Author archives: Bad Amish

WIKIPEDIA: The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV; colloquial: Humvee) is a family of light, four-wheel drive military trucks and utility vehicles produced by AM General. Coming soon.

The 80 Amp circuit breaker on our MEP-1050 was defective and would not stay in the “On” position so it needed to be replaced.We found the part with a reasonable price at Powerwerx – https://powerwerx.com/ – for $54.99 plus around $10.00 for 2 business day shipping. The Powerwerx SKU number…

Our MEP-1050 generator came with two Optima red top AGM batteries, one of which was marked bad. The good battery had about 8 volts in it and the bad battery had 3-4 volts. These Optima batteries sell for $300 – $374 each depending on where you look so I searched…

This is the beginning of our MEP-1050 generator project. We’re going to try and document our troubleshooting any issues we find and the repairs that were needed here in a series of posts. The MEP-1050 is a 15 kW military generator we purchased off a government surplus company. How and…