Hello all,
So I got to play with my mep-003a generator this evening for several hours as we just had a pretty good electrical storm come through and knock out power. Hooked it up, brought the house online and it ran great for about an hour. Genset shut off, and upon investigating, found the dc breaker tripped, and secondary pump to be very warm to the touch and its emf filter hot. Since I wanted to get it back online asap, I just unplugged the power to the pump and fired the genset back up running on only the primary pump. I was at 65% load with no noticeable change in operation and the genset purred along like a well oiled sewing machine. A little while later, power came back on so I shut it down and called it a night. Given that, what are the consequences of running on only one pump versus two? Is it more of a redundancy thing or would I see degradation in performance with a higher load than I was running? Has anyone ever investigated it in more depth?
(I know about the emf filters shorting out which is what I think happened here, but since it is still raining pretty hard, I did not want to mess with it more than I had to at that moment)
Z
So I got to play with my mep-003a generator this evening for several hours as we just had a pretty good electrical storm come through and knock out power. Hooked it up, brought the house online and it ran great for about an hour. Genset shut off, and upon investigating, found the dc breaker tripped, and secondary pump to be very warm to the touch and its emf filter hot. Since I wanted to get it back online asap, I just unplugged the power to the pump and fired the genset back up running on only the primary pump. I was at 65% load with no noticeable change in operation and the genset purred along like a well oiled sewing machine. A little while later, power came back on so I shut it down and called it a night. Given that, what are the consequences of running on only one pump versus two? Is it more of a redundancy thing or would I see degradation in performance with a higher load than I was running? Has anyone ever investigated it in more depth?
(I know about the emf filters shorting out which is what I think happened here, but since it is still raining pretty hard, I did not want to mess with it more than I had to at that moment)
Z