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I know. Was just trying to go through all possibilities. When the wife is staring you down because you don’t have power you tend to try things even if you know better. Any idea what the sludge might be? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So my new issue is it shutting down with an over heat even with a light load. I have added coolant, tried to run it with both the doors closed and open. I removed the thermostat hoping to solve the problem but that didn't change anything. On a whim I decided to drain and refill the radiator...

Suggestion on how to tell?

Generator ran pretty solid for 6 hours last night with a full load. At one point it was shooting sparks out of the exhaust which I presum was carbon burning off. I had the battle switch turned on just to see if there might be some faults there. When I came down to shut it off, the coolant...

On a side note, the water is beautiful... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Gotcha. Last year I "modified" the fuel line to draw from an externa 30 gallon tank. The external tank float would not trigger the fill so I applied some island ingenuity by pulling the line from the tank and connecting it to the external tank. I then filled the internal tank with 5 gallons of...

Okay. The pump sounds like it does when I first turn it to prime. I’m going to change out the fuel filter again - my last one on the island. Let’s see what that will do. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No clue. We ran to the store and came back and it was off. No lights. Pump was running fast. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

AM/VM is set for single phase L3-L1. Ran good for about an hour and shut itself down. Primer pump was still going.

Okay. Got the AC going. Slowly adding more load. Right now no change in smoke color. Going to try to figure out what setting on the multimeter I need to view a load. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ammeter does not work. I'm going to check the wiring today.

I tried that but when I turned on just the AC (no other breakers) it was bogging down almost to the point of stopping. In the past I have been able to run the AC. Since we have some rain during the daylight I'll mess with it some. When the AC is off the housequickly gets over 85 degrees...

Now that I am thinking about it here is something strange. In the past we ran it with the AC and had no real issues but had to load shed. We couldn't run the water pump at the same time for instance. Now trying to only turn on the AC, it will bog down. With the AC off, it will run well...

Go figure... I need a load to clear the wet stacking and I need power run the house. I MUST have Air conditioning and I can't get the thing to spin up with that type of load right now.

It was 9pm so no way to see exhaust color. Good fuel. I can replace the filter if need be. It was initially spitting out all sorts of carbon. Would wetstacking cause such a loss? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A while back I was on after getting an 803a brought over to the Bahamas. Here we are almost 10 months later and power is mostly restored. On July 1 though BPL decided to swap out the larger power generator on the mainland so we have had intermittant power on the out island. This afternoon we...