What is the Maintenance of a Diesel Generator Set?
Maintenance on a diesel generator set is about the same as owning a diesel powered car. Routine maintenance like oil, oil filter, air filter, and fuel filter. For cold and tropical climates it is advise to have a water-fuel separation filter system installed. The worse enemy of a diesel generator set is moisture because the water properties create advance ignition and accelerated detonation. Maintenance on a diesel generator set requires you start up and exercise your generator set.. Setting up a regular program for starting up your diesel generator set is the prefer way. How much, depends, the bigger the diesel generator set the bigger the engine and expense for operation and consumables. Most manufactures recommend exercising the genset for about a half-hour of run time, once a week. You will want it to run long enough to heat up all the components. The engine oil will need to be change every 100 to 250 hours depending on the dust conditions. Changing the oil filter every time you ch
