Keep Her

[oneshot]

My wife bought a Whole House Generator that runs on Diesel.

oneshot 

[Deadstream]

I really can't keep up.

[Terrierman]

Diesel draws water.  Be sure to have a good fuel/water separator in the line before fuel pump or injectors.  And drain/change that bulk tank every year.  Or you will wish you had.  From a person who's got a fair amount of experience with diesel fired generators, from small to run a sewer plant, to large to run Big Cedar Lodge.

[fishinwrench]

Probably best to fire it up every month or so to keep things circulating.   Otherwise that SOB will fail on ya when you actually need it.

[Terrierman]

26 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Probably best to fire it up every month or so to keep things circulating.   Otherwise that SOB will fail on ya when you actually need it.

Any decent whole home generator does an auto start and transfer on it's own.  Usually one time per month.  Run on load for about 30 minutes.  Keeps fuel fresher in the engine, dries out the windings, confirms the transfer solenoids work, all that kind of silly stuff.




 

[jdmidwest]

No wonder she was complaining that you only spent a hundred dollars on flowers for Valentines Day.  I think hers were bigger.

[oneshot]

16 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Probably best to fire it up every month or so to keep things circulating.   Otherwise that SOB will fail on ya when you actually need it.

She said it needed to be run one hour once a month.

Hey way I figure it’s her baby. Getting it hooked up might cost.

oneshot

[oneshot]

15 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

No wonder she was complaining that you only spent a hundred dollars on flowers for Valentines Day.  I think hers were bigger.

Hey I try!

oneshot

[Dutch]

18 minutes ago, oneshot said:

She said it needed to be run one hour once a month.

Hey way I figure it’s her baby. Getting it hooked up might cost.

oneshot

After the ice storm a few years ago we bought a generator and hired an electrician to set it up.  He wired it into the breaker box and has a box on the back of our house so if the power goes out we can move the generator to the box, throw the electric input main breakers (so we can’t accidentally kill power line repair men), pull the connecting cord out, plug in the generator and fire it up.  Our generator is not big enough for the whole house at once so we have to selectively control other breakers.

Having it done by a qualified person is a must and can keep you from killing someone.

[BilletHead]

14 minutes ago, Dutch said:

Having it done by a qualified person is a must and can keep you from killing someone.

       Correct,

    A line crew, serviceman or troubleshooter out on an outage shudder at the sound of a home generator.  Those transformers that give you useable voltage into your house can and will work in reverse too. Nothing worse than a hack trying to hook a generator to his fuse box.