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Pay attention to the piston in the injection pump (they tend to sieze if its been sitting awhile).
If you have never operated one before, you have to hold it to start until the field flashes and the low oil pressure switch has been satisfied.
Never ever idle the engine. keep it close to 60 hz
Turn to prime and run. If its clucking fast it's pumping fuel. When it slows its seeing pressure. I usually crack a line to vent the air.
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Pay close attention to the linkages, you may want to install a battery cutoff switch. Make sure you ground it before attempting to start it, and NEVER idle them
220 and 240 are the same thing. If you are not needing 3 phase (120/280) then keep it in single phase mode. In an ideal world the legs are balanced, any imbalance is wasted to ground.
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If you are drawing 18 amps on L1 and 22 amps on L3 you are drawing 22 amps overall. The extra 4 amps are going to chassis.
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Do me a favor. Get me a schedule of each panel. I might be able to help you figure out a different solution. Pics help too.
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When you get it to fail jump the oil pressure switch. If it still fails jump the temp switch. See if either of them keep it running. Then you need to determine if it's a bad switch or the switch is protecting the set
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First of all, how big is the house to have a 400 amp service? Second the short and easy answer is it has to carry the largest current potentially applied to it. So you need a 400 amp switch. You can go smaller if and only if you setup an emergency sub panel. Put all the loads you want to run on...