Hello - new MEP-803a owner here

[pstansel74]

Success! The breaker was flipped, I reset it and it worked no problem. I am waiting on the parts to load it up should have them by Tuesday. Really excited to see it fully run.

I got a replacement exhaust cover from LitD last week and am having a little trouble figuring out how it goes. See the pics, but could the bracket be bent or something?

 

[Light in the Dark]

That bracket has been bent up, which is the most likely cause of the flap going missing. The two tangs on the cover side, should be pretty much level with the mounting flange with the (2) hex screws.

 

[pstansel74]

Thanks I will look to bend them back

 

[Guyfang]

Remember, "One step at a time."

 

[pstansel74]

I cranked it and ran for 30 min or so with about 50% power. I need to get an additional heater to crank to full and benchmark for at least 4 hours. I am noticing some peculiarities with the unit... Things like every once in a while it won't make any effort to crank. I turn it all the way off and back on and it fires right up. I also had it die one time with a no fuel light when 1/4 of the tank was full. So I have to dig into those. I also need to get it to it's permanent home and wired in fully.

Oh and I bent the cover back down

 

[CallMeColt]

I cranked it and ran for 30 min or so with about 50% power. I need to get an additional heater to crank to full and benchmark for at least 4 hours. I am noticing some peculiarities with the unit... Things like every once in a while it won't make any effort to crank. I turn it all the way off and back on and it fires right up. I also had it die one time with a no fuel light when 1/4 of the tank was full. So I have to dig into those. I also need to get it to it's permanent home and wired in fully.

Oh and I bent the cover back down

Sounds like a dirty contact somewhere with the starting issue, or sticky relay.

The double float switch may be bad or out of place, causing the false low fuel shut down if you indeed have 1/4 tank.

 

[Guyfang]

I cranked it and ran for 30 min or so with about 50% power. I need to get an additional heater to crank to full and benchmark for at least 4 hours. I am noticing some peculiarities with the unit... Things like every once in a while it won't make any effort to crank. I turn it all the way off and back on and it fires right up. I also had it die one time with a no fuel light when 1/4 of the tank was full. So I have to dig into those. I also need to get it to it's permanent home and wired in fully.

Oh and I bent the cover back down


Take a picture of the S1, the back side, in the control cube. lets see what you have for an S1. This often, when it started to go bad, showed this failure. There are three types.

If you continue to have the low fuel problem, say something. There are more that a few reasons this can happen.

 

[pstansel74]

Ok, will get it tomorrow. I don't love that it might go bad! I will say something if the fuel problem continues, it only happened once.

 

[pstansel74]

Here is the back side of S1. In messing around today it did it again

 

[Guyfang]

That's the Mark 2 version. Better than the Mark 1, but still prone to failing. I can not say for sure its bad. But its the kind of failure that the first two versions displayed. Did you wiggle all the wires? Check that the wires are tight in the S1? The next time it happens, hold the S1 in the start position, open the control cube and move the wires/switch. See what happens. The Mark 3 switch is nuke proof.

 

[pstansel74]

Ok I will. Are they easily obtainable if I need to switch?

 

[Guyfang]

Part #: 75902LV
NSN: 5930-01-531-2976

Start a parts wanted thread or look in the net. I live in Germany. Shipping would be a killer.

 

[pstansel74]

Is that part # automatically the gen3 or do I need to specify?

 

[Guyfang]

Its the right number for the Mark 3. Its round, metal and bomb proof.

 

[pstansel74]

Awesome, thanks for the help.