MAX-24-Dean
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Looks like a Cummins to me?
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ultrarunner
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Its a Onan Genset with a turbo Cummins Diesel.
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Overkill capacity for home or even farm use I'd say. Actually you could use it for prime power so long as you could afford to fuel it. The one I own is 27KW and in reality it's too large but when I bought it, I wanted redundant amperage, just in case.
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Prime is 125 rated…
The cost difference was not much to go larger at the time and I figured my base load of 40% of 125 keeps me in the ballpark.
Typically, the belly tank would hold a lot more than the 180 gallons it takes to fill the required double containment tank.
Filling to full overfills past the vent so to be safe full is 7/8 of tank.
Just paid the June electric for the center… $24k at .2921 per kW.
100 gallons diesel just shy of $600 and the $600 did not include delivery.
Annual permit which had been zero cost is now $800 for 16 hours annual run time of which 2 hours during power outage…
A few years back during rolling and power safe outages had 40 hours run time for power outages…
The cost difference was not much to go larger at the time and I figured my base load of 40% of 125 keeps me in the ballpark.
Typically, the belly tank would hold a lot more than the 180 gallons it takes to fill the required double containment tank.
Filling to full overfills past the vent so to be safe full is 7/8 of tank.
Just paid the June electric for the center… $24k at .2921 per kW.
100 gallons diesel just shy of $600 and the $600 did not include delivery.
Annual permit which had been zero cost is now $800 for 16 hours annual run time of which 2 hours during power outage…
A few years back during rolling and power safe outages had 40 hours run time for power outages…
I'm sure the dealer would prefer to sell New. Drives me wild (one defect, disabling an otherwise excellent machine), but need to remind myself I live in a world where people line up every 4.2 months to buy a new iphone, so they can post online about how green they are.....).
I'd hate to think what that new equivalent gen would be, landed in CAD.
Time, a few rusty fasteners, choice words..... I'm sure that JD Set will look great rocking it's new Al housing....
Please post at least a few pics, during the Overhaul.
Thanks, Rgds, D.
A ur retirement project....
..... seems you already keep many neighbours running during griid-down, that would be a New Challenge !
Rgds, D.
You can read accounts of 3rd World medical staff trying to run facilities w/o power..... might be closer than we think.....
I like Data.... but don't have the time to run this to ground......
Wave a magic-wand (3930 wins major lottery), here's what I'd do:
By geography, I'd put up a 30 year graph of Today's Dollar costs for:
Electricity
Diesel
Gasoline
Natgas
Propane
All In/ Final End-User Cost.
Then, for the jurisdictions where it is now Legal, I'll overlay the cost for Weed (MJ).
I think that would be an interesting graph.....
Rgds, D.
CloverKnollFarms
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Broke in our new gennie this week. Changed the oil and filled it with Seafoam stabilized fuel before putting it away. Also, made sure the wife could pull start it just in case the battery is dead, I'm on the road, and she needs it.
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I use marine Stabil in my portable inverter (Champion) and turn the fuel off and dry out the carb too.
Despite all the hoopla on here about Seafoam being a fuel stabilizer, I don't buy into that.
I don't get to the Trade shows I used to.... I'd like to talk with someone technical @ Golden Eagle. The 360 Protection (vapour deposition) line they were working on caught my eye, but they seem to have gone radio-silent on that aspect of the formulation. <<< Valuable to me, with small-engine metal gas tanks...
(360 may have the same formula/function today, and they just decided to back away from publishing claims, IDK yet).
Rgds, D.