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From what I have seen so far, aside from the rocker arm failing, I can find no cause as to why the valve kissed the top of the piston. Everything points to the broken rocker arm as the culprit.
I'm thinking that the pushrod/piston/valve is the effect of something as yet undiagnosed, and not...
I've been thinking....
Let's change units of measure for a moment.
We have a MEP803, nominally a 10kW generator.
The military underrates them. Typically they'll happily make 120%...
You have 20,000 watts (labeled) of load. The generator is pushed right at the 60% mark. Without fiddling...
Interesting. I've never calculated it that way. (Obviously I was "missing something")
I'm coming at the generator stuff from a different perspective. I learned electricity as an offshoot of welding. I've only used Ohms for calculating the current carrying capacity of cables.
For a field...
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