How I spent my Saturday Morning

[Fine69]

Heres how I spent my Saturday morning. The block wall in the picture is 22 feet tall. The generator is rated at 480 Volts/ 3000 Amps. Its a 16 cylinder Mitsubishi diesel that weighs 44,000 lbs. The radiator is over 10 feet tall! The pictures of the crane with the boom fully extended were taken after we set a 22 ton drycooler on the roof of the 13 story brick building in the background. This whole job is backup power for The University of Pittsburgh's Data Center.

 

[Crumm]

Nice little Generator I have one just like it in my shop but it only has two cylinders and is a little smaller - still burns diesel though.

 

[Zookie400]

with a really big shoehorn that will fit under your hood

 

[bushpilot]

tell 'em to buy some vmware and
they wouldnt need so much power !

 

[BamaSixGun]

Very cool Bob, thanks for sharing the pics.

 

[Fine69]

tell 'em to buy some vmware and
they wouldnt need so much power !

This new generator is actually the fifth generator powering this site, in addition to 2 different power company electrical services, and 3 different UPS systems totalling over 3000KVA of backup power.

 

[platinum01]

Cool pics, that is a big generator.

 

[dpantazis]

how did you rig that? it looks like pieces of pipe thru the frame. what keeps the pipe from sliding through the holes?

 

[Fine69]

The pipes are 4" rigid metal conduit. The steel chokers were so tight we had problems just getting them over the pipes. With the couplings on the ends of the pipes, we had no chance of the chokers coming off. We use this method just about everytime we set a generator. Works like a charm! I also forgot to say, this generator has a 4000 gallon fuel tank, and 4 turbo's! The muffler uses 18" pipe for the exhaust! Once the muffler is installed, and insulated, I'll get more pics. We had to use a smaller crane to unload the muffler off the truck when it came.

 

[silverF250]

I have been up close to some of those generators and man are they awesome. You need to get a video of when they test fire them bad boys up.