depending on what you need Harbor Freight sells a road legal 40x50 inch deck 870 pound capacity trailer for under $200 which I think would be just about right once you add a small external fuel tank. Ike p.s. be glad yours is as light as it is, my MEP-701a / MEP-016B with ASK weighs in just...

One thing to keep in mind is the human ear is a very poor detector of how loud a sound is, what people do hear is variation in sound, like the sharp pulsating note of a one cylinder engine vs. the smooth rumble of a big inline 6. People may think the pop-pop-pop of the one cylinder is louder...

It all depends on your electrical loads, size of the house, and how much you want to run during an outage. Remember the larger the generator the more fuel it will burn even at a light load. For me, I don't mind roughing it a bit and managing loads, a 3KW MEP-701a will handle all of my...

How are your trailers wired? Whats your amp load, any motors, or just resistive heaters like deep fryer, etc? I ask because most of the (often trailer mounted) military surplus units in the size range your talking about tend to have reconnection boards that only allow for choosing between low...

I can't help you on 400KW exactly, however I can tell you that I saw a pair of 230KW industrial Onans sell for $6,000 - $7,000 each on GL near here last fall, the cheaper of the 2 showed 7,000+ hours on he meter, the more expensive was slightly newer same model with digital controller and...

Skidunits4U, this topic started out because the MEP-016A/016C have no neutral brought out in the 240V mode, and the manual for the 016B is lacking information (wrong information too, the reconnection diagram is labelled wrong) and only labels the connection 240V (which may have a 120V neutral...

Have you checked the connection terminals? Ike p.s. On mine the onboard outlet is wired up with only a single hot leg going to it, without the hot side jumper cut, (only 1 fuse connected, both other holders disconnected) not like the description in the tech manual. The wiring for this...

1 MEP-701a (MEP-016B with ASK) , 890 hours from local GL site, battery mostly dead, started with fuel, oil and jump start on first try, small pinhole leak in oil cooler (found a replacement on ebay for about $30-40) otherwise good. Also non-MEP generators from GL: Kohler 30ROZJ diesel skid...