On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 08:34:29 am Dave wrote: > On 2/4/2011 3:36 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 4 February 2011 19:59, Dave<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Idling diesels without a load causes problems sometimes I understand. > > > > They always have some load, even if it is just internal friction. > > > > We leave diesel cars idling for hours (and, once, by mistake, over the > > weekend) with no ill effects. > > Andy, true but you work on those new fangled diesels controlled by > computers... You know, the ones we can't get in the states. :-( > > The old diesels with mechanical fuel injection didn't control the fuel > nearly as well as the new computer controlled engines, hence the wet > stacking issues on some of them. > > I've heard of some of them slobbering so badly that diesel would run out > the exhaust pipe joints. There can also be oil dilution issues. > > Dave Snipped
The biggest problem I've seen with lightly loaded diesels is bore glazing. It usually manifests as low power under test. I have no idea how modern common rail engines behave. My (small) experience is with older military aircraft ground power units (28VDC at 1000 amps, giddy up!!). Cheers, Geoff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
