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derf, that's true, but any load bank will get hot if it is working... Even those oil heaters will reach temperatures of 200 degrees (F) in normal operation (I checked, right after the guy who was helping me said "Dang, that's hot!") But agreed, a water heater is a poor last choice, IMHO as well.

OK, what I use... 1. I have three of those (little) oil-filled electric heaters, total draw can be about 4500 watts (assuming three phase). 2. Then I have a bunch of electric baseboard units that were removed from my daughter's house. 3. My (old) electric stove (now my powder-coat oven)...

Just to muddy the water a bit, I did see, at a private auction, a generator set with about 20K hours on it... Now, we can consider that one to be 'well used'!

If the frequency meter is one that uses 120 volts (most do) you can check the calibration of the meter with a standard 120 volt outlet. The normal house current is very accurate as to frequency, so that works well.

Wolf, I wonder how they fit into the head on those engines... I'll have to see if I can dig up an illustrated manual for one of those engines.

Interesting, to say the least! I wonder if it might be adapted to a MEP-004? Next time I'm at TSC, I'll have to check on it.

Is that a glow plug in the intake runner? Great looking piece of iron!

Actually Bill W a FAQ or WIKI works well for this reason. Searching sucks, if you are not good at getting the keywords right, you either get nothing or you get every post ever made (or so it seems!) I really would like to see a Wiki for each series of generator set (such as one for the...

All I can say is "ouch", 120+ gallons in a 24 hour period! I'd have to be :cookoo: to try that at my place! :jumpin: Roughly $0.34/KWH in fuel costs alone--not cheap by any computation.

Great response! But my math says at 60 KWH, you are looking at about 6 to 8 gallons per hour, so if run for 24 hours, it will be even worse! (perhaps a couple of hundred gallons!) :jumpin: The MEP-004 (15 KW) drinks about 1 to 1.5 gallon per hour for comparison.

Glow plugs are only used in engines that have 'pre-combustion chambers'. For direct injection engines (where the fuel is injected directly into the cylinder) glow plugs are not used. Examples of direct injection engines are the Dodge truck's Cummins diesel, and the Hercules engines in the...

Too much thread drift, if someone starts a "why (no) glow plugs" thread I'll post a short writeup on why.

Again, a MEP-004 does not have glow plugs, so any company suggesting that there are glow plugs there doesn't really know enough about these units to give advice.

Because of lack of quoting, this thread is a bit confusing, but if you are referring to Bimota's MEP, I believe that it is a MEP-004 which does not have glow plugs. I'll have to check my manual to see, but there was a 'remote' control system for the MEP-004, and IIRC, there was also the...

Yes, look for places that sell industrial surplus electrical/electronic/equipment. We've a place near me (Manchester NH) like this, and they frequently have 3-phase transformers sitting there--they are a dog to sell because shipping is a PITA, so the basic prices are low. Last one I looked at...

Bimota, download the manuals (all of them) and you will find out about things such as parallel operation, and other accessories. There is even a remote panel (never seen one, however) to allow remote operation of the generator set. As to multi-site power, it is a 15 KW (can probably do 20 KW)...

As kgblazerfive says, keep on start. Instead of thinking "the motor is running" instead use the volt meter (or frequency meter) as an indication that it is time to release the start switch. It is not intuitive at all, we're trained from day one to always release the start position as soon as the...

After you flash with the 12 volts, does it continue to work after removing the 12 volts, or drop back to zero? (I wasn't quite sure from your post...)

The only issue with rewiring for single phase is that you don't get full output, in fact it appears you get about the same output you'd get using two of the three phases, so the only advantage is that you have 240 instead of 208. In my case I didn't think the additional volts was going to be...

That does work, and I know people who do that, the only risk is that you risk over-voltage when large loads switch off before the regulator pulls it back to the setting. For most everything that is not an issue, but for some electronics it might be an issue. (What happens when you drive it to...