Diesel gensets, light loads, glazing

 So, they say that diesel gensets become somehow damaged by light
loads. They become glazed or sooted or who knows what.

If and when I use my diesel generator to power up my house, it is
going to be run at light loads for considerable periods of time.

Is there a simple cure for this? Would running it under full load for
some time (easy for me), such as one hour per day of regular
operation, remove "glazing" or whatever?

thanks

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  Ignoramus21810 wrote:

Some people have found that the noise 24/7 from the diesel is more
bother to them than how much wear and tear it gets. A solution that's
commonly used is to add a battery bank, charger and inverter. This
means you can run your generator at a high load for a few hours to
charge the batteries and then shut it down. The rest of the day you
run off the batteries which don't make any noise at all.

Anthony

 
It is a great solution for people who live off grid. Since Iexpect to
run my genset only 1-2 days per year at most, buying batteries and
other accessories is an unjustifiable expense.

i

 


     I think you worry way too much about way too little.  We had a diesel
standby generator (Lister) outside our shop for over twenty years.  Sometimes we
would forget and idle the dang thing all afternoon.  It didn't care.  We NEVER
ran it with over a KW or two of load, usually it had just a single light bulb
across the output so we knew it was working.  No problems.

     Wish I still had it.

Vaughn



   If you were running it 24/7 then perhaps you would have a worry.

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That's certainly encouraging. Thank you.

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