Technical topics

A power generator is the backbone of your industrial facility, business, or home in the event of a power outage. It’s important to make sure your facility has proper preventative maintenance to avoid the occurrence of potential failures at the time of greatest need.

In this article we will explain the importance of a generator preventive maintenance, how to do correct preventive maintenance on your generator and what to do if your generator fails in a time of need.

In this article we are going to review the 11 most common causes of generator failure and what to do to solve them.

We will look into the procedures for the review and the analysis of typical failures of an industrial-type electric generator, although they can be perfectly applied to smaller generators, since the operating principles of a generator are the same for all sizes.

Since a repair of a generator set (for example of 500 KW) can be costly, it pays off to have all the knowledge and skills necessary to deal with a failure and recognize, which generator failure symptoms require us to hire specialized support, and which can be resolved by internal personnel available in your company.

Generators have experienced a notable increase in the scope of the loads that need to be served. Capacitive loads and transformers becoming more prevalent amid growth of the data services industry.

Read this article and find out how transferring loads on standby generators systems.

In the following article we share with you two very interesting episodes of Kohler’s “CriticalPowerCast” podcast series.

Both episodes take a look at the work of Cleaning up the Generator Specs, based on the work of Dave Schuh, leader of Kohler Power’s Technical Solutions Group (episode 1) and Nicole Dierksheide of Kohler Power Systems marketing team (episode 2).

In the first episode Dave speak about your alternator section and some “hot topics” that Dave runs into regularly as the leader of Kohler Power’s Technical Solutions Group. In the second episode Nicole dives a bit deeper into the controller section.