[MRCA] MEP-015 Generator

[Christopher Bowne]

Good luck on the field expedient jury rig Ray.  Generators are a lot simpler than most of the electronics we deal with in the radios.  

While we are on the subject of mil generators, does anyone have any, or know where I can get a spare magneto, points, and breaker point cap for my little PE-162A genny/mosquito repelling oil fogger so I can run it again with my Angry 9?  It won't start, and appears to have no spark.  Suspect either a shorted breaker point cap or bad magneto coil.  The former should be an easy fix, the thing will likely run without it for diagnostics.

73 de AJ1G




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 From: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
To: "Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net" <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; "mrca at mailman.qth.net" <mrca at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 9:17 PM
Subject: [MRCA] MEP-015 Generator
 



I know it’s not a radio but being most people on these reflectors have a broad area of interest thought I would try looking here first. Back in the seventies when I was a little Novice our local radios club use to use this ugly huge one cylinder WW2 AC generator, huge noisy never kept regulation and the like. Being that I was only a Novice and of no use for voice QSO I was usually relegated to gassing up the generator. One year about 1978 someone from the club borrowed a couple MEP-15A 1.5 kW generators and when I saw them the sight of their two cylinders, front mounted volt and frequency meters and OD green carrying cage deeply impressed me, so much so that I always wanted one. Over the years I have seen many on sale at Government Liquidators, local auctions at DRMO outlets and at Ham fest and Military meets but never wanted one so bad that I would lay down the two or three hundred dollars they are always selling for.  Sometimes if you wait long
 enough things will come to you, and that’s what happened at Gilbert this last weekend. For $100 I was the proud owner of my very own MEP-015A generator. I was told that it did not make any power but ran good. So when I got it home and unloaded, cleaned up and filled with gas I started it and it dose run great but makes no AC, after downloading the manual and spending several minutes diagnosing it have discovered that one of the windings is open in the voltage regulator it has a part number of P/N JHP114-55 and was manufactured by the Hollingsworth company, with a federal stock number of 6110-903-4768 so if anyone has any idea where something like this can be found please let me know. If that don’t work think I cobble together something so I can manually control the field and regulate voltage that way.

Ray F
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