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Just thought I would update this thread with results of today's sale at Ft Polk, LA, this is "Cyber Monday" Dec 2, 2013, the off season for generators here in the south, but we have had some unseasonably cold weather last week, so may have some winter storm prep going on. Today's batch included...

Perhaps, but at least they could have put a same limit range on the adjustment.

Yes, it is as stable as any other similar mechanically governed generator, why the military specified a manual adjustment on this I have no idea, their civilian cousins have the same type of governor that are set and forget. Personally I feel the manual speed control knob sticking out there is...

I suspect a lot of the problem is California where diesel seems to be considered EVIL

That is not bad, I saw a lone non-trailer mounted MEP-003a go for $3,500 yesterday on GL

To follow up on Derf with condition codes, it somewhat depends on the site, some seem better then others about using the correct condition codes, but in general I ignore them (although I will give a little weight to F7, and new). Here is my best personal example of a poorly reported condition...

Buzz254, As you know there are already several people buying, refurbishing and reselling these generators online, plus it seems many more that sell through more traditional offline methods. Pricing is often the problem, I was looking at the web site for one online reseller of "refurbished"...

Since I started this message thread over a year ago I have seen the prices on MEP-002 and MEP-003 generators on GL in my area just continue to rise. It is now rare to find an intact looking MEP-002 on GL in my area sell below about $800 and MEP-003's seem to run about $1,500 with occasional...

I just watched a GL auciton close at Ft. Polk on another the likely reset ultra-low hour MEP-002a at over an hour an fifteen minutes after closing time thanks to the 15 minute rule, selling price $1366 before fees. In the same auction a lot of 2 MEP-003'a sold for about $1,200 at about an hour...

It is not just the MEP's It is insane across the board I just saw a set of 10 year old low hour (200-400) Onan's diesel standby units (2 10kW and a 15kW sell on GL for around $3,000 - 3,500 before fees) EUC required. Last year I bought a fairly nice (all the bells and whistles, skid mount...

If your looking at GL, it is usually 10% over bid for auction fee, plus these are sold as EUC items, so there is your time filling out and submitting the EUC (say half an hour), plus another half hour or more making sure GL received the EUC, correcting the EUC for any little typo. Then if this...

For those of you that are curious about the sale I was following it ended with the MEP-002a's with a few hundred hours selling about $650 ($660 for the mismatched color ASK unit), the low hour MEP-002a's selling for $820-$1234 with most around $1050. The MEP-003a's were all low hour went for...

You should be able to add an electronic governor for $200-300 if you don't mind hunting ebay deals, it seems the 24 volt governors seem to sell for a lot less than the 12 volt ones on ebay, I guess it is supply and demand. I equipped the 125KW Onan here at work with one (actuator, controller...

I will give you that the hours do make them look attractive, while the majority of this lot is single digit hours, there are a few oddballs, with 500-950 hours, and their current bids are right there in line with the low hour units. Of course this could be due to bidders not paying attention to...

You may be right about buying when the very large lots come up, the problem is around here (within a reasonable days drive anyway, it seems all the large lots are always on the east coast, VA, PA, NY), the lots tend to be either the odd one off's or batches of 20-30, and it seems the 20-30 lots...

I just have to wonder where is the resell market for these units, the lots I am watching end today, and the MEP-003a's are already starting to top $2,000 ($2,200 once you add the fees), which might not be bad for a known running uint, but for an unknown it seems very high to me. It gets even...

I found the opposite to be true when I bought my MEP-701a, I was outbid on several occasions when generators were selling in larger lots. I won mine on a day where it was the only generator up for auction at the local GL location. Ike

I know we are always saying how shocked we are at the selling prices of these generators lately. After watching a GL auction bidding open, and bids go to over $500 for MEP-002's and over $1,200 MEP-003's across the board in the first few hours of bidding on a 4 day auction. I thought this was...