Have a Kipor KDE 6700 diesel generator, bought it new about 5 years ago. It ran fine for awhile. Now when I try to start it, it starts but then shuts off immediately. Any suggestions on what may be the issue?
Around the crankcase of the engine there will be an low oil cut off switch, to see if it is faulty just remove the wire and tape it up, now try and start it. Could also be air in the fuel, have you changed the fuel filter recently?. Not much to go wrong with a simple diesel engine. cheers blaze
Oh No! My Kipor died on me after 9 hours work at Greens Lake...It was put down too Carbon build up and cleaned The spark plug..was a mess.......The boys at Greens Lake helped me as best they could But I had to take it back to Shepparton for repairs......Must say I am worried down the track aout it happening again...After the twelve Months warranty runs out...Bunnings Shepparton watch out
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Oh No! My Kipor died on me after 9 hours work at Greens Lake...It was put down too Carbon build up and cleaned The spark plug..was a mess.......The boys at Greens Lake helped me as best they could But I had to take it back to Shepparton for repairs......Must say I am worried down the track aout it happening again...After the twelve Months warranty runs out...Bunnings Shepparton watch out
Jimbo
Once a week run your generator fully loaded for an hour or so. Plug a hairdryer or heater on it and work it hard, they will always carbon up if not worked hard
Oh No! My Kipor died on me after 9 hours work at Greens Lake...It was put down too Carbon build up and cleaned The spark plug..was a mess.......The boys at Greens Lake helped me as best they could But I had to take it back to Shepparton for repairs......Must say I am worried down the track aout it happening again...After the twelve Months warranty runs out...Bunnings Shepparton watch out
This was the result of running a Generator for long periods with a small load. It actualy got to a point of not being turned past TDC. The owner now runs a larger load after de carbonising. This was a Homelite 1100watt. I have a Kipor 2600Watt geny & it is always run with at least 500W load to avoid this hapening, its now about 4Yrs old .
This was the instructions with my generator & i did exacly what it sugest to do. Run for 20 Hrs aprox with over 50% load. In my case a 1800Watt heater to bed the ring in. If you havent done this you can expect more trouble.
When I was gainfully (?) employed we had installations with diesel generators (usually around 35 KVA) that were run under load once a week for long enough for the unit to come up to operating temperature and to stabilise. They were fitted with time-out devices to prevent them shutting down early. In some cases "dummy" loads (oil bath cooled resistors) were needed to provide the test load. Daryl (DeBe) achieves the same with his 1800 watt heater.
PS: Welcome to the forum, I hope it gives you the information you need. Just a hint, there is also a "Techies Corner" forum as part of this site where topics such as this tend to "last longer" and not get buried under new topics as quickly as here
cheers,
Jim
-- Edited by jimricho on Sunday 13th of November 2011 07:59:18 AM
