tlavite
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Hi guys I am new to the forum but not new to generators. Generators have been a hobby of mine for quite some time. I recently acquired a nice running MEP018A 10KW generator in great shape with the manuals and everything. I got it for $1150 at a local auction I go to every week. It completely surprised me I walked in and saw it and started drooling
I got her home fired her up and have spent the last two weeks learning as much as I can about this genset. A few days after getting the generator my buddy came upon another one exactly the same but only 3 years older but less hours on it he picked it up for 700 bucks and I traded it to him for 4 smaller generators I had in my garage. I figured I would keep the other one on hand for spare parts should anything happen to my main one. I wired it to my house as an emergency backup generator and it runs the house like its nothing. Barely even loads the generator to 25%. My question to you guys is I would love to hear any information and anything you guys know about this generator. It seems a little hard to really find to much info online about it as far as I can tell. I do have the manuals and I've gone over them probably six times. I just like knowing as much as I can about the machines I own so any information or fun facts you guys have about these would be awesome.
They fired it up for me at the auction and it purred like a kitten. After I brought it home and fired it up a couple times and did some tests I stopped and took the time to wire it into my house. When it came time to test the setup I fired up the generator and noticed specks of fuel landing around my feet... turned out the original mechanical fuel pump had developed a leak. Is it possible to get a new diaphragm for it? Or is there something equivalent to this pump? Its not to big of a deal because that night I wired up a small electric fuel pump to the generator and it seems to run it just fine. I took a fuel cell my buddy gave me and pipped it in to the generator as an external fuel source. One thing I have noticed is this generator seems a little hard to get started but once it fires up it runs like a brand new top. Is that how allot of them were? I haven't had a chance to play with the other one I have yet but I will later this week. Also the previous owner converted this generator to 12V I have no clue why because now I am pretty sure the alternator on the generator does not charge the 12V battery now. I am considering switching it back to 24V but I have no clue what all the old owner did to the system to change it to 12V. I assume the panel has some usage from the batteries right? If so how could he have made the 12V work? The guy also added a separate start and stop system to the generator I haven't quite figured out why the original start stop which works for starting the generator but not killing it. Ahh I am sorry for rambling on guys my apologies. Let me know what you guys think of my system and any information is greatly welcomed thanks in advanced.
Tyler,
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They fired it up for me at the auction and it purred like a kitten. After I brought it home and fired it up a couple times and did some tests I stopped and took the time to wire it into my house. When it came time to test the setup I fired up the generator and noticed specks of fuel landing around my feet... turned out the original mechanical fuel pump had developed a leak. Is it possible to get a new diaphragm for it? Or is there something equivalent to this pump? Its not to big of a deal because that night I wired up a small electric fuel pump to the generator and it seems to run it just fine. I took a fuel cell my buddy gave me and pipped it in to the generator as an external fuel source. One thing I have noticed is this generator seems a little hard to get started but once it fires up it runs like a brand new top. Is that how allot of them were? I haven't had a chance to play with the other one I have yet but I will later this week. Also the previous owner converted this generator to 12V I have no clue why because now I am pretty sure the alternator on the generator does not charge the 12V battery now. I am considering switching it back to 24V but I have no clue what all the old owner did to the system to change it to 12V. I assume the panel has some usage from the batteries right? If so how could he have made the 12V work? The guy also added a separate start and stop system to the generator I haven't quite figured out why the original start stop which works for starting the generator but not killing it. Ahh I am sorry for rambling on guys my apologies. Let me know what you guys think of my system and any information is greatly welcomed thanks in advanced.
Tyler,
![DSC_0067.jpg DSC_0067.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/298/298545-c22f2e88d305cbf2cdc4a8a7e727cfef.jpg)
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![DSC_0064.jpg DSC_0064.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/298/298547-00e9d1d3b595cfb2c2758d9f007e1184.jpg)
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