Posted by gwstang on May 14, 2011 at 13:19:15 from (71.42.172.242):
Hi fellows, I do have an old '52 Ford 8n so this is slightly tractor related. If some of you live closer to me, then you would know about the F4 tornado that hit my particular area in Eclectic, Al. Messed up a lot of houses, mine included, and sadly killed some folks. We have a small 76 acre place here, very rural so we are very self reliant most of the time. Tore half of my roof off and blew up a couple of smaller buildings here on my place. Put a lot of timber on the ground in the creek bottom, it was bad. Well, I had to use the generator the next day as we did not have power for 4 days or so. It's an 8 hp with a briggs motor on it. I had an elect. shop check it several years ago (maybe 7 or so) and they put new brushes in it and gave me a new set and showed me how to do it the next time. It wasn't putting out any power is why it was worked on that time.
Flash forward to a couple of weeks ago after the tornado hit. The generator cranked okay after some fresh gas and ran just fine. Except...the power level was low. It would not run my side by side ref/freezer, but would run the small chest freeze on the back porch (deer meat and such). It would barely run a very small fan in the bedroom and maybe a light. About 16 years or so when Hurricane Opal went thru here, it would run a dang window unit ac and a tv and a couple of lamps...so whats up withe the power on this thing. It is putting about 106 volts ac out now, where a long time ago it would put out 115-120 Volts Is there some way to turn the power up on this a little? It cranks and runs wide open all the time so there is no adjustment to the engine to make it run faster....lol. Trying to avoid another trip to the rapir shop and $70. it would be nice if it was something simple...never is though...lol. Thanks, Gary
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