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[Geoff Weeks]

Few odds and ends cleared up. Dumped the 10w-30 "break in" oil I had in it. Had it run for 8 hr before changing to 5w-40 Rotella, and am seeing 8-10 psi increase. Still not as much as I'd like in the hot weather, but as good as my tractor with the same engine in the same conditions. 

I think if I was going to run continuous in the heat, I'd add an oil cooler.

 Next problem was when I loaded it up to max, the RPM's dropped too much. Found that when they monkeyed with the gov springs, they must have lost speed regulation (went from 2 spring to one, and increase the tension on that one). Since I went back to the stock 2 spring set up, I noticed that at max load I couldn't even see the exhaust. Opened up the max fuel setting on the pump, and now it will hold speed beyond what the gen head can produce (output limited by gen head capacity not engine power, like it was) . A little smoke when you dump more load on the gen head than it can make, but clears once the engine speed settles in at that load. Don't want to do that often, but to set up the pump, you have to push to the limit(s).

Next up is fitting an autotransformer, so any load placed on the head up to full 6Kw can be carried on one leg or balanced on the two or anything in between.

[mowerman]

Excellent progress is always exciting thanks for that