[Vwdiesel] Chinese diesel gensets?

[Val Christian]

I have two chinese diesel generators, and could share my experiences with
you in a telephone conversation.  If others would like, I can get a 
teleconference number, and they can call in.  Call it a VW diesel 
splinter conference.

Val


> 
> Little VW-D content here, please skip if you're not into diesel gensets... ;-)
> 
> I know there is a wealth of diesel experience here, and quite a bit of it 
> related to diesel gensets, so I have a question about them relating to my 
> workplace. For the past 5 years or so, our campus server room has had 
> backup power provided by a 250kW Cat generator. It was great during many 
> long winter outages, but recently, reliability is crap, ie: it rarely goes more 
> than 4 hours without the voltage going haywire and blowing equipment. The 
> guys in charge of it are ok with say 95% uptime, but we need 99.999% or 
> better. This past weekend was another example - a technician spent a 
> whole day servicing the unit before a scheduled two day outage, and the VR 
> died 3.5 hrs into the outage! I'd say find a new tech, but it's not my job. 
> 
> So... I am looking at a 30kW unit dedicated to keeping our critical data 
> systems running, often for 2-3 days during the winter - batteries are 
> expensive, so we only have about 40 minutes worth to handle transfer time 
> and emergency shutdowns if the genset fails (I'd rather avoid this!). I can get 
> a Chinese made 30kW diesel for about $6-7K from a few ebay vendors, and 
> they appear to use Cummins 4 cyl clones (4BT?). Are these any good? 
> What other options are known for reliability in this size? Realistically, we'd 
> probably only use it about 100-200 hrs per year, but would test it monthly 
> (not currently done with the big unit), and probably draw fuel from a very 
> large boiler fuel tank to always have fresh fuel on tap.
> 
> Sorry for the off-topic post; please feel free to reply off list...
> 
> Thanks :-)
> Shawn Wright
> http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels
> '88 Westy 1.6TD 5 speed
> '85 Jetta Diesel 1.6NA
> 
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