Good job, seriously. Let me give you some tips. 1. After the engine has been off for 1 week, it is a good practice to engage the starter for 10 seconds, but without starting the engine. This will allow the oil to lubricate the turbo and distribute the oil inside the engine. There is less wear and tear on the engine. 2. When you check the batteries, and an automatic engine start will occur, your eyes and face can feel very bad. The plug is open. If the electrolyte level is low, the battery will explode. Don't take that risk. At least put the Torno selector switch to OFF 3. It is good practice to use the test button on the Torno display. The engine will start for 30 min and stop automatically after that. The engine will also stop immediately in case of a fault. In auto mode the engine will not stop and the Torno will just ring. The automatic start can then be checked additionally. 4. You forgot to check the bypass line of the cooling loop. Close the main line taps and open the bypass line taps and record the pressure. Then turn the taps back on 5. After the tests you should clean the strainers of the cooling loop 6. The cool down mode is done by the Clarke control panel itself. It opens the water solenoid of the cooling loop (a short time after the engine has stopped for a few minutes and water flows to the drain through the heat exchanger). 7. It is good practice to check the flow of raw waste water through the heat exchangers into the drain, as well as the pressure in the cooling loop Good luck!
Thanks for the tips! I'll try to incorporate them into my next test! All this is great information and I do appreciate you sharing it with me. A lot of people do not want to share their knowledge with other people because they feel like they’re gonna be better than them. But I always try to share whatever I know to other people because no one ever shared anything with me and that’s a little frustrating to try to figure out all this stuff out by yourself. But I took some screenshots of your comments and I will do that next time. Thanks for watching and again thank you for all the information. Stay strong and healthy. Bye-bye.
@@JoyCool1 That's great! I hope I helped you. Oh, and one more thing. Remove the stuffing box guards before starting the engine and you can monitor the flow of lubricating water through the each packing. The water flow through each pucking should be about as thick as a matchstick. In this case the packing will not burn out. Also, before starting the engine, check the water dripping from the packing (2-3 drops per second). Then you'll be sure that the packing is lubricated and not dry and won't burn out immediately after pump start Before pressing the test button on the Torno, you must find a suitable flexible hose and connect it to the white fitting on the black block of the Torno pressostat. The hose must be directed downwards onto the floor or into the drain, otherwise you will pour water on and spoil the wall. I don't remember, but I assume the fitting can't be rotated on its axis. Use the hose Waiting for a video with new tips!
I hope your company knows what they have in you. A lot of people do not know what you know. Unfortunately today people just get by and they don’t learn anything. I try to learn something new every day. But at my age, it gets a little harder. Thank you for sharing all your information. Like I said, I took a screenshot of this and hopefully I can use it in a future video. Stay strong and healthy. Bye-bye.
@@JoyCool1 I'm the chief of tech at the Clarke dealership. We are also Patterson Pump Ireland dealers. I have been commissioning Aurora Pump, SPP Pumps, Clarke engines, etc. for many years, performing fire pump installation audits to NFPA20, FM Global, annual tests. If you have any questions, please get in touch. I liked your accuracy, attentiveness, interesting in your work. There are no other videos like this on yotube.
Good old silent night I mean the Christmas song. Thank you for your nice comment. Thank you for watching. Stay strong and healthy and merry Christmas to you and your family. Bye-bye Chris.
How often do you check the pump shaft packing glands for proper drip cooling and lubrication? It wasn't clear on the video that you gave it a look. Or maybe this pump has mechanical seals. Is there a jockey pump connected to this system, I did not see one in the video. BTW, you have made a first class video!!
I checked the packing and the small drips that cool it down every time I run this pumps. Thank you for watching and thank you for your nice comments. Stay strong and healthy! Bye bye
Well, there’s a lot of stuff in this building. There’s some foam and there’s some furniture and there’s a couple other businesses. But if you have a diesel fire pump, you are supposed to run it each week for 1/2 an hour. And if you have an electric fire pump you need to run that once a month for 10 minutes. it’s just per Code and for the law that they want to make sure that it runs in case there’s a fire. So yes you need to run it each week for a half an hour thank you for watching and thank you for your nice comment. Stay strong and healthy. Bye-bye.
Yes, you would make pretty good money just holding my clipboard. I would probably have to pay you a living wage? That’s what they say. People need to live around here. But what is a living wage anymore? I know that I’m broke and I make pretty good money. But I’m grateful for everything I have and I think the world needs to be more grateful for what they have and quit buying everything they don’t need? Thank you again for watching and thank you again for your nice comments. Stay strong and healthy. Bye-bye.
Wow, I will have to do the math next time I’m out there? But you’re right this is a brand new building. So these pumps have not been ran for that many times? Maybe next time I’m out there I’ll use my calculator and figure out how many times the pump has been ran. Thank you again for your nice comment. Thank you again again for watching. Stay strong and healthy. Bye-bye..
Good job, seriously.
Let me give you some tips.
1. After the engine has been off for 1 week, it is a good practice to engage the starter for 10 seconds, but without starting the engine. This will allow the oil to lubricate the turbo and distribute the oil inside the engine. There is less wear and tear on the engine.
2. When you check the batteries, and an automatic engine start will occur, your eyes and face can feel very bad. The plug is open. If the electrolyte level is low, the battery will explode. Don't take that risk. At least put the Torno selector switch to OFF
3. It is good practice to use the test button on the Torno display. The engine will start for 30 min and stop automatically after that. The engine will also stop immediately in case of a fault. In auto mode the engine will not stop and the Torno will just ring. The automatic start can then be checked additionally.
4. You forgot to check the bypass line of the cooling loop. Close the main line taps and open the bypass line taps and record the pressure. Then turn the taps back on
5. After the tests you should clean the strainers of the cooling loop
6. The cool down mode is done by the Clarke control panel itself. It opens the water solenoid of the cooling loop (a short time after the engine has stopped for a few minutes and water flows to the drain through the heat exchanger).
7. It is good practice to check the flow of raw waste water through the heat exchangers into the drain, as well as the pressure in the cooling loop
Good luck!
Thanks for the tips! I'll try to incorporate them into my next test! All this is great information and I do appreciate you sharing it with me. A lot of people do not want to share their knowledge with other people because they feel like they’re gonna be better than them. But I always try to share whatever I know to other people because no one ever shared anything with me and that’s a little frustrating to try to figure out all this stuff out by yourself. But I took some screenshots of your comments and I will do that next time. Thanks for watching and again thank you for all the information. Stay strong and healthy. Bye-bye.
Thank you for all that information again. I do appreciate it. I’m going to learn something from you today. Stay strong and healthy. Bye-bye.
@@JoyCool1 That's great! I hope I helped you.
Oh, and one more thing. Remove the stuffing box guards before starting the engine and you can monitor the flow of lubricating water through the each packing. The water flow through each pucking should be about as thick as a matchstick. In this case the packing will not burn out.
Also, before starting the engine, check the water dripping from the packing (2-3 drops per second). Then you'll be sure that the packing is lubricated and not dry and won't burn out immediately after pump start
Before pressing the test button on the Torno, you must find a suitable flexible hose and connect it to the white fitting on the black block of the Torno pressostat. The hose must be directed downwards onto the floor or into the drain, otherwise you will pour water on and spoil the wall.
I don't remember, but I assume the fitting can't be rotated on its axis. Use the hose
Waiting for a video with new tips!
I hope your company knows what they have in you. A lot of people do not know what you know. Unfortunately today people just get by and they don’t learn anything. I try to learn something new every day. But at my age, it gets a little harder. Thank you for sharing all your information. Like I said, I took a screenshot of this and hopefully I can use it in a future video. Stay strong and healthy. Bye-bye.
@@JoyCool1 I'm the chief of tech at the Clarke dealership. We are also Patterson Pump Ireland dealers. I have been commissioning Aurora Pump, SPP Pumps, Clarke engines, etc. for many years, performing fire pump installation audits to NFPA20, FM Global, annual tests.
If you have any questions, please get in touch. I liked your accuracy, attentiveness, interesting in your work. There are no other videos like this on yotube.
Good Ole Silent Knight Panels
Good old silent night I mean the Christmas song. Thank you for your nice comment. Thank you for watching. Stay strong and healthy and merry Christmas to you and your family. Bye-bye Chris.
How often do you check the pump shaft packing glands for proper drip cooling and lubrication? It wasn't clear on the video that you gave it a look. Or maybe this pump has mechanical seals. Is there a jockey pump connected to this system, I did not see one in the video. BTW, you have made a first class video!!
I checked the packing and the small drips that cool it down every time I run this pumps. Thank you for watching and thank you for your nice comments. Stay strong and healthy! Bye bye
Is there a reason this needs to happen so frequently? What's in this building?
Well, there’s a lot of stuff in this building. There’s some foam and there’s some furniture and there’s a couple other businesses. But if you have a diesel fire pump, you are supposed to run it each week for 1/2 an hour. And if you have an electric fire pump you need to run that once a month for 10 minutes. it’s just per Code and for the law that they want to make sure that it runs in case there’s a fire. So yes you need to run it each week for a half an hour thank you for watching and thank you for your nice comment. Stay strong and healthy. Bye-bye.
May I hold your clipboard
Yes, you would make pretty good money just holding my clipboard. I would probably have to pay you a living wage? That’s what they say. People need to live around here. But what is a living wage anymore? I know that I’m broke and I make pretty good money. But I’m grateful for everything I have and I think the world needs to be more grateful for what they have and quit buying everything they don’t need? Thank you again for watching and thank you again for your nice comments. Stay strong and healthy. Bye-bye.
How can the pump only have 12.5 hours, if you test this for 30 minutes every week? That would make this pump only what… six months old?
Wow, I will have to do the math next time I’m out there? But you’re right this is a brand new building. So these pumps have not been ran for that many times? Maybe next time I’m out there I’ll use my calculator and figure out how many times the pump has been ran. Thank you again for your nice comment. Thank you again again for watching. Stay strong and healthy. Bye-bye..
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A pump test?
Can explain how you do a complete test?
What the steps