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Re: "Adventure's" with my First Mamod Stationary Engine!
« on: September 27, 2021, 05:14:43 pm »
I have all ready run it on Steam, I filled the boiler with VERY hot water, then put (1) Wilesco WI tab in burn tray but laying flat....The engine willingly came to life after only about 1 minute of fire...but would not run the Dynamo with the "WI" tab laying "flat"....I just ran the engine "only" for that tab and noticed if I stopped the engine for 20 seconds (to build more steam)it would sort of try to power the Dynamo...I had lots of water left in boiler so I started (1) new "WI" tab, this time with the tab on edge like in photo in my first post...this makes the tab burn faster and hotter, now she will easily spin my Dynamo, but no light at the lamp bulb....I had planned to re- locate the bulb any way, so I will investigate if there is wire damage or a bad bulb.