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I’m thinking glowing red embers are pretty common when bringing these machines back online. I’ve seen it many times, and thought at first that I had pieces of piston rings blowing out the stack. The members here calmed my nerves and said that it’s pretty normal!
Our big Cats had their exhaust run through a low pressure fire tube boiler. Because they were always at 50% load, we never got and gooky deposits but we did get soot. We did an annual boiler inspection that included punching the tubes. Probably the closest I have ever got to hell while living.
That's a messy, messy job.
And hot. We wore Tyvek suits with respirators for the soot but the boilers were still hot. We had two vertical boilers and we had to stand inside them to punch the tubes. I wore Timberland steel toed works boots and the heat from the tube sheet would seep through the soles until we had to get out and cool off. We would do one boiler a week. Punch the tubes, check the controls, fix any bad refractory and replace the gasket materials. 7 boilers, 7 weeks. Not my favorite time of year!
That sounds like a great system. Sadly, being retired on a pretty much fixed income, it is way out of my reach. Looking at the components, it's almost twice what I paid for my 802. While I am electrically educated, having worked in a power plant for so many years and worked with 120 volts to 4160 volts, I'm not licensed so I'm sure I would have to get a licensed electrician to wire it up. Definitely if I had to pull a permit. Thanks for the suggestion though. On paper it makes total sense. The generator would be happy and my wife would be happy not knowing there even was a power failure!
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Pretty amazing! I wonder how long it ran to get that bad?
I'm not sure about my town. When I built my addition, a friend of mine and co-worker, pulled the permit. He and I went over what I wanted and what the codes dictated. I did most of the wiring and he stopped by to check my work. Because of that, inspection was a breeze. It never entered my mind to inquire if I could have done it by myself.
By the looks of it, I assume a CO tasked it solely with charging a battery powered toothbrush its entire 500 run hours.
Add some grape cool aid, and I’ll bet you can eradicate every raccoon, skunk and possum within a three mile radius with that!
You're probably right. Wow. The only engine I've seen close to that was a no start chainsaw. Fuel spark, compression. Pulled the muffler and it was clogged solid. The spark arrestor screen just caught all the oily mix. Never seen a diesel with anything but soot in the exhaust.
I'm licensed in NH as a PE. So if you need something reviewed & stamped to get the inspectors off your back just holler. (No charge to service members ever). They love to make homeowners jump thru hoops. I've taken the "homeowners electrical exam" for the rewiring of my house service when I was in New Mexico. The electrical inspector-director was pissed I aced the 50 question test He made me take in his conference room. (He didn't know I was a PE). Idiot.
That's some good dietary fiber
That's awesome Matthew. Thank you!
