Thread: Buying a Generator

Originally Posted by nat_89

Hahaha why not!! I saw a big coates 20kva silenced diesel one at work broken down for like 6 months i was so bloody tempted to work out some way of getting it out haha probably was only sitting there with a stupid fault that no one knew who to contact about!! But if i had the skills id do the same big auto start diesel one why not ahaha

If it still belonged to Coates, then I'm the one they should have been talking to.

20KVA isn't a big set in the grand scheme of things. We have everything up to 1,400KVA units too...

If it was a Cummins They are probably waiting on a new card or transfer switch to come from Singapore Nice engines and alternators but the way they hang the rest together

I see your 40kva and raise you 120kva. Currently standing next to this 6.8l Turbo Diesel John Deer pumping out 160kva.



I cheated though, this powers the essential side of a Supermarket.

The last Generator I did was 1mva (which powered an entire supermarket with room to spafe) and it smoked pretty bad on start. Turns out they never fitted the water jacket heater.

I'll find a pic later, but I just finished a job that required nearly 18MVA total across 3 sites with the main site running just over 14MVA - 7x1250's and 4x1400's supplying over 8,500 customers out of a zone sub.

That was fun, but didn't get much sleep for a few days. Lots of work for 2 x 8 hour runs.

Holy **** that's some money worth there!

Done by Bacicat but not by Badco 6 off 16 149 Detroits and 1 -2.3 meg Wartsila They flew a fella out from Sweden to commission it when I asked about the oil slick from under he said no no tis good we packed up and left before it got to the pond Reminded me of LandRovers A fair bit of work for a two man install team


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Nice - there are a lot of mine sites that have huge diesel generation, much bigger than I've ever done, there are some corkers out there.

Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

If it was a Cummins They are probably waiting on a new card or transfer switch to come from Singapore Nice engines and alternators but the way they hang the rest together

Agreed - I used to work for them...

All our big gear (500KVA and up) is Cummins powered, but as mentioned previously we use Comap controllers on them - the Cummins stuff is either past it technically or the newer stuff is diabolical and Cummins try to hold too many secrets back so you can't program the units the way you want without paying for one of their techs. The Comap software (and deep sea too) is all free and easy to use.