Search results

definitely. I've gone through in the past and read reports of linemen who have been injured or killed because some idiot decided his lights being on right now is more important than the safety of the people trying to restore his power. That's why I get really touchy when the subject of...

So a "backfeed" is where you take an outlet, such as the dryer outlet, and make a cord so that instead of power coming out of that outlet, you are feeding power into it. When you have an interlock you are specifically preventing a circuit from being connected to the rest of the panel without...

As far as I know, there isn't any legal/approved method of "backfeeding" an electrical panel. As has been stated, only using a proper transfer switch or interlock in the breaker panel can a generator be safely/legally used to power your household loads. What size generator are you using to...

beach run today. a couple 5 tons, a medium equipment transport, an M715, a couple LMTVs, and 3 HMMWVs. It was commented that the HMMWVs were like the little kids of the group, playing around pretty much everywhere on the beach, driving over logs and hills, and just generally having fun.

That was my thought as well, but as you said, not a one person job.

that depends on what you're renting and where you are starting/stopping. They can't track mileage on trailers, so if you rent it near your home and return it the same place, all you pay for is the daily rental fee. If you rent it at the far end and return it at your end, they'll hit you with...

I recently acquired a truckload of random DRASH stuff, and found a couple vehicle boots in the pile, so I tried one out with the BEOD and it fits just fine. Now just need to set up a tent for it to connect to.

I think you can find it in shops that service semi trucks, they actually do it on the truck for steer tires to get the ride as smooth as possible. Not sure if they can do it to wheels on drive axles.

Even those won't take care of an out of round tire though. A big problem with used/surplus tires is you never know where they are actually coming from. They might have been on a truck that was used off road at a training site and got driven around a couple times a week on dirt/gravel, or you...

yes, the base trucks are essentially identical. In the year I've owned mine it's been a 2 door pickup, 2 door troop carrier, 2 door and 4 door helmet hard top (tall version) and currently a 2 door BEOD, with a lot of switching back and forth for events and such. installing a hard top takes a...

is this right at startup, or after it has been running for a few minutes? I know for my truck the needle bounces the first minute or two due to the glow plugs pulsing, then after that it settles down.

oh, on the inside. My guess is it's the bracket for mounting a display for the vehicle commander as part of the Driver's Vision Enhancer system. Most likely one pin is supposed to be in the center hole, then the other is for either the down position or the up/stowed position of the monitor.

Separate the numbers a little 01365 ASSY 09006P1210 and it comes up as a bracket of some type for the marine corp. That's all I could find, but from looking at it it looks like some type of mount for a fold down assembly, probably some type of antenna mount. Don't suppose you have any...

So it sounds like you broke something. the most usual thing to break when you're having wheelspin and then hit the brakes (not saying you did) is one of the halfshafts, either the CV joint or the shaft itself. (once the wheel is spinning, that is a lot of weight for the shaft to deal with...

You are welcome. I don't actually know a huge amount about the military generators, but I make my living as a Generac Protector Series Technician, and work on plenty of home and commercial standby generators, so I tend to get asked about generators a lot.

okay, I did a couple edits to my earlier post to fix the bad information.

(did a few edits as people corrected me) part of this answer depends on what charger unit you are using. Then it depends on if the charger is 3 phase or single phase. If it's a single phase charger, going bigger than an MEP 003 or 803 won't do as much, because all the larger ones are 3 phase...

have a helper with you when you try to start it, have them read the voltage at the batteries when you turn the switch and when it's cranking. You should see a voltage drop when the glow plugs come on, and another when you go to crank it. (poor man's load tester) If it drops below 20 volts...

I wasn't trying too hard. I was bottomed out on the sloped picture, but it backed right out no problem. I went over come logs on the beach as well, only had one where I had to use BTM to get over it, and that wasn't even being locked into 4WD.

I was bored at the beach yesterday