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If you don't have to lift it very high you can use an engine hoist in a pinch. Loading a 803 into the back of my F350 was a little sketchy but it did work. Lifting one a foot or two to get onto a low deck height trailer would be no problem.

I use an inexpensive gantry with a chain hoist.

If it won't pull a full load run it as high a load as it can while maintaining RPM. If its wetstacked it will smoke a lot. Once the smoke clears add load till it stumbles then back it down a bit. Repeat this pattern till it will handle a full load. Don't forget to let it cool under light load...

The biggest issue I've had with the lawn batteries is most of them today are crap. They have internal discharge issues and if you don't keep a trickle charger on them they will die and sulfate. I find that at least half of the batteries I buy have self discharge issues. The lawn batteries...

I've pretty much given up on the generator hobby from the buying and selling side. I figure I might be able to offer service as more of them get out into the wild.

Careful what you wish for! :D I'm going to be in China for September. I'm hoping to make a run through Europe next year.

They provide balancing loads for the over current system.

I hate that you are having to go through all this BUT your work will be a boon to others that need to travel the same path.

I think at issue is the difference between rating and capability. The rating is 416v. If you are going to operate it per norms for power delivery the voltage needs to be within 5% of the rating. That would certainly exclude it from being run at 460-480 range except in unusual cercumstances. That...

My weed eater does not like Rotella but it seems to really like Mobile1. Go figure.

To run the higher voltage means you are running the exciter coils harder (I'm not a fan of that). You are stressing the insulation a little more (not that big a deal). Also your overload protection will be out of whack (not good). If it were me and it was needed for a short term emergency I...

I've been trying to snag a real load bank for a number of years. The struggle is real {sigh}

Either method is a compromise that reduces the total energy the alternator can deliver to the load. In my opinion I prefer the zig-zag due to all the paralleled windings being in phase with each other. With the double delta you are summing two windings and paralleling it with another. If all the...

That is what I'm talking about. You need (as it shows in the diagram) to measure at the top and bottom of travel. Don't measure outside the area where the rings move in the cylinder. I personally do top, middle, and bottom. That also confirms the taper in the cylinder. Make sure the minimum gap...

Did you check the ring gap?

These generators in reality have several different ratings. The ultimate short term power rating is all about engine power. That is why they will go above their rating. Because the engine has enough power output to keep swinging the load. The long term power limit is more about thermal...

You're on the right track but here is the kicker, a double delta is not better than zigzag in these generators because a double delta allows for a series parallel operation of the coils and what that does is any phase imbalance is converted to circulating current in the coil's. This leads to...

To oversimplify it its due to a 3 phase winding setup being connected in series. You are looking at the sum of all the vectors of the three phase coils in the series circuit. There is some cancellation of energy which shows up as a slightly less than perfect sine wave. To get into the weeds of...

Yep. Looks typical for a 12 wire alternator in single phase configuration. If if you put it in 3 phase mode and look again the peak should be rounded a little more. BUT there is nothing wrong with the overall shape of the waveform. Everything in the house should be quite happy with it.

This is what I put my money on for the reason for the broken rocker.