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I agree with you its ingrained in us mechanics. Although a turbo does have tremendous heat in it. I've worked on a mess of other commercial generators [and diesel trucks/equip]and like you said they start at load rated RPM which kills me, however they have block heaters that stayed plugged in...

This is interesting, Although I don't really let anything idle for extended periods of time, hot diesels will cool down at idle. I even looked in TM and best I can see, it says nothing about slowing the unit down before shutting off. It just says shut breaker off and turn switch off. Not to hi...