OK, this may not be strictly a lubrication question, but here goes:
The company I work for has recently decided that it wants us to exercise all the emergency generators for 1 hour per week, instead of the ½ hour we've been doing for years. Just about every diesel mechanic I've ever talked to, including some that work on big ships, and many that work on trucks and smaller marine engines and gensets, all say that running a diesel without a load for that period of time is not good for it on a regular basis (for technical reasons we can't run them under load unless there's an actual power failure).
Are there any old hands out there who can confirm this for me? I don't want to start a ruckus if I'm not on firm ground.
The company I work for has recently decided that it wants us to exercise all the emergency generators for 1 hour per week, instead of the ½ hour we've been doing for years. Just about every diesel mechanic I've ever talked to, including some that work on big ships, and many that work on trucks and smaller marine engines and gensets, all say that running a diesel without a load for that period of time is not good for it on a regular basis (for technical reasons we can't run them under load unless there's an actual power failure).
Are there any old hands out there who can confirm this for me? I don't want to start a ruckus if I'm not on firm ground.