That generator with the two exhaust pipes is the most horrible thing ever invented! It is an air-cooled Onan diesel. The only thing good about it is that it burns diesel. But all the other benefits of diesel motor it does not have. Those things were so loud and would rattle all of the sheet metal off of it. Would develop stress cracks. All of the sheet metal was like consumable Parts! LOL
Our town has four gen sets used for peak hours. They're driven by locomotive engines. Recently, a local saw mill lost power for a week. The CAT dealer brought in 2 generators mounted on semi trailers to power the mill. Quite fascinating
The two guys dumping a can of ether into the big green genset are WHY they need to dump a can of ether into it to get it to started. They've destroyed the rings...no compression.
Sad thing is that engines that get ether squirted into them for starting purposes actually get addicted to it. Doesnt do the internals any good. Pretty sure that 6LD Dorman that copped the spray could be made to start better without it.
Welcome to the future (or present) state of charging EVs! The paint stripper heat gun was the best method I've found in 40 years. It can heat the entire intake tract and doesn't burn up oxygen like propane torches. Modern "top end lubricant" spray can " starting fluid", which is almost junk and is inherently dangerous because it doesn't vaporise like real ether. It puddles in turbos and intake tracts, and after the rpm comes up, it is drawn in. I've seen a few big motors go to 4k+ rpm! A good 6v-71 Detroit i recently purchased regularly used most of the batteries and 2 cans of regular government mandated to prevent some idiot huffing it, "starting fluid" applied with the air cleaner out in 40deg weather. The junk was running out the airbox drains! Sludge from previous repeated use was horrible, and required removal of airbx covers to clean since it had plugged one drain allowing crap up into the ports! . An old "outdated, obsolete" system we installed that uses screw on cans of REAL ether takes just 2cc's at 20 deg! One shot pre crank and one after start for sub zero. No rattles. No waste.
Where I work we have a huge diesel generator as back up for if the power goes out and it actually has an exhaust stack. The generator is on the lower car park and the stack is connected to the wall and rises above the upper one. Last time it was fired up it coated a load of cars on the upper level with black soot, it was very funny.
Those generators are very loud too. I've seen them start up at the hospital before and one other place too. They were testing them to make sure they'll start up and work properly when needed. Very loud!!!
The biggest site I worked on was in Nairobi in 2000 there where 30 CAT gen sets plus 5 of our 1.5 mega watt Deutz v16 in iso 45 foot containers I flew in to Nairobi with 2 of then inside a Antonov 150 as our 5 where needed to be online by Christmas of the same year otherwise the contractor was going to have to pay a huge penalty.
Years ago I used ether to try and start my truck during a brutal cold spell,sprayed so much into the engine it thinned out the oil,never occurred to me to drain the oil and put new oil in the motor,wound up ruining the engine.
Best to not load the air filter open it up shoot just a little right into the air intake that will start them I doubt the ether is what caused the damage it evaporates before it can thin the oil I’ve worked a lot in the Arctic in the oilfield . Delt with a lot of engines on trucks gensets and pumps we have drained The oil out of them kept it hot and poured it in just before starting works wonders and stuck a torch in intakes too pre heated the air
@@JD-zc8pu we would drain the engine oil keep it warm by the stove then when we needed it sit it on the stove get it warmer pour it in the engine if it was really cold along with the coolant they would start pretty easy we also used anti gel in the fuel system and kept the batteries indoors too on unused equipment dealing with -40 temps was quite a adventure.
Better to disconnect the air in take at the engine shoot a little ether into it that way you do not load the filter with it and cause a momentary run away with cold oil and starve every thing in that engine I liked the guy with the heat gun on that small set that’s thinking !
I was waiting for it to light up and have a short runaway I always disconnected at the intake and just have a little shot that would usually wake them up and hold the governor closed so it did not rev up at first let a little oil get in there
@enceladus23 STOP SPREADING RUMPRS DUDE, YOU'RE NOT A.S.E, STOP. Diesel engines do not get addicted stop you're so full of bullshit STOP. Addiction? Really dude. Engine's aren't alive, you are a FOOL.
Esto se soluciona precalentando el agua enfriamiento en lugares donde hace mucho frío y el motor o arrancar perfectamente Debido a que los motores turbo alimentado sobre todo tienen una relación de compresión mucho más baja Es normal que le cuesta arrancar y tarda más que los motores aspirados cuya relación de compresión es mucho mayor Los motores turbo alimentados tiene una relación de compresión aproximada de 13 av15:1 y los clásicos motores de inyección directa aspirados tiene una relación de compresión de 17 a 1 o mayor al tener mayor relación de compresión el aire cuando llega al punto muerto superior está mucho más caliente Qué es su equivalente turboalimentado
Sometimes you just have to get things started without a backup plan....but break cleaner or even WD-40 is less volatile and less hazardous on diesel...but you probably know this.
