Nearly every home standby set (and most commercial/industrial ones, too) have “exercise clocks” or timers that run the unit weekly for a short time to “exercise” it. I’m sure Donald’s does, regardless of brand.
Mine runs for 20 minutes every Monday at 11:00. Because it’s in a sound-attenuated enclosure, if I’m not out there right next to it I have no idea if it’s running or not. In fact, my AC compressor is about 10 feet from the generator, and it’s louder. However, even if I don’t catch it, the run is logged along with all the operating parameters and of course, there’s an hour meter as well. It gets serviced twice a year for which I pay a local dealer $450. One service includes an oil and filter change. -D > On Sep 12, 2023, at 4:27 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > At work they have backup diesel generators on many of the buildings. They > have to "exercise" them every so often (monthly? quarterly?) wondering if > your system came with any instructions i.e. "run it up to operating > temperature every 30 days" > > > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2023, at 15:19, Donald Snook via Mercedes wrote: >> My neighborhood has a LOT of very large and old trees. Just this year >> the power has gone out 5 times. We got pretty frustrated and decided >> to pull the trigger on a whole generator that runs off natural gas that >> is coming into the house anyway. It has an automatic switch and does >> everything on its own. Pretty amazing technology. >> >> They just finished installing and testing it today. Interestingly, >> there is no maintenance for the first two years. The first thing is an >> oil change in two years which is included in the “free” maintenance for >> 5 years. I wasn’t there today when they finished installation. It >> would have been interesting to watch. >> >> Donald H. Snook >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
