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

[Jim Worsham]

Congratulations Brian!  Good work!  Now we have a generator with no brain.
What should we call that?

73
Jim, W4KXY

PS  I just had an idea, The Scarecrow.

-----Original Message-----
From: fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Brian McCarthy
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:38 AM
To: fourlanders at contesting.com
Subject: [Fourlanders] It's alive, It's Alive, IT'S ALIVE!

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
NX9O
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