generator - black soot out exhaust (diesel)
my diesel generator is putting out a black soot onto whereever the exhaust pipe is pointed. when camping it leaves a black circle on the ground. if parked at home on the street to colors the curb b...
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Retired JSO wrote:
Diesel smoke color
Good article. Thanks
That's all well and good, but when the diesel generator I was diagnosing would not run full RPM and pouring out acrid blue smoke on a cool day, I found the air filter had disintegrated due to being wet and was clogging the intake. Not enough air to burn the fuel being delivered.
Maybe, if it had run long enough to reach operating temperature the smoke would have turned black.
Having dealt with chipped diesel pickups and watching the black smoke roll when the extra fuel was being burned to create MO POWER, black smoke is indicative of a lot of fuel being burned.
Soot will always be a by-product of burning diesel fuel.
