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Brings back old memories! I simply love those old 15&30 KW gen sets!

I talked to people who ran gen sets down range just like we did on the missile site here. Start it. Turn on the load. Run it till it stops. Fix/or switch over to another. 99% of the time, when it stopped, it was ANYTHING, but wet stacking. You are NEVER going to see something like this one...

In the beginning they get a tad hot, yes. You don't want to walk in front of one spitting out embers. Not as exciting as a turbine eating itself up. But still got to be careful!

I have never seen any fires due to wet stacking. But have seen 45-60 KW gen sets not be about to pull 15-20% load, without dying in their tracks. We ran a lot more then 3000 hours a year on many sets. And the mess that runs out of the engines is most foul. We several times STARTED a fire...

Well, thats hard to say. But if I ran a gen set for a week or two at low loads, I would maybe think about hooking up a load bank or some type of load and run it for a few hours at as close to 100% load as I could. But its not all that critical. You are not going to kill your gen set. But I see...