Actually, some do. Hospitals and government buildings are required by code to have a minimum amount of fuel on site based on full load consumption over a fixed period of time.
I saw plenty of places in my day that had large fuel supplies, mainly because the tanks were cheap at the time of construction or the specifying engineer though that "more must be better!" The major problem with large volumes of diesel is keeping it stable over long periods of time. If you think getting algae in your MB tank is a mess, try the same in a 10,000 gallon tank. It spreads rapidly, and in a matter of days will destroy the system and do some major damage to the fuel system if it isn't caught and remediated before running the unit. Not a pretty sight to see, and VERY expensive to fix. Dan Sent from my iPhone On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:14 PM, "Allan Streib" <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 3:05 PM, "Dan Penoff" <lwb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> The definition of standby service uses the phrase "for the duration of >> the outage." >> >> No time frame is specified. > > But one is assumed... most people don't put 10,000 gallon fuel tanks > on their standby generators to cover the case of the power being out > for a year. > > Allan > -- > 1983 300D > 1979 300SD > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
