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It is not just the MEP's It is insane across the board I just saw a set of 10 year old low hour (200-400) Onan's diesel standby units (2 10kW and a 15kW sell on GL for around $3,000 - 3,500 before fees) EUC required. Last year I bought a fairly nice (all the bells and whistles, skid mount...

If your looking at GL, it is usually 10% over bid for auction fee, plus these are sold as EUC items, so there is your time filling out and submitting the EUC (say half an hour), plus another half hour or more making sure GL received the EUC, correcting the EUC for any little typo. Then if this...

Just a couple of notes, I have a MEP-701a I paid about $400 for it last year with about 900 hours on the meter from the local GL site, typical ebay asking price for known running units is $1,200 - 1,600. If you look at the recent message thread about fair price for MEP-002a / MEP-003a's you...

The topic of 400 hz generators come up fairly often, if you don't have aircraft 400 hz equipment to power they are just about useless, they can be used on things with resistive only loads like strip heaters or incandesant lights, but will not work on anything with reactive loads, such as motors...

I am not an expert on this subject, however I think this is something that can't be addressed in simple terms like "battery charger" without understanding the types of battery chargers and how they work. Looking into battery chargers a while back I came across this...

I can't tell you anything specific, other than I have a different brand of survey meter of about the same vintage that uses either 6 or 8 9-volt batteries, it has been a while since I touched it. 2 of the batteries powered the display/control electronics, and the others I think were wired in...

For those of you that are curious about the sale I was following it ended with the MEP-002a's with a few hundred hours selling about $650 ($660 for the mismatched color ASK unit), the low hour MEP-002a's selling for $820-$1234 with most around $1050. The MEP-003a's were all low hour went for...

You should be able to add an electronic governor for $200-300 if you don't mind hunting ebay deals, it seems the 24 volt governors seem to sell for a lot less than the 12 volt ones on ebay, I guess it is supply and demand. I equipped the 125KW Onan here at work with one (actuator, controller...

I will give you that the hours do make them look attractive, while the majority of this lot is single digit hours, there are a few oddballs, with 500-950 hours, and their current bids are right there in line with the low hour units. Of course this could be due to bidders not paying attention to...

You may be right about buying when the very large lots come up, the problem is around here (within a reasonable days drive anyway, it seems all the large lots are always on the east coast, VA, PA, NY), the lots tend to be either the odd one off's or batches of 20-30, and it seems the 20-30 lots...

I just have to wonder where is the resell market for these units, the lots I am watching end today, and the MEP-003a's are already starting to top $2,000 ($2,200 once you add the fees), which might not be bad for a known running uint, but for an unknown it seems very high to me. It gets even...

I found the opposite to be true when I bought my MEP-701a, I was outbid on several occasions when generators were selling in larger lots. I won mine on a day where it was the only generator up for auction at the local GL location. Ike

The gurus over at the smokstak onan generator board generally say the J series engines (which the MEP-002a and MEP-003a are based on) are good for about 5,000 - 10,000 hours before needing to be rebuilt. One of these gurus that worked as an Onan service tech for 30+ years once commented on...

I know we are always saying how shocked we are at the selling prices of these generators lately. After watching a GL auction bidding open, and bids go to over $500 for MEP-002's and over $1,200 MEP-003's across the board in the first few hours of bidding on a 4 day auction. I thought this was...

It seems to me that these problems are more common at some locations than at others. Having said that based on my limited experience with only 2 GL sites, I am not sure how much control of the site is in the hands of the GL people, and how much is in the hands of the DRMO people, etc. The...

I agree with Speddmon, MEP-002's and MEP-003's of all types have been going for insane prices the last year or so. When I have watched them on GL auctions even without a trailer potentially running units commonly sell for $1,000 - $1,500 or more, and obviously parts only units go for $500+...

As a rule of thumb well built 1800 rpm diesel generators are capable of up to 10,000 hours before needing a major engine rebuild, this is much like saying cars can last 200,000 miles or whatever, some make it that far, some don't, but regardless at 1,200 hours its not shockingly low, but not...

Someone may want it just for the engine, I am not sure what engine is in there, but with only 30 something hours on the meter it might be a deal after all it is a 30KW generator so probably a 3 or 4 cylinder engine, being 1990's vintage it is likely an adaptation of an off the shelf engine. I...

Can anyone tell me the key differences between the -3 and the -4 version of the 4a032 military standard engine? thanks Ike

You have a Davey MC1A compressor, there are several variants of that use the same basic engine and compressor, I think the primary purpose of this particular type was general high pressure air for aircraft servicing. Other versions were used for pressurizing nitrogen systems and yet others for...