[Fourlanders] It's alive, It's Alive, IT'S ALIVE!

[Brian McCarthy]

This email subject is brought to you in honor of Frankenmower.
Frankenmower, your churning, chopping, plate steel headed, grass
cutting friend.

The real news is my 15KW diesel generator. I successfully fired it up
this morning. Ran it for 5 or so minutes. It made AC and ran smoothly.
The failed brain box was not installed, but rather the fuel solenoid
was hard wired to a power switch and a jumper wire was used to
momentarily trigger the starter. In the cool Monday morning air of 66
degrees, it did not start on the first three attempts. I held the
jumper onto the pre-heater contacts for about 10-15 seconds,
momentarily jumpered the starter and it kicked right over.

Now I just need to top off or change fluids as appropriate. We can
plan on my big generator being there. The only reason I had not gotten
to this point earlier is that I would really rather have the "brain"
box in place and working as it has all of the engine instrumentation
in it. It will also kill the fuel solenoid if a parameter gets out of
bounds.

I will keep working on the "brain" box issue. I have identified an
alternate if this one proves unrepairable and too expensive via
Generac.

Thanks for all the supportive words, consultation and research from the group.

Brian
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