[Milsurplus] Re: Generators...

[Joe Foley]

> Then there was another one I had which was a 4
> cylinder gasoline 
> engine with a recoil starter on the generator end
> and an impulse 
> mag. Used positive rotation valves and ran at a
> steady 3600 RPM. 
> It was a real gas hog. Put out, via a frame mounted
> switch, any of 4 
> voltage/phase/currents at 5 KW. 110 VAC single
> phase, 110VAC 3 
> phase, 220 vac single phase and 208 vac 3 phase.
> 
> It was very reliable, although somewhat hard
> starting, and, as I said 
> above a TERRIBLE gas hog at 3600 RPM. One Field Day
> when we 
> used both it and the PU-286-G (1800 RPM), over the
> same period 
> of time, and nearly identical loads, the PU-286-G
> used 1/4 as much 
> fuel as the "hot-rod", 5 gallons to 20 gallons.
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That sounds like my MEP-017A!  Especially the gas hog
part.

Joe

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