Diesel Engine
We bought a new Motor Home with a Diesel engine in it. The question I have, we are at a park for the winter and I was wondering if I can run the engine for 15 minutes while parked, with the 50 amp pow...
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mchero wrote:
Hey Mike,
you might want to do some more research on your boat story.
I was on a 150 foot oceangoing tug to Singapore. We had some HUGE diesels!!! We had multiple storage tanks for the diesel fuel. We had a main tank called a "day tank".
When the day tank stared getting low the engineers would pump diesel from one of the many storage tanks into the day tank. Note that BEFORE the fuel was pumped into the main tank (day tank)the fuel was run through a device called a centrifuge. This centrifuge would separate and water\dirt\GROWTH before getting pumped into the day tank.
Can't be running through filters out in the middle of the ocean.
This was told to me by one of our station technicians. I don't know how the CCG ships are set up (again, not in my paygrade), but it could have been pre-centrifuge filters, or even the centrifuge itself. IT could also have been the ship service generators. I don't really know. All I know is, the captain of the vessel in question swore to never again take on fuel that had come from a mountain-top radio site.
But my point was/is, if you want to store any amount of diesel fuel for a long period of time, you should probably treat it with something to prevent algae growth and keep the moisture out. Older engines may not care a whole lot, but newer engines have such tight tolerances that any crud in the fuel will cause problems.
Cheers!
Mike
