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Yes my extra present to myself. With the on car balancer & the gen set it is like Christmas around here.

Last year we were flooded in for 5 days, with no power, & the local service station ran out of petrol, & gas to refill bar b que gas cylinders. My 2.5 KVA gen set would not start the fridge/freezer making things a bit unpleasant. I decided to kill 2 birds with the one stone.

It is an 8KVA continuous diesel set in a sound reducing box. It even has remote stop start, so should run most of the house, if not all at once, & the balancer.

It is 170Kg, so after fitting it's wheels, I towed it down to the shed behind the ride on mower. It must have looked hilarious. They are shipped dry, & it took a couple of hours to get it bleed & running properly.

Just a few days, & I should be ready to start balancing.

Hasbeen

It sounds like you got a more powerful version of the one I have it's 6.5kva has the remote & sound reducing box etc.
The only trouble I've had is with the fuel filter and the stareting battery.
The filter is an el-cheapo inline thing.
I must've got some fuel with a bit of water in it, and it clogged pretty damned quick!
I replaced it with a proper bowl type fuel filter set up so now if there is any water in the fuel it can be separated and drained off before it clogs the filter.

And the replaced the rubbish OME battery with the biggest one that I could fit into the allotted space.

Sorted! [:D]

I'll take a happy-snap tomorrow if I can bloody well remember.


"Keep calm, relax, focus on the problem & PULL THE BLOODY TRIGGER"

80'Triumph TR7, 73'Land Rover (Ford 351. V8),
'89 Ford Fairlane
'98 MG-F, 69'Ford F250.
76' Ford F100

Here ya go Hasbeen, here's the pix of the fuel filter modification.



"Keep calm, relax, focus on the problem & PULL THE BLOODY TRIGGER"

80'Triumph TR7, 73'Land Rover (Ford 351. V8),
'89 Ford Fairlane
'98 MG-F, 69'Ford F250.
76' Ford F100

Yep, that looks like the one.

I'm told the army have the same box, with what looks like the same engine, but only putting out 4 or 5 KVA. They probably want 24/7 reliable running in desert climates.

If the clowns who run such things in the army don't wreck them, it is a pretty good recommendation.

Hasbeen

There are a few folks here in UK who would have loved that genset at Christmas. There were quite a lot who had no power for 4-5 days during Christmas after winds and floods took out the power. This was in commuter land Surrey and Kent so they don't expect to have to rough it and got a bit heated when the Prime Minister made the mistake of calling in for a photo opportunity. The power companies didn't have enough bodies available to get the system back working until after Christmas.

Apparently you cannot survive if your wi-fi goes off.

Russ

1980 TR7 Sprint DHC
Dursley
UK

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