HI guys,
We're moving slowly along, the containers have been moved to the new property and the sound proofing of the water cooled unit works extremely well, there is only a small humming noise at the boundary fence, which is fine for me, the exhaust smoke is a different matter, but we'll see. The first batch of bio has been made, the generator warmed up to 73 deg in the container, and I have just fitted 2 temperature controlled exhaust fans to keep it down in summer.
Since the water cooled unit is on the new property I purchased a 6.6kva second hand ABLE aircooled unit to back us up on a rainy day while we're still on the old property.
The unit was used on a service truck to power tools (drills and so on) I don't think it has been run to it's higher capacity.
Now here is the question, If I plug in the charger for the battery bank, the amps go up to about 10, which is about 2.4kw roughly, as soon as I turn on the water pump or other devices, the genie struggles and shuts down. I have changed the fuel filter but no difference. I have heard that a generator is the happiest around 75% of its max capacity.
Since this particular unit may only have run a few drills and probably idled along most of the time I guess its kind off clogged up.
Is there any way to 'de-clogg' it? I was thinking along the lines of using heating fans and slowly increase the load by increasing the temperature.
Any thoughts?
Thanks and have a great Friday evening!
Jens
We're moving slowly along, the containers have been moved to the new property and the sound proofing of the water cooled unit works extremely well, there is only a small humming noise at the boundary fence, which is fine for me, the exhaust smoke is a different matter, but we'll see. The first batch of bio has been made, the generator warmed up to 73 deg in the container, and I have just fitted 2 temperature controlled exhaust fans to keep it down in summer.
Since the water cooled unit is on the new property I purchased a 6.6kva second hand ABLE aircooled unit to back us up on a rainy day while we're still on the old property.
The unit was used on a service truck to power tools (drills and so on) I don't think it has been run to it's higher capacity.
Now here is the question, If I plug in the charger for the battery bank, the amps go up to about 10, which is about 2.4kw roughly, as soon as I turn on the water pump or other devices, the genie struggles and shuts down. I have changed the fuel filter but no difference. I have heard that a generator is the happiest around 75% of its max capacity.
Since this particular unit may only have run a few drills and probably idled along most of the time I guess its kind off clogged up.
Is there any way to 'de-clogg' it? I was thinking along the lines of using heating fans and slowly increase the load by increasing the temperature.
Any thoughts?
Thanks and have a great Friday evening!
Jens
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