Posted by Dean on October 01, 2017 at 07:02:05 from (68.50.160.151):
In Reply to: Standby generators posted by David G on September 30, 2017 at 19:22:19:
I have a 20KW Kohler whole-house backup gen set that is about four years old.
I programmed it to exercise for 20 minutes every other week (couldn't set it for less frequent exercises). The factory setting is each week but I find that wasteful of both fuel and run time. I nearly always turn it off every other 2 week exercise time so that it only exercises once each month.
We had one 23+ hour outage the same summer that I installed it and it ran for hours before I found out what caused the outage and when it would be back up. I then shut it down because I really did not need the power for the remainder of the expected outage.
My unit had a total of about 30 hours run and exercise time until I changed the controller this past spring. The battery charger is built into the controller and mine was overcharging the battery, causing a new DEKA $120 battery to fail in three years (just out of warranty). I swapped out the controller with a new model. In the process I had Kohler move all of my parameters from the old controller (which I kept) into the new controller. Everything made it except run time which was 0. It's now showing about 1 hour.
I change the engine oil and filter religiously each year.
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