I don’t know all of the details, mainly because it’s proprietary, but one of the companies that the company I work for has involvement in heavy equipment usage and maintenance. He shared with me that they have a fleet of Caterpillar equipment with 2500HP engines. Caterpillar brand oil isn’t exactly cheap, and the engines take around 55 gallons of oil each. These engines are generally in use 16-18 hours a day, 7 days a week in most cases, so hours pile up quickly. Think oil & gas industry, and you’ll be close.
This is all simply relaying what I was told, so take with a grain of salt… but since we’re not buying CAT equipment nor oil from this company (not even same industry), I see no reason why they’d not tell the truth in this instance.
CAT oil in this application was being changed at 400 hour intervals, so roughly every 3-3.5 weeks, verified using UOAs through Polaris to determine oil condemnation points. This equipment has been running HPL since mid-2017 on 2,000 hour OCIs and delivering UOAs extremely similar to the CAT oil at 400 hours!!
This is why I love BITOG and that HPL decided to advertise here- since many of these trials are proprietary with both company and product, us “plebes” never get to hear about the products that are really moving the needle since the company who ran the trial is seeking every performance edge against their competition. If not for anecdotal evidence and then the open discussion that HPL does provide both here on the board and in offline conversations, most of us would only ever know about the Big 3 oil manufacturers, and we’d never know something better existed.
This contact had nothing but praise for HPL across the board from their interactions, and also said they continue to use several other products from HPL with similar performance increases and reduced total cost of ownership.
I’ll continue to press and see if I can get a sanitized UOA report that can be shared- a 2500HP diesel UOA that equates to 3 months of round-the-clock use would be fascinating IMO!
This is all simply relaying what I was told, so take with a grain of salt… but since we’re not buying CAT equipment nor oil from this company (not even same industry), I see no reason why they’d not tell the truth in this instance.
CAT oil in this application was being changed at 400 hour intervals, so roughly every 3-3.5 weeks, verified using UOAs through Polaris to determine oil condemnation points. This equipment has been running HPL since mid-2017 on 2,000 hour OCIs and delivering UOAs extremely similar to the CAT oil at 400 hours!!
This is why I love BITOG and that HPL decided to advertise here- since many of these trials are proprietary with both company and product, us “plebes” never get to hear about the products that are really moving the needle since the company who ran the trial is seeking every performance edge against their competition. If not for anecdotal evidence and then the open discussion that HPL does provide both here on the board and in offline conversations, most of us would only ever know about the Big 3 oil manufacturers, and we’d never know something better existed.
This contact had nothing but praise for HPL across the board from their interactions, and also said they continue to use several other products from HPL with similar performance increases and reduced total cost of ownership.
I’ll continue to press and see if I can get a sanitized UOA report that can be shared- a 2500HP diesel UOA that equates to 3 months of round-the-clock use would be fascinating IMO!
