Where else on the internet could you hear the beastly exhaust of an 884 RoiLine engine under load and have a quick entomological description of stink bugs? Fine work from you both!
@@dennisford2000 And yet, the first documented specimen was collected in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in September 1998 How did you know yours was a stink bug in the early 60's?
Debugging the system, literally! It was nice to follow the journey of refurbishing this old beast. Glad to see it have a new lease on life when other people might have scrapped it.
Absolutely incredible machine and great camera work by RK. Your employer is truly blessed to have you on his team as we are to have you share all your fun. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
i believe that is the sound of the throttle going wide open. that's what happens with mechanical governors on the small briggs and honda gensets i'm used to.
I love the sound of a big engine on load. This certainly made me smile. Took me back to a time when I oversaw the maintenance of back up generators at a satellite earth station. We had a pair of 1.5MW Caterpillar V16 diesels. The sound they made under full load was primordial! Great job.
This is what a proper, good-old-fashioned North American industrial engine looks like. No BS, made to run every day and not complain about it, because what if you've got a dozen of these running some remote northern hospital? "Downtime" is not really a word in the vocabulary up there, or anyplace else where 100% uptime is totally critical. Watercooled manifolds too man, what an engine!
I worked at a alfalfa pellet mill that ran 5 and 6 of these engines. They were great. The took more abuse and dirt than any engine should and kept running. Very easy to rebuild.
Your attention to detail is an absolute marvel to watch in a world full of idiots. I worked around several professionals in several different fields in my working years.Your work is a true joy to witness.
Excellent to finally see a big load test on this beautiful beast! She ran like a sewing machine. A very loud, glorious, sewing machine. Nice job on the rebuild! She was definitely worth saving.
The school where I worked has a 884 in the basement for emergency power. When I first saw it, my jaw dropped. Looks a lot like a car V-8 but much bigger!! (And the inside exhaust piping.) "Mine" had been adapted to natural gas. As I recall, it was not maintained regularly and did not always start in our too-frequent power outages. Thanks for the look!
Awesome Mike 👍 got 7 Volvo Penta engined 450KVA units at work. 99.999% of all larger generators over here are diesel. That thing is a beauty to behold, what a wonderful beast. Got that governor spot on💪
'A few bugs to iron out'...but not the sort of bugs you were expecting🤣 Been looking forward to this video Mike. After the first low load test run at your house with lack of gas flow, this full load test was a great result👍🇦🇺
I don't know anything about gas supply. But about 40 years ago I helped dismantle a small glass works shop in Long Island City New York. They had a lot of mostly small burners at the different work tables and machines. They actually ran their gas supply through a Roots blower, designed especially for gas, to increase the pressure. I wonder if anything like that was ever done to run the big gas engines?
I'll have to keep that excuse in mind next time I lose a race... "Stink bugs blocking up my carburetor" 😀 It's nice to see a classic machine that's been renovated a bit and is still up to performing its task.
All the pizza places and home heat went off in area at 90kw. I had stink bugs mess up so much stuff. Mice and bugs both keep us busy... Sounds like a 3408 CAT v8 . Awesome genset. Onan the best!
Took AAAAALL THE LOADS on stride, what a beast. Good job, guys. Looking forward to new adventures(machines). Generally I hate messing with anything putting out more than 12V DC but you make it all easier to understand.
Good string machine! That electronic governor is doing a great job. Much better than the old mechanical one would. The naturally aspirated engine helps with no turbo lag. You would have liked the power plant I built for Bradley International Airport in CT years ago. 5 Megawatts. 3 x 12 cylinder Waukesha nat gas generators @1200 kW ea, 1 16=cylinder Waukesha @ 1500 kW. They ran 24/7/365 providing all of the electricity, heat and cooling for the airport.
It sure does have a bark and would sound really nice through a 20 foot straight pipe along side a building in the middle of the night. I had a lot of trouble hearing you talk with volume all the way up and through headphones. Hope all is all right. Thanks and GBWYall!
I guess you've had this generator for a long time now, and it's good to hear and see it doing what it was born to do. The only problem now is, that pretty much wraps it up for this one? Of course, you could take it home and use it to power your 20' Christmas tree! - I bet that would impress the folk next door.😆😊😇
Glad you were able to get that generator debugged! 😂😂😂 You can really hear it when load hits that sucker too! Corrected and shrugged off all that like it was nothing. I'm glad that genset ended up in your hands and given some love instead of melted down for scrap. It really is a thing of beauty.
Interesting engine design , with the intake and exhaust on the same side of the cyl head, like an inline design, very functional and clean and heavy, built to last.
@@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002, I was thinking the same thing and at 72 years of age I definitely Do Not qualify as a boomer. It is nearly impossible to find anything that is built to last as things were 40 years ago.
Customer reports "there's a bug in the generator, she's down on power" New tech: "I'll get the software update for the control ECU" Old School Tech: "I'll clean the stink bugs out of the gas line"
That test took place at Power Equipment Company behind Denton Vacuum. I am an RF engineer and have worked on the cell tower that’s there. Really nice job on that gen set, it is a “beast”. Enjoy your videos. Happy holiday!
Pretty impressive Mike! (once you got the bugs sorted out) literally! lol Good to see you happy and smiling with 363 Amps on it! Top notch job getting it going again. Thanks for sharing
WOOO!!!! I was wondering when that big boy was gonna be back...so cool! Big mamma jamma is so cool!!!! Running like a boss, seems like it could do that all day long with nary a worry...less the stinkbugs.
Hi Mike. Great work. It was great to see you on Micks livestream on Saturday. I worked on the DC side of standby power for many years. Mostly 5000 amps +or-. Say hi to RK when you see him next.
Great to this monster back on the channel again. It sounds so good running and it just purred like a lion lol when you got the stink bugs out of the carb intake. Your are so good at your job because you truly enjoy working on these. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your wife!!
Cool project ! Thanks for sharing. I liked the old fashioned debugging. The regulation seems to have some overshoot. Usually, increasing the derivative term of the PID can cure this.
"She can't take it anymore Captain, we have to purge the Di-lithium Stink Bugs out out of the Intake manifold regulator"! Nice video Mike except at the end your voice dropped so low I couldn't hear a thing you we saying. Try enabling the Closed Caption so I can read what your saying when the audio it to low to hear. Thanks for sharing Best Wishes & Blessing and a Merry Christmas to you, family and friends. Keith Noneya
There's a 90 KW genset at the chicken farm I used to work at. Straight 6 Cummins diesel engine is what it has. I kind of feel sorry for that generator since it rarely ever got used. It did get exercised once a month where it would come on and run for 20 minutes. When the company made us put in a backup generator, it was to power the entire Farm as if every single fan, feed line, and every motor was running. So even when the generator did get "exercised" every month, it was only ever running at 20% load, if that. It could probably go for a good, real exercising. When you consider there's 2-4 out of a dozen fans running per Barn, and 3 barns at a time maybe. The feed lines don't run constantly and chances are they may or may not kick on but that's just one more half horse motor. Not a whole lot of work for a big genset like that.
this video is actually a pretty good demonstration as to why it is important to have a UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) that conditions the power instead of just passing line voltage through when powering sensitive electronics (like a data switch, telephone system, servers) with a generator. The generator takes a moment to get up to speed when starting and compensating for large load adjustments (low voltage wrong frequency for that time) over voltage high frequency before the throttle can back off, under voltage etc. until things finally settle down. A generator never really truly runs clean. Spurious voltage spikes etc. Earlier this month, a customer of mine tested their generator. Blew out the UPS that was powering a data switch that ran their wireless IP DECT telephone handsets. It was a care home environment where the nurses required the handsets for patient care. In this case it was easy to plug the data switch directly into mains power to bypass the faulty UPS than to source a replacement data switch and then find a guy to program for the appropriate Vlans etc.
Back in the late 2000's, I was talking with a Telco tech that had helped put in cell service in the area I was in - pretty much same issue. They tried to run the towers off of generators, but couldn't maintain reliability. All the issues went away when they ran line power to the towers. I'd say it was mostly due to the frequency variation, since most modern supplies can handle a wide range of voltages. I know a guy that used to do grid tie systems, and one of their requirements was zero variation on the frequencies - which makes sense, you can't have the waveform all over the place or else you're going to have all kinds of issues. Also explains why home grid tie systems are generally based on inverter tech, waaaay tighter control of the sync.
Harmonic content of a larger generator like this one is low enough to be considered high quality power. Usually well under 5% THD. I measure it with a Fluke 41b meter. The newer Fluke is the 43b. The generator transfer switch controller has a lot to do with issues such as switching back to utility power too soon. That will be very dirty power for minutes after return as motor and compressor starting loads stabilize. The sized right gen set should be very clean provided the load power factor is decent and the load is not a lot of variable frequency drives.
@@RadioNJ1948 Help me understand.... I think you are saying the transfer switch controller is (can be) set to keep the critical loads on the generator for a period of time (5 minutes?) after the mains power has been restored to a building in order to avoid dirty mains power immediately after restoration? Can the transfer switch controller be set to delay connection of the load to the generator until after it is up and running on a stable voltage and frequency? Is there anything in the transfer switch controller that will synchronize the frequency between mains and the generator?
Yet another fantastic video! I was concerned about crossfire when I saw the plug wires zip tied together. That has caused engine failure in racing engines. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Definitely seen a good amount of Onans, never heard of this engine… a solid ‘big block’ V8 no doubt! At the wastewater treatment plant I worked at they have a 875kw generator powered by a Detroit diesel 18v92, 2 big turbos. Definitely a loud Detroit! Sounded wicked under load test!
@@69uremum at 800+ cubes and near 2200 rpm for a couple hours isn't likely to have done much good. Perhaps a more significant concern is what effect might the aircleaner have had on governor response. Yes, I had not thought of that, I saw another post wondering.
@@walterk1221 ... tach? Did you mean that gauge in the box he kept picking up? That would be fuel pressure, which was actually low due to the long hose. (reading between 2-3) Normal would be near 6" of pressure. BTW, I worked on gen sets near 25 years and never saw one with a tach. They use the frequency gauge to set RPM.
Been waiting for this for a long time was worth it what a beautiful machine it really is great to see you so happy with it after the work you did 👍 keep up the great work your content means allot to me I absolutely love it generators are one of my favourite things nothing like an engine working hard with a steady load on it perfection 👌
Where else on the internet could you hear the beastly exhaust of an 884 RoiLine engine under load and have a quick entomological description of stink bugs? Fine work from you both!
Great comment Ed!! You tickled Me!!☺
SMALL engine Mechanic .....
I remember mom smashed a stink bug in the early 60s . Alabama
We call them squash bugs here and they keep me from having really good pumpkin or squash in the garden
@@dennisford2000 And yet, the first documented specimen was collected in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in September 1998
How did you know yours was a stink bug in the early 60's?
Debugging the system, literally!
It was nice to follow the journey of refurbishing this old beast. Glad to see it have a new lease on life when other people might have scrapped it.
NOBODY gets machines as clean as you do Mike... you are my hero buddy!
Absolutely incredible machine and great camera work by RK. Your employer is truly blessed to have you on his team as we are to have you share all your fun. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I know its a gas engine, when you took the load off it sounded like a Jake brake was applied.
Beautiful machine Mike and another great video!!!
Most engines are louder on the over run
Glad I'm not the only one that thought that.
i believe that is the sound of the throttle going wide open. that's what happens with mechanical governors on the small briggs and honda gensets i'm used to.
What a monster, somehow more impressive than the cat Gen set. I'm jealous, I want one just to hear it run !!!
I love the sound of a big engine on load. This certainly made me smile. Took me back to a time when I oversaw the maintenance of back up generators at a satellite earth station. We had a pair of 1.5MW Caterpillar V16 diesels. The sound they made under full load was primordial! Great job.
Oddly enough, I looked after a satellite earth station that also had a pair of Cat V16 diesel gensets!
This is what a proper, good-old-fashioned North American industrial engine looks like. No BS, made to run every day and not complain about it, because what if you've got a dozen of these running some remote northern hospital? "Downtime" is not really a word in the vocabulary up there, or anyplace else where 100% uptime is totally critical. Watercooled manifolds too man, what an engine!
I worked at a alfalfa pellet mill that ran 5 and 6 of these engines. They were great. The took more abuse and dirt than any engine should and kept running. Very easy to rebuild.
Your attention to detail is an absolute marvel to watch in a world full of idiots. I worked around several professionals in several different fields in my working years.Your work is a true joy to witness.
From a Diesel mechanic with 50 years experience, she sounds really good!
The Roiline engines were very good, I used to work on larger V8 and V12 Roiline and Waukesha VHP 5790s all great prime movers.
That engine sounds so good.
what a loyal old unit! just wants to run.
thanks for taking us to work!!! was really cool to see this old beast come to life with a 2" gas line
I’m impressed by the load banks, those are some damn good heaters! 😮
Me too!
all around awesome. now you need to acquire a small village to rehab
Awesome finally seeing this old girl doing what she was built for. Looks like the conversion was a success.
Nothing small about that one mike! Love it!
Excellent to finally see a big load test on this beautiful beast! She ran like a sewing machine. A very loud, glorious, sewing machine. Nice job on the rebuild! She was definitely worth saving.
Nice seeing you back up on UTube Amazing how much better it runs with a 2" gas line!
Kinda puts the kabosh to the "small" engine mechanic title! What great machine. Great job!
Great video! Don’t adjust anything! If it ain’t broke don’t fix it! Perfect performance!
The school where I worked has a 884 in the basement for emergency power. When I first saw it, my jaw dropped. Looks a lot like a car V-8 but much bigger!! (And the inside exhaust piping.) "Mine" had been adapted to natural gas. As I recall, it was not maintained regularly and did not always start in our too-frequent power outages. Thanks for the look!
What a monster, and the sound of that exhaust, wow! Thanks for introducing me to the wonderful world or Waukesha engines with this!
The sound of that engine is amazing!
What a machine! Glad to hear her working under load!
Awesome Mike 👍 got 7 Volvo Penta engined 450KVA units at work. 99.999% of all larger generators over here are diesel. That thing is a beauty to behold, what a wonderful beast. Got that governor spot on💪
Man that sounds good under load!
A real nice gas powered generator video. Those gas engines sound great !
'A few bugs to iron out'...but not the sort of bugs you were expecting🤣 Been looking forward to this video Mike. After the first low load test run at your house with lack of gas flow, this full load test was a great result👍🇦🇺
That's one beast of a genset, and you look like have it going 99%. Very impressive work!
That thing is sweet! I want one of those for a house back-up generator. My neighbors would love that. I'd run it just like it is, no mufflers!
What a BEAST! Glad to see it getting a good run after all the work. Always fun to get a project put together and running good. Fun to watch! Thanks!
Sounds like a happy engine with no stink bugs !!
I don't know anything about gas supply. But about 40 years ago I helped dismantle a small glass works shop in Long Island City New York. They had a lot of mostly small burners at the different work tables and machines. They actually ran their gas supply through a Roots blower, designed especially for gas, to increase the pressure. I wonder if anything like that was ever done to run the big gas engines?
oowee she has a nice crisp bark with the wildlife removed from the mixer .
Great video boys, G'day from Australia
I'll have to keep that excuse in mind next time I lose a race... "Stink bugs blocking up my carburetor" 😀
It's nice to see a classic machine that's been renovated a bit and is still up to performing its task.
All the pizza places and home heat went off in area at 90kw.
I had stink bugs mess up so much stuff.
Mice and bugs both keep us busy...
Sounds like a 3408 CAT v8 .
Awesome genset.
Onan the best!
That big guy gets me every time, what a behemoth
Great video. Love the load bank videos. Show how everything should work
NICE WORK !!!
Good diagnosis to find the stink bugs .
What a fluke that was !!!
Took AAAAALL THE LOADS on stride, what a beast. Good job, guys.
Looking forward to new adventures(machines).
Generally I hate messing with anything putting out more than 12V DC but you make it all easier to understand.
Good string machine! That electronic governor is doing a great job. Much better than the old mechanical one would. The naturally aspirated engine helps with no turbo lag.
You would have liked the power plant I built for Bradley International Airport in CT years ago. 5 Megawatts. 3 x 12 cylinder Waukesha nat gas generators @1200 kW ea, 1 16=cylinder Waukesha @ 1500 kW. They ran 24/7/365 providing all of the electricity, heat and cooling for the airport.
Very cool to see this old girl working! Thanks for the update
It sure does have a bark and would sound really nice through a 20 foot straight pipe along side a building in the middle of the night. I had a lot of trouble hearing you talk with volume all the way up and through headphones. Hope all is all right. Thanks and GBWYall!
I guess you've had this generator for a long time now, and it's good to hear and see it doing what it was born to do. The only problem now is, that pretty much wraps it up for this one?
Of course, you could take it home and use it to power your 20' Christmas tree! - I bet that would impress the folk next door.😆😊😇
Glad you were able to get that generator debugged! 😂😂😂
You can really hear it when load hits that sucker too! Corrected and shrugged off all that like it was nothing.
I'm glad that genset ended up in your hands and given some love instead of melted down for scrap. It really is a thing of beauty.
Interesting engine design , with the intake and exhaust on the same side of the cyl head, like an inline design, very functional and clean and heavy, built to last.
Yes not made in china
@@benmarykuca4144 OK boomer
@@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002, I was thinking the same thing and at 72 years of age I definitely Do Not qualify as a boomer.
It is nearly impossible to find anything that is built to last as things were 40 years ago.
@@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002 nope no made in china for me I'm old school made in USA, south bend, made in Canada made in England, or Germany
@@brucejones2354 No it isnt, you're just too cheap to buy it.
Customer reports "there's a bug in the generator, she's down on power"
New tech: "I'll get the software update for the control ECU"
Old School Tech: "I'll clean the stink bugs out of the gas line"
We had those in New Zealand and back in the early 60's we called them Shield beetles because of their shape. they stink when you squash them.
That test took place at Power Equipment Company behind Denton Vacuum. I am an RF engineer and have worked on the cell tower that’s there. Really nice job on that gen set, it is a “beast”. Enjoy your videos. Happy holiday!
Which company owned/operated that tower?
@@salamisalesexpress that’s a Crown Castle tower.
@@RadioNJ1948 was it built for Sprint originally?
@@salamisalesexpress T-Mobile. 2007. Sold to Crown around 2013
@@RadioNJ1948 ah okay my dad worked for sprint when they were deploying towers in that area in the early 00s so I was wondering.
You did a fine job tuning and cleaning her up and it runs great!
Pretty impressive Mike! (once you got the bugs sorted out) literally! lol
Good to see you happy and smiling with 363 Amps on it!
Top notch job getting it going again. Thanks for sharing
Fantastic video as always and wow your looking great with all the weight loss buddy keep up the great work
Impressive machine! TH-cam has missed notifying me that you had new videos. Thanks a lot for sharing!
WOOO!!!! I was wondering when that big boy was gonna be back...so cool! Big mamma jamma is so cool!!!! Running like a boss, seems like it could do that all day long with nary a worry...less the stinkbugs.
Great to see you, Mike.
Hi Mike. Great work. It was great to see you on Micks livestream on Saturday. I worked on the DC side of standby power for many years. Mostly 5000 amps +or-. Say hi to RK when you see him next.
Hey Bruce - like standby power for telephone central offices?
Your neighbors must love you. A lot.
Great to this monster back on the channel again. It sounds so good running and it just purred like a lion lol when you got the stink bugs out of the carb intake. Your are so good at your job because you truly enjoy working on these. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your wife!!
This is so cool. Thanks for taking us along! Always appreciate your content. Merry Christmas
Beautiful Machine , glad you & it prevailed to be in Service once more.
Wow she sounds awesome. Imagine that engine in a pulling tractor, would be sweet.
Thanks for the video mike. Good to see it up and running. Also good camera work. Very cool!
Don't think I've ever clicked on a video so fast! Been waiting a minute to experience this magnificent great honking beast under load.
That is one monstrous machine you have there my friend.
This is awesome, I love the loading of the generator and how you describe everything
Great run Mike ! You have done wonders with that Genset .. ENJOYED
That is a amazing gen set. Great job 👍
The smile tells it all.
What a nice surprise for a Monday morning.
When you started it after removing the junk out of fuel system. It sounded more agressive ust have been lean from the git go but plugged up tighter.
Good job putting this one together. Watched it from the start
Cool project ! Thanks for sharing. I liked the old fashioned debugging. The regulation seems to have some overshoot. Usually, increasing the derivative term of the PID can cure this.
Very cool! I'll bet it sounded awesome in person especially with a load on it.
Great video of that gen working loved it sounds really strong
things us small engine amateurs would never think of. check the intake for stink bugs. amazing, and awesome.
"She can't take it anymore Captain, we have to purge the Di-lithium Stink Bugs out out of the Intake manifold regulator"! Nice video Mike except at the end your voice dropped so low I couldn't hear a thing you we saying. Try enabling the Closed Caption so I can read what your saying when the audio it to low to hear. Thanks for sharing Best Wishes & Blessing and a Merry Christmas to you, family and friends. Keith Noneya
I've waited soooo long to see this beast running full chat!
That sounds awesome, like a low flying plane. Great work, always enjoy your content.
Great build, glad you finished the series! True craftsman, I know it takes a lot to film these but it's great to watch!
There's a 90 KW genset at the chicken farm I used to work at. Straight 6 Cummins diesel engine is what it has. I kind of feel sorry for that generator since it rarely ever got used. It did get exercised once a month where it would come on and run for 20 minutes. When the company made us put in a backup generator, it was to power the entire Farm as if every single fan, feed line, and every motor was running. So even when the generator did get "exercised" every month, it was only ever running at 20% load, if that. It could probably go for a good, real exercising. When you consider there's 2-4 out of a dozen fans running per Barn, and 3 barns at a time maybe. The feed lines don't run constantly and chances are they may or may not kick on but that's just one more half horse motor. Not a whole lot of work for a big genset like that.
this video is actually a pretty good demonstration as to why it is important to have a UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) that conditions the power instead of just passing line voltage through when powering sensitive electronics (like a data switch, telephone system, servers) with a generator.
The generator takes a moment to get up to speed when starting and compensating for large load adjustments (low voltage wrong frequency for that time) over voltage high frequency before the throttle can back off, under voltage etc. until things finally settle down. A generator never really truly runs clean. Spurious voltage spikes etc.
Earlier this month, a customer of mine tested their generator. Blew out the UPS that was powering a data switch that ran their wireless IP DECT telephone handsets. It was a care home environment where the nurses required the handsets for patient care.
In this case it was easy to plug the data switch directly into mains power to bypass the faulty UPS than to source a replacement data switch and then find a guy to program for the appropriate Vlans etc.
Back in the late 2000's, I was talking with a Telco tech that had helped put in cell service in the area I was in - pretty much same issue. They tried to run the towers off of generators, but couldn't maintain reliability. All the issues went away when they ran line power to the towers. I'd say it was mostly due to the frequency variation, since most modern supplies can handle a wide range of voltages.
I know a guy that used to do grid tie systems, and one of their requirements was zero variation on the frequencies - which makes sense, you can't have the waveform all over the place or else you're going to have all kinds of issues. Also explains why home grid tie systems are generally based on inverter tech, waaaay tighter control of the sync.
Harmonic content of a larger generator like this one is low enough to be considered high quality power. Usually well under 5% THD. I measure it with a Fluke 41b meter. The newer Fluke is the 43b. The generator transfer switch controller has a lot to do with issues such as switching back to utility power too soon. That will be very dirty power for minutes after return as motor and compressor starting loads stabilize. The sized right gen set should be very clean provided the load power factor is decent and the load is not a lot of variable frequency drives.
@@RadioNJ1948 Help me understand....
I think you are saying the transfer switch controller is (can be) set to keep the critical loads on the generator for a period of time (5 minutes?) after the mains power has been restored to a building in order to avoid dirty mains power immediately after restoration?
Can the transfer switch controller be set to delay connection of the load to the generator until after it is up and running on a stable voltage and frequency?
Is there anything in the transfer switch controller that will synchronize the frequency between mains and the generator?
DC. Big hi-rel systems (server farms) run off DC - a (literal) "battery plant" ...
Yet another fantastic video!
I was concerned about crossfire when I saw the plug wires zip tied together. That has caused engine failure in racing engines.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Same here. I would suggest spacers.
Dang - as you added load around 12:00, the governor kept up even better!
Awesome! That thing is a beast! You have mad skills.
Awesome video. Enjoy the excitement from horsepower and electricity.
Definitely seen a good amount of Onans, never heard of this engine… a solid ‘big block’ V8 no doubt! At the wastewater treatment plant I worked at they have a 875kw generator powered by a Detroit diesel 18v92, 2 big turbos. Definitely a loud Detroit! Sounded wicked under load test!
Great to see you back Mike, great result sounds fantastic, especially love the off load exhaust note!
That is a beautiful unit!
[EDIT: it freaked me out that you ran it so long at 100% rated without an air filter.]
looks wet out, probably very low levels of particulates in the air. Running for a few mins without an air cleaner wont hurt that big cast iron mill.
@@69uremum at 800+ cubes and near 2200 rpm for a couple hours isn't likely to have done much good. Perhaps a more significant concern is what effect might the aircleaner have had on governor response. Yes, I had not thought of that, I saw another post wondering.
@@walterk1221 ... should be only 1800 RPM for 60 Hz.
@@rupe53 did I misread the tach? If so, obviously my bad.
@@walterk1221 ... tach? Did you mean that gauge in the box he kept picking up? That would be fuel pressure, which was actually low due to the long hose. (reading between 2-3) Normal would be near 6" of pressure. BTW, I worked on gen sets near 25 years and never saw one with a tach. They use the frequency gauge to set RPM.
Thanks for the Christmas present video Mike.
Good job Mike, it works and sounds as good as a new one.
Nice! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and an awesome New Year
Awesome machine. Runs great. I saw the other videos on this.
Been waiting for this for a long time was worth it what a beautiful machine it really is great to see you so happy with it after the work you did 👍 keep up the great work your content means allot to me I absolutely love it generators are one of my favourite things nothing like an engine working hard with a steady load on it perfection 👌
Damn...that is an awesome machine...congrats!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Awesome Job Mike!!! Always Look Forward to your Videos!!! Keep up the great work and Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
Nice job on that beast, you should be proud.
Thats awesome! I can only imagine how much natural gas that engine gulps per hour.
Great job Mike, merry Christmas ~!