Saturday, May 16, 2009

The Generator is Running

Boring car stuff...

Mr. Len and I went with a couple Haitian workers to the camp/beach house to work on the generator. I took the end case off and found that a spring got disconnected because the mechanism to limit the travel of the throttle was bypassed which caused the spring to go beyond its normal range. Once I put it back together, it started up on the first try (it's a hand-crank start generator). The generator end needs some work because the voltage isn't being send out correctly at the correct hertz (60Hz).

Mr. Len headed up there today with a couple Haitian workers because we got the manuals (on CD) yesterday that I ordered a couple weeks ago when we arrived back. He's going to see if he can get the generator end working correctly.

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