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    Parallel operation of MEP-002A or MEP-003A, with video

    Don't even try it with 2 different engines. Genheads have to be identical and locked together. As I said follow Sewerzuk's post 43 to align rotor and stator on single shaft. Each VR keeps it's genhead at 120.
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    Parallel operation of MEP-002A or MEP-003A, with video

    Since your genheads are single phase, if you can configure the genheads for proper voltage, might consider following proceedures in post 43, and connecting them in SERIES!! No circulating currents, no chance of overloading one head if other develops a problem.
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    Parallel operation of MEP-002A or MEP-003A, with video

    For Vietnam, we put a lot of ships that were mothballed at the end of WWII back into service. I was on a Victory. When in port, we needed both alternators to unload cargo. We did not have a syncroscope, and paralleled with lightbulb, exactly as Sewerzuk did. The incoming alternator has to be...
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