- 400
- 23
- 18
- Location
- Healdton Oklahoma/ SOOK
A few fellow SS members and I were talking about generator sizing, which ended up in discussion about wet stacking by not keeping enough load on gen to keep exhaust valve hot enough to keep sludge from building up.
My question for the group is would it be feasible or even make a difference if you were to swap out thermostat with a higher range to keep engine temps up higher at lower loads? My 802 runs about 180 degrees at full load give or take.
I know the best thing is to size gen to load but the 802's 5kw is best small unit, the 831 on market now might be better sized for a lot of applications, but are flakey and I believe will have inverter failure at some point as the capacitors age, just nature of beast. In my industry we change out caps at about 5-7 years due to failure rates. That being said using 802 to run RV only loads to about 30%, so hence this discussion.
Thoughts?
My question for the group is would it be feasible or even make a difference if you were to swap out thermostat with a higher range to keep engine temps up higher at lower loads? My 802 runs about 180 degrees at full load give or take.
I know the best thing is to size gen to load but the 802's 5kw is best small unit, the 831 on market now might be better sized for a lot of applications, but are flakey and I believe will have inverter failure at some point as the capacitors age, just nature of beast. In my industry we change out caps at about 5-7 years due to failure rates. That being said using 802 to run RV only loads to about 30%, so hence this discussion.
Thoughts?