My search for info on this topic has been mostly fruitless, and I am hoping somebody here can enlighten me.
I bought a house with an 11 year old, 25kW, water-cooled, natural gas, Generac generator. The manual for the machine says oil should be 15W-40 with API CC, SD, SD, SF. Of course, those are old, obsolete classifications.
We have few power interruptions here, so most often the machine runs a few minutes each week on an automatic maintenance cycle. (It ran more than that only once in the last 8 months, running for a few hours when a car hit a nearby utility pole). Of course, when a hurricane comes, it will likely be asked to run continuously for several days.
I did find in the auto-related forum info on oils for smaller, air-cooled generators, but many of the reasons provided for the oils recommended there don't seem to apply to this situation. Can somebody recommend what oils I should consider for this application. Any information on why those particular oils are recommended would go a long way towards taking me from ignorant to informed, and would be hugely appreciated!
Thank you,
Mike
Pensacola, Florida
I bought a house with an 11 year old, 25kW, water-cooled, natural gas, Generac generator. The manual for the machine says oil should be 15W-40 with API CC, SD, SD, SF. Of course, those are old, obsolete classifications.
We have few power interruptions here, so most often the machine runs a few minutes each week on an automatic maintenance cycle. (It ran more than that only once in the last 8 months, running for a few hours when a car hit a nearby utility pole). Of course, when a hurricane comes, it will likely be asked to run continuously for several days.
I did find in the auto-related forum info on oils for smaller, air-cooled generators, but many of the reasons provided for the oils recommended there don't seem to apply to this situation. Can somebody recommend what oils I should consider for this application. Any information on why those particular oils are recommended would go a long way towards taking me from ignorant to informed, and would be hugely appreciated!
Thank you,
Mike
Pensacola, Florida