Folks,

We're setting up a fancy data center, and part of it is having backup power. I got to see the generators fired up and running today. WOW is all I can say. I talked with the CAT maintenance person. Here are some of the specs (if I remember correctly)..

V-12 Cats, about 1500+ HP each (we have 2 + an empty bay for a third)
each produces somewhere around 1.5 Megawatts of power
80 gallons of oil per oil change
Dual 6000 gallon fuel tanks, switchable, with 3 filters per line

now for the real fun!

they are preheated to 180* 24x7

startup to full power in ....... 9 seconds.

We were in a hurry to get this data center setup so we "bought up" to get an earlier delivery. These are way oversized, but were at the right price.

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