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  1. 4

    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    okay here we are end of July 2022 MEP-804 is running like a top!! I change the oil and filter every 200 hours or so, now we are at 1600 hours Why? Because our 20+ year old solar panels were doing basically nothing. I fixed all that! Finally found a good deal on some solar panels, 24ea Sunpower...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    Anyone have a thread where somebody installed auto generator start into a 804? I have my ags and looking forward to doing the install. Thanks!!
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    well explained! Thank you VERY much for the detailed description. Earlier in the thread I/we decided there is no way in heck to "easily" convert the 804b to single phase. So instead I took advice from this forum and ran with it, and installed a 3rd inverter, so we are now using all 3 phases...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    Allright we are up and running with all 3 phases hooked up! We now have three 120V power inverters charging battery banks To accomplish this we pulled a single 6ga wire through the existing conduit from genset to house, then we ran the same 6ga wire through the shop and over to our "new" 24V...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    allright guys here we are, 804b has been working perfectly all spring summer and fall We are at about 500 hours now on the meter, oil has been changed a few times, all is well She runs at about 40% of the rated load because we are still using two of the three "legs" However that is about to...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    I have not had any mice in the 804b as far as I can tell I did do the first oil change! 6 quarts of Mobil delvac 15W-40 and a Carquest filter at 247 hours now Genset runs awesome!! Like flawless every time..... the alternator is charging the two glass matts perfectly plans are in the works to...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    Allright you guys I finally had a chance to run the generator with the batteries fully charged This time of year we have plenty of sunshine we hardly need to use this thing at all 7 months of the year at first I was concerned because once again the ammeter pegged past 20+ amps and the circuit...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    all right well it took 3 days to get the generator run time needed to bring the batteries up to 100% The generator charges our battery bank in just a few hours and the sun has been out (we have also had snow and rain!) so not much generator time needed lately. Last night when I shut the 804b...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    804b is purring like a kitten the batteries are at 75% I will shut off when they reach 100% and tomorrow we will reset the CB and try this again! The charger says 7.8 hours to fully recover 24V AGM been running about 5 now......... Big learning curve on these things :) Thanks dudes
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    VERY GOOD ADVICE Thank you I will charge them to 100% with my new charger and then try again I am SURE that is it I believe you are probably correct!! batteries were at 22.5V when I installed the new alternator, well below 24V basically they were below 25% capacity and yes my dumbass expected...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    Thanks fellas Unfortunately for me it is one step forward and two steps back with this thing. The new alternator is in! AND Drum roll please.......................... NOT WORKING! So yeah seriously now we have a new issue. The new alternator installed is a 24V, 40 AMP unit Installed just...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    we are indeed committed to the 804b, I love this genset i will be getting 8 more battle born batteries ASAP then we will have 400 amp hours, with lifepo4 batteries 400ah is quite a bit since they have such a deep depth of discharge. 800ah would just be awesome but the cost will have to come...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    Greatful dead ..... I had some friends that were into them when I was younger I always lived near red rocks amphitheater in Colorado and when the dead would come through i know there was a large community of hippies that would clog up the works for weeks.... tent cities are not my kind of thing...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    Yes I do I have battery power at the batt+ terminal (of course) When running I have battery power at the voltage regulator feed wire. The ground wire also has a good strong connection to battery ground I will let you guys know what I find out Hoping for some sunshine otherwise we are burning...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    Thanks guys Will call some alternator places tomorrow and consider my options may just have to buy the $260 hitachi unit the last thing I want is to buy a new alternator install it only to find it is still not charging... I feel I have tested just about everything I can on the machine side so I...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    Well heck yeah, what model is it for? 804a or b? Is it 35amp? You are very kind, I am interested if it will work, we will be relying on this machine heavily so redundancy is my friend (spare parts)
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    Thank you I have been shopping for a bit for one now The one you posted is 12v db electrical Would not warranty an alternator I had from them that literally failed 3 days after 1 year warranty and this was a new unit not reman I was not happy w them so hesitant to go back I need at least 35a...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    Allright much progress made yesterday I cleaned all battery connections and cable connections inside the machine Installed the fully charged batteries Started the machine Was really worried as it was still not running correctly If I release the start switch to the run position the genset would...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    Thank you I found that same diagram last night way at the end of the -24 TM (373 pages!) So it looks like circuits 164d (w/bl) is the battery charge wire and 248a (WhT) powers the voltage regulator and the third wire 100r must be a case ground. What is the small wire that leaves e and is dashed...
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    MEP-804B - New to me, I have a few questions

    pics of the Hitachi 24V alt in question Hooked the house up to the backup gen today, so all is well there will give me time to mess w the 804b tomorrow I have the batteries out and will charge them over night start fresh In the meantime, here is the alternator appears factory has one wire...
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