diesel for generator

[Boeing]

I was wondering about the guys that bought the Aurora Diesel Generators......how are the machines doing and how many hours are on them?
I see another outfit on E-bay; GT POWER, advertising diesel gens, also specifing AUTO diesel. They say that off-road will gum up injectors and filters....???? Is this real or BS?
Thanks, looking to buy SOON.
Rob

 

[JB4310]

I was wondering about the guys that bought the Aurora Diesel Generators......how are the machines doing and how many hours are on them?
I see another outfit on E-bay; GT POWER, advertising diesel gens, also specifing AUTO diesel. They say that off-road will gum up injectors and filters....???? Is this real or BS?
Thanks, looking to buy SOON.
Rob

There are a bunch of Chinese diesels out there, you have to shop around, I see some where middle men type small "dealers are selling them for much more than they are worth IMO. Especially on Craigslist, these guys think they have gold to sell trying to make a thousand profit on each.

The price is what is so attractive, compared to domestic or Japanese or euro unit, the price would be 2-3 times as much.
I have no first hand experience with them, but I was at an industrial tool rental place and they had a bunch of them in the rental fleet. Good size 5-8 kw units in sound/weather enclosures, they actually looked real nice.
They told me they had not had any serious trouble with them, and they were cheap enough that they weren't worried about taking a chance on the no name gennys.

JB

 

[DieselSJ]

I was wondering about the guys that bought the Aurora Diesel Generators......how are the machines doing and how many hours are on them?
I see another outfit on E-bay; GT POWER, advertising diesel gens, also specifing AUTO diesel. They say that off-road will gum up injectors and filters....???? Is this real or BS?
Thanks, looking to buy SOON.
Rob

The only difference between "auto" and "off-road" diesel is the dye. There is no reason why off-road diesel would gum the injectors.

 

[sw03]

The only difference between "auto" and "off-road" diesel is the dye. There is no reason why off-road diesel would gum the injectors.

do not forget the increase in taxes on the "on road"...LOL

 

[Boeing]

The Aurora says it has a catalic (sp?) converter in the exhaust that will get fouled with off-road. maybe, maybe not.....I was wondering if I could REMOVE that piece of wonderment and it would NEVER get fouled
Thoughts?

 

[dex3361]

I was wondering about the guys that bought the Aurora Diesel Generators......how are the machines doing and how many hours are on them?
I see another outfit on E-bay; GT POWER, advertising diesel gens, also specifing AUTO diesel. They say that off-road will gum up injectors and filters....???? Is this real or BS?
Thanks, looking to buy SOON.
Rob

I have run my Aurora recently about 18 hours for a total of about 50 hours and I am still impressed with the fuel consumption of the little unit. I guess when I have a couple thousand hours on it I can say it has been a good unit. No trouble so far though.

 

[Coyote machine]

Why must everyone mess with the way things are designed to run properly?!
Run it with the equipment that's on it and off road diesel. The ONLY difference is the dye to make it for OFF Road use. That way if someone uses it on road and isn't paying the taxes they get nailed.
Catalytic, for future reference.

 

[Boeing]

Thanks for the rply AND the spelling lesson :laughing:
The reason I keep asking about the fuels and the cat-a-lit-tick perverter is that Aurora says that if warranty repair is required they can see in the perverter IF off road diesel was used....and decline warranty repair.
I agree (to my limited knowledge) that off road is the same fuel.
Thanks again.

 

[Coyote machine]

Thanks for the rply AND the spelling lesson :laughing:
The reason I keep asking about the fuels and the cat-a-lit-tick perverter is that Aurora says that if warranty repair is required they can see in the perverter IF off road diesel was used....and decline warranty repair.
I agree (to my limited knowledge) that off road is the same fuel.
Thanks again.

Somewhere, possibly on the first page of this thread a guy states that the dye used damages the 'cats' on the most recent gennys and that is why Aurora says off road can't be used.
Who knows- if they want to they could deny warranty repair.
Ball in your court.

 

[whiskywizard]

Which engine are we talking about in the Aurora generators?

If it's the 400 series Perkins, don't worry about using off-road fuel. That's what Perkins expects you to use.

That engine is sold into ag and industrial service all the time, where it sees off-road fuel exclusively. It even permits up to 20% biodiesel.

To void a warranty claim, Aurora would have to do 2 things:

1. physically cut open the catalytic converter to inspect it
2. prove that the fuel used (also used in a bazillion other similar engines) was the cause of the specific failure in question.