Your last generator Maintenance Run

[Blaszer]

Power went out on Sunday around 5pm when a very isolated thunderstorm rolled through and snapped trees left and right. The genset was just serviced that Thursday. It started right up. The initial ETA on power was that night... well it turned into a 38 hour power outage. The genset ran flawlessly for all 38 hours, and used about 70ish gallons of fuel.

 

[3930dave]

Just had to use my generator this morning the power went out last night about 11:30, thunderstorm with some pretty good winds. I figured when I woke up this morning about 5:30 it was time to get the freezer and refrigerator going. She started right up, I hadn't run it for about 6-7 months, I use stabil in the fuel tank. I have a sub panel for the house just for the generator it ran for about 30-45 mins. before the power came back on.

Healthy fuel and gen.... so of course the line power came back shortly after spin-up :laughing:

'Ol Murph has many variants.....

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

Power went out on Sunday around 5pm when a very isolated thunderstorm rolled through and snapped trees left and right. The genset was just serviced that Thursday. It started right up. The initial ETA on power was that night... well it turned into a 38 hour power outage. The genset ran flawlessly for all 38 hours, and used about 70ish gallons of fuel.

Lots of trees.... takes time to clear..... IIRC, that's a good-sized gen - not bad at less than 2 gal./hr.

Rgds, D.,

 

[BrokenTrack]

I have a 20 KW PTO generator, and I like it. It has more than enough power for my house.

Someday I would like to install a separate diesel engine for it, just so that when the power does go out, I do not have to tie up my tractor from other tasks. I got a Reefer Unit Izuzu engine kicking around that might work. That way I could hook it up to a 275 gallon oil tank. That would give me a month of back up power.

 

[3930dave]

I have a 20 KW PTO generator, and I like it. It has more than enough power for my house.

Someday I would like to install a separate diesel engine for it, just so that when the power does go out, I do not have to tie up my tractor from other tasks. I got a Reefer Unit Izuzu engine kicking around that might work. That way I could hook it up to a 275 gallon oil tank. That would give me a month of back up power.

Nice capacity. PTO only has a few minor drawbacks, and lots of benefits.

Not sure if that Izuzu would give you full output, but would free up the tractor and give you a useable portion of that 20's output.

Post pics pls if you do set that up :thumbsup:

Rgds, D.

 

[hr3]

A 4 ton heat pump can have a 100 amp starting load.

What about the new inverter style split units?? I have a 6 kw and when I turn on the AC it doesn't even give the gen. a bump. It's a 2.5 HP unit from Carrier..

 

[grsthegreat]

What about the new inverter style split units?? I have a 6 kw and when I turn on the AC it doesn't even give the gen. a bump. It's a 2.5 HP unit from Carrier..

Those mini splits use an inverter style startup, and only require a 20 amp , 240 volt circuit for the most part. They work great on a generator system.

 

[daugen]

serviced the little Champion 3100 inverter gen.
First I dug out the mud wasp work, for the third time, even under the factory cover.
Had run carb dry last time. Not doing that again...
Pulled ten times. Nothing. Pulled another five. Nothing. Sprayed a small amount of starter fluid in the intake area, before the filter,
and it started right up and ran perfectly. Ran a 1500 watt heater on it for about fifteen minutes, then changed oil.
Stuck on new label saying 10/30 Syn Aug 2019
Next time I'll change the plug, or rather inspect it and I'm sure it will be pretty clean.
We throw away so many spark plugs today for no reason, not like the old days
where your big buy from JC Whitney was a spark plug cleaner.

 

[RoyKing]

serviced the little Champion 3100 inverter gen.
First I dug out the mud wasp work, for the third time, even under the factory cover.
Had run carb dry last time. Not doing that again...
Pulled ten times. Nothing. Pulled another five. Nothing. Sprayed a small amount of starter fluid in the intake area, before the filter,
and it started right up and ran perfectly. Ran a 1500 watt heater on it for about fifteen minutes, then changed oil.
Stuck on new label saying 10/30 Syn Aug 2019
Next time I'll change the plug, or rather inspect it and I'm sure it will be pretty clean.
We throw away so many spark plugs today for no reason, not like the old days
where your big buy from JC Whitney was a spark plug cleaner.

You need to run it dry if it is going to sit for very long, keep a can of starter fluid, why are you changing plugs? At most a little fine sand paper, put it in a large garbage bag tied shut.

 

[RoyKing]

Power went out on Sunday around 5pm when a very isolated thunderstorm rolled through and snapped trees left and right. The genset was just serviced that Thursday. It started right up. The initial ETA on power was that night... well it turned into a 38 hour power outage. The genset ran flawlessly for all 38 hours, and used about 70ish gallons of fuel.

Wow that's lot of fuel how big is that unit, my 10k eats less gallon a hour, what is your load