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Today around 5pm a tree came down on the main road that took out the power line and damaged a couple of poles. Decided to pull out one of the MEP1030s to see how they work in real life. They worked great on the load bank.
about an hour in and the generstor kicked off. Looked at the screen and it shutdown on overheat. the belt broke. Ok, back to ole reliable MEP803. Ran for a few hours longer and the update was not good. Power won’t be back anytime soon. I didn’t want to run the 803 with no real load all night so I went over and got the other 1030 that i use for the off grid property. I checked the belt first and it looked to be ok. It’s out purring away in the yard now.
Tomorrow I will if I can get a couple belts locally. Don’t want to be left wanting over a simple,thing.
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about an hour in and the generstor kicked off. Looked at the screen and it shutdown on overheat. the belt broke. Ok, back to ole reliable MEP803. Ran for a few hours longer and the update was not good. Power won’t be back anytime soon. I didn’t want to run the 803 with no real load all night so I went over and got the other 1030 that i use for the off grid property. I checked the belt first and it looked to be ok. It’s out purring away in the yard now.
Tomorrow I will if I can get a couple belts locally. Don’t want to be left wanting over a simple,thing.
![2024-08-15 18.52.59 (large).jpeg 2024-08-15 18.52.59 (large).jpeg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/685/685090-43456f03be06fdf173c497c1c0aff937.jpg)
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