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All great advice. I see that 6awg at some places is rated at 50A and others 55A. Want to stay away from aluminum wire. Ripped it out of my 220V house wiring and rewired with copper. I looked at the many different types of wiring vs cost vs direct placement vs above ground. Of course the...

I could do 4 strands 6 awg of THHN in a buried conduit if legal.

Not even in a conduit?

I am looking for about 60 feet of wire to connect my MEP803A to my service panel. I figure I need 3 wires of 4awg and 1 of 6 awg (ground) or 4/4 awg for a 60 amp capable tie in. I think it is less expensive to run solid copper single strand than THHN 4/4 braided. If I run either, I am going...

Don't think I'll be using the heat pump function much. Maybe 3 nights last year but there is the odd year like when we got 10 or so consecutive nights of sub freezing temps. They say the farmers pulled over 11 millions gallons daily out of the ground to protect the crops. Local wells went dry...

Trying to get everything out of what I paid for. Assuming 12.5KW at standard load, that is 52.08 amps @ 240VAC So lets say that I am running a continuous 30A load for my house (lights, camera, action).....no seriously, pool pump (timer), salt water generator (timer), lights, refer, freezer...

It's enough generator. I just want every available watt it can produce to be available. If I put 50A breakers in then I am potentially cutting 8 amps out of the power curve. That's almost 2000 watts. Two thousand watts run a lot......

Yeah.....the connectors. They do cost so I'm thinking direct wire from genset to panel. No connectors needed, right from the load terminals to the panel breakers and bound N G strips. When the breakers are occ, I can still load the genset at the L terminals.

Every last watt I can safely squeeze out of it. Granted it won't be 100% power 100% of the time but even with load management, there will be times when every watt is needed.

Yea....getting my 803 in a couple of days. Sitting on a pallet in Tampa. Was doing some calculations and can see that 10kw is not a safe output figure. Some of these can go to 14kw and run all day long. This begs the question that at 14kw 240VAC means a feed output of 58Amps. Much more than...

Should I be looking at specific brands for matching compressor and the soft start, as I have a Bryant AC Unit? So whatever compressor Bryant is using. I kind of get the impression that it really does not matter based on the limited research I have been able to do. Are they all going to run in...

I'm in for a set pending pricing.

I have a 3.5 ton AC Compressor/Heat Pump for my 2000 ft^2 home that will be fed by an MEP803A along with other household electric items. Load management is key and things are on timers for a reason. I read a thread about draw current (inrush) on AC Compressors and how that inrush current need...

Can't say as I am not in possession of the 803A at this time. It's not the gen but the motor that is choking at about 85% load. As soon as I get it, I'll start a new thread with all the relevant information.

IIRC, when I was in the military they were called "Donkey Dicks". Never heard them called anything else than that, even when doing a change of command inventory. They were made of flexible metal tubes and you could never find one when you needed it. We did find a stash in the WAC Shack at one...

Well, that gives me some idea. I can have this one for a little over $3K with 202 hours on the generator an 5 hours on the rebuilt engine, but with the issues mentioned. I still think that this is going to be an minor fix. For a low hour generator with a newly rebuilt engine, it is hard to...

A full refund has been on the table since the beginning on this.

Right....where these gensets that are not working, wont crank, have parts missing, and are mostly salvage, sell for over $5K not counting the processing fee and time and trouble for pick up. Yes, I have seen some great deals happen when reading the forum but as a general rule, expecially due to...

Can anyone tell me who is the most savvy guy/gal on the forum with experience with the MEP803A's? I would like to reach out to them and provide some pictures and the cross emails to see if he/she can come up with what the issue may be. I would post in the thread but there are many pictures and...

I paid for it when I bought it. When it was going through its final check before shipping, he heard a knock in the motor (220 hours on the set, no indication of reset) so he agreed to rebuild the engine.