Hey Alan - is that a 3600 RPM or 1800 RPM unit? Air cooled or water cooled? Mostly winter service or year round use?
At 1800 RPM that unit has 80K miles & at 3600 RPOM it has 160K miles. If 3600 RPM, air cooled and in a hot local & depending on the service/maintenance it has received it may be near the end of its life. There are too many factors to really determine without a mechanics investigation as to the health of their unit. It always perplexes me when people buy something used and then they feel it was misrepresented. Come on, it was used, and had 2000 hours on it, that is like a 40 hour work week for almost a year. The $ spent on the lawyer would fix the probably fix the unit...... Thanks Dana Orzel - Great Solar Works, Inc - E - [email protected] - V 970.626.5253 F - 970.626.4140 C - 970.209.4076 web - www.solarwork.com "Responsible Technologies for Responsible People since 1988" P Please consider the environment before printing this email From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Allan Sindelar Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 9:29 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Kohler 8.5 RMY question Wrenches, We sold and installed a few Kohler 8.5 and 11 RMY generators in the first half of the last decade. We found over the years that followed that they held up quite well, with very few problems if cared for. We have a customer whose off grid system we cared for for about a decade before she sold her property and moved on. The buyer, with whom I have never spoken, did little research on the property or the PV system before purchase, and is now dissatisfied with the system and has sued the seller. I have been asked to provide some history and guidance to the seller. The system includes an 8.5 RMY Kohler that, when the property was sold, had about 2,000 hours on it and was working well, I recall being told. The buyer has claimed, among other things, that it was "old and near the end of its service life." What kind of life have others seen from these units, and how have they held up in your experience? Thank you, Allan -- Allan Sindelar <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] NABCEP Certified Photovoltaic Installer NABCEP Certified Technical Sales Professional New Mexico EE98J Journeyman Electrician Positive Energy, Inc. 3201 Calle Marie Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507 505 424-1112 www.positiveenergysolar.com <http://www.positiveenergysolar.com/>
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