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That switch kills the governor to protect the engine.
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That's part of what made me suspicious. I have one of Kloppk's governor control modules - I tried swapping that in - and it still didn't fix the issue. Then I checked the output lugs - and I could not get the thing to output any power. At that point I started figuring there has to be something else wrong with this thing.That switch kills the governor to protect the engine.
The first clue I had was that the switch itself was seeping oil pretty good when the engine was running. I took it out - cleaned up the threads - very carefully put some pipe tape on the (didn't want any getting into the engine) - and then reinstalled it.Mine had the same symptoms. It started and ran fine and then all of a sudden didn't start up and run normally. If the switch goes out it will keep it at very low rpms.
Mine looked brand new also. Both of the MEP-831's I have went thru the reset - and had ~ 2 hours on the hour meter. The switch itself looked brand new (the label was nice and clean) - but it was seeping oil at a pretty good clip. In my case I think what was wrong was the switch itself was somehow fubar'ed inside and was leaking oil - and whatever was fubar'ed was also causing it to read incorrectly.Mine looked brand new. I bought a pair of 831s that were rebuilt and had 2 hours each on them. One worked perfect and the other worked for a couple times and then wouldn't work. Researching it there seemed to be a lot of trouble with them on these units. I bought an extra, but if that one goes out I will be looking at jumping the switch and discarding it.