2 MW Open Skid Sounds Amazing During Load Bank Test (91773)

[@craigspector-howell2669]

Outstandig video, totally did the start up, then the money shot when it's loaded up and finally, what most genset videos don't have, is the shutdown with the turbos still spinning!! excellent video!!!

[@midwest_model_railroad]

I got a Predator just like this at Harbor Freight.

[@captainawesome5560]

Must have been the same one I got from there during there Black Friday sale. 😎 I got the red and black model though 🤣

[@brian8410]

Did it break the bank?

[@dwightsmith5174]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@crandonborth]

Did it black smoke and the turbos spool up too when plugging in a refrigerator?? 😂

[@vincentrobinette1507]

I don't know if I have the strength to pull-start this...Does it have compression relief? If so, maybe I can use a hand crank.😄😄

[@MadScientistsLair]

I used to work at what would be now considered a "small" datacenter in downtown Dallas. It ran at around 7MW average load from around 5000 servers. We had six similar generators plus a swing spare that could take over any one of the six. It sounded and smelled like a train yard when it ran. Opportunities to hear, smell and feel the beasts run were numerous. There were weekly tests, numerous storms, and for a time, we participated in "LaaRs" or Loads as a Resource. Basically, in a grid emergency, the utility would send us the LaaRs signal and we'd cut over to diesel power and disappear off of the grid to help prevent rolling blackouts.

[@jeffhoogkamer]

Interesting about the LaaRs - did the utility compensate you for going off the grid, or is that just part of being a larger customer?

[@MadScientistsLair]

@@jeffhoogkamer I was told we got a cheaper rate. I'm not sure why the facility stopped participating in the program. I suspect it was more down to corporate policy of our new owner than any technical reason. Technically speaking, any time we operate a transfer switch, we expose the loads to risk and this DC's new owner at the time was famously risk averse.

[@stewarts7227]

@@MadScientistsLair I worked at a ski resort in NW Maine that was pretty remote, so the newer lifts had full-power auxiliary diesels with a tertiary backup for actual evacuations (either a small aux engine, or a hydraulic hookup to run it off a snowcat). They had a variable rate with the power company, so to save money during peak days, they’d disconnect the electric drives and run the big diesels. Imagine going on vacation and waking up hungover in your condo to the sound of 3 tugboat engines going full-bore at 6am 😂

[@skunkjobb]

@@stewarts7227 That would be a lovely wake up call.

[@Chrylgirl]

Was that the “GTOger” lot?

[@charlesgilbert7432]

I had two of these installed in 2007 at the company I worked for located in Baton Rouge, LA. Both are fully enclosed and have bi-fuel capability. They are used as backup power for the entire campus. Absolute beasts.... reliable and powerful, supplying 15 KV power to the internal electrical distribution system.

[@BlackJackMiller5]

We have a pair of these units at my workplace for backup power. Truly impressive machines.

[@Cannyfannypack]

I bet y’all kinda wish the power would go out so y’all can hear this thing startup

[@BlackJackMiller5]

@AutWes it's always a great time when we transfer to the generators. Whole maintenance crew comes out to listen to the fuckers sing.

[@jamesrepper]

Same but two of these things can only run my place in emergency power only. We have two 250 gal tanks n two 100 gal reserve. We can run for about 38hrs before we need fuel. Our lines from the city are 26,400v

[@ghost307]

Biggest I ever installed was 4 2,500 MW in parallel to power a municipal water pumping station.

[@christinoumel2291]

I work for a telecommunications company. My building has a 750 KW backup generator. They brought in a portable backup generator for us to hookup as training. It was a Caterpillar 1 MW . I watched the RPMs on it when they transferred the building. It acted like it wasn’t even there. Impressive.

[@Nathan0A]

The flywheel is massive! Cool seeing it go full rich when load came on and then clean up after the turbos got going. Seems like you could improve the transient load efficiency of these units by switching to water-air intercoolers to reduce the charge piping volume, then electric turbo as the 2nd stage of a compound arrangement to e-boost fast load ramps. Would only need 100-200kw or so electric compressor to get the mass flow in 1/10th the time.

[@wtmayhew]

Still a baby with only 7:hours on the clock! It is surprising how compact the 2 MW alternator is compared to the bulk of the 16 cylinder Diesel turning the shaft. Lovely Diesel wind-up and wind-down sound too. Thanks.

[@acert625vortex7]

It's a beautiful sound, beautiful machine😍😍😍

[@gregguerrero9441]

Gotta love those big Cats!

[@itsaRiot]

I worked in a gravel pit that had a 3512 I believe and that thing would tell you all about it when the plant was fired up. (Largest crusher in Montana) Super cool video!

[@laundrieshanging9077]

What part of MT?

[@itsaRiot]

@laundrieshanging9077 it was mostly in eastern Mt but all over. I started in Bozeman and they would go to pits all over

[@finn_h06]

Damn, that thing has a lot of power wow

[@patrickshaw8595]

Niiiiiice ! Pure Function ! A BRAND NEW CLASSIC.

[@johnmowrer1359]

Gotta love a 3516!

[@BackyardBeeKeepingNuevo]

Wow! That Cat can sure “Roll Coal!” 🚂

[@LoveMyZJ]

Love hearing those turbos spool up 🤘

[@hoofhearted3567]

Had four of these on my last offshore vessel. 👍⚓️😁🛠

[@swordknight278]

Amazing sound

[@ectolle54]

I built those for 5 years. 3600 Cat i put everything on it from a long block to a running engine except the oil pan. A piston and rod weighs 350 lbs in one and is over 11 inches in diameter

[@cadillacnan]

Holy cow..that's impressive

[@nathanfisher4452]

I was a facilities engineer and had to run up like 8 of these a week. Big, and LOUD. And they were in the penthouses of 15 story lab buildings. They’re pretty cool. We had diesel and natural gas.

[@jimc0090]

Now that's a unit!

[@computername]

2 MW, at ca. 35% efficiency will consume ~550L Diesel per hour (770L @25%). Not sure of the overall efficiency of these but as a ballpark figure, makes you realize what the injection system has to put through

[@skunkjobb]

I think it can be a bit over 40 %. I tested a Jenbacher gas engine (that's gas as real gas, not gasoline) with 527 kW generator output and the overall efficiency fuel-->el. was 41 %. A larger engine with (probably) higher compression ratio should be a bit better than tat. But yeah, still a lot of fuel.

[@acersalman8258]

Beautiful machines ❤

[@gharker55]

Nice to see its a no smoke start 😂

[@ZainmalikMalikone]

Turbo is great sound

[@stephenmiddleton2340]

Best video for ages

[@4some2joe0]

I remember the electrical tie-in we did for a new 37 floor building in downtown Los Angeles back in 2011

[@jimdandy7772]

Excellent Excellent!!!!!!

[@billyd7882]

Impressive machine

[@shaneyamaha450]

Guy on the other side plugs in his phone to charge 🤣

[@rickh925]

It probably only has 0.5A USB-A ports.

[@SH00T_TH3PUMP]

According to google, 2 megawatts can run roughly 400, to 1800 homes. 2MW is 2 million watts. That is unreal how much power that thing makes.

[@jonchilds1637]

Google talks crap! Houses in the UK have 100A service fuses. At 230V, that’s 23kW. In practice, you’d rarely use more than 10kW so that’s 200 homes.

[@ItsMeWanja]

My electric water boiler alone needs 24kW...

[@ldarrow221]

​@@ItsMeWanja your electric boiler pulls 100 amps??

[@majkosk8x]

​@@ItsMeWanjamy need 2.4kW

[@btrswt35]

Yeah, could power a small community

[@supersst838]

of course my truck needs a dpf so it can counter one of a million of these sets doing a test run somwhere every few hours

[@ianmyott7827]

What kind of load bank is that connected too

[@raylrodr]

That would stress the suspension of my 2500HD.

[@fardreaming]

Was that a cold start, or is the block heated?

[@bigdaddy3662]

I have one of these and after it warms up I touch the negative and positive output wires together to make sure it's working

[@gahbah274]

...

[@steveallen1340]

Sorry I have to do it…. Will it fit my Honda civic?

[@Jamwcjconn]

Your Honda civic would fit in this engine 😊

[@shinenwga7784]

Would love to pair it with an 18 speed/3:43 rears 😛

[@Diablo12369510]

These are so loud too. I use to weld fuel pipe for these for a company that built sound dampening enclosures and switch rooms

[@ASUSfreak]

The town I came from has 12 transfo's of 250kW, so 3MW for about 3.500 people. And that is 3MW if the transfo's are giving it's max capacity lol. Where I work, we count about 3 amps per home (at 3N400V grid) to calculate the transfo needed in that area hehehe... so this generator could handle my whole town with ease... crazy...

[@vincentrobinette1507]

How many kWh will this produce, per gallon of fuel? What is the optimum load, for maximum efficiency?

[@johnnyholland8765]

God what a monster...

[@Fleetwoodjohn]

Do the valves open to let her freewheel when shutting down? Sounds like it spins for a while after it’s cut off? What a beast. CATERPILLAR 🚜😎

[@timthompson2578]

Looks just like the generator sets made at Power solution international. Ran a brake press forming up parts to make the enclosure.

[@rodertera]

How many watts are consumed permanently spinning that big old radiator fan?

[@ZainmalikMalikone]

Catter.pillar is great

[@Redmallard]

How much horsepower does it make?

[@maesse]

750 watt = 1 HP theoretically, so at 2 MW that should be 2666 HP + real life inefficiencies, my guess is it's over 3000 HP

[@albinklein7680]

​@@maesseit depends on the duty class of the Genset. A continuous duty Genset with 1,000 KVA has an engine rated at about 2,000 SAE net horsepower.

[@Wa3ypx]

My town has three CAT diesel generators. Not this big! Theyre like the size of locomotive engines and mounted in connex boxes. During peak time in summer, they cut off from the power company and run on these. Damn the heat that comes off of them.

[@someguy5035]

Them turbskis coming down sounds like a 747.

[@cahek_s10h46]

Электричество для Греты Тумберг 😂

[@briangiller5253]

HOW DARE YOU!

[@timbur2711]

brother how much oil does this hold

[@crandonborth]

Depends on the oil pan configuration… the 69L 3516 holds around 120 gallons

[@100pyatt]

Instant on hot water heaters in homes can be up to 28kw themselves

[@dirtmcgirt168]

Depends where you are located, but very rare to see one installed that big around here. Can’t imagine it’s a huge issue to deal with worldwide when more people just have heat pump hot water these days.

[@jcims]

2MW is ~2600HP at the bank, wonder what it is at the crank.

[@ableelectric3106]

3500 hp at the crank. Rotational losses are between 15-20 percent depending on the rad fan

[@PatelAjay-kp4ue]

👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@Saki630]

nVidia getting extreme with the 5090ti power draw under full load 125% limit

[@3ffrige]

Holy god….let’s look at that 2MW AC load now, shall we? What AC load handles that large of a load? Something from Keysight or something??

[@albinklein7680]

I worked for an equipment rental company as a technician 30 years ago and we had a large (about 5,000 gallons) tank full of water to load test our big gensets.

[@JohnThomas-lq5qp]

Big cats are bullet proof. We had over a dozen 2 Megawatt Diesel Cats.

[@ableelectric3106]

The 3600 and 3500 series are decent, C-175's not so much...

[@jdksynthetics]

How often do backup generators get their fluids changed?

[@albinklein7680]

I worked as a technician for large gensets in the 1990s and our company had no schedules for oil changes. We took engine oil samples every couple of months and sent them away to a specialist lab for analysis.

[@jdksynthetics]

@@albinklein7680 That makes good sence. I also work with my customers with over the road trucks on sampling vs changing at a set interval. It saves them a ton of money over the year. They can run a premium product and still come out money ahead 👍

[@sethwatson8952]

Damn. How much Dino juice does that thing drink an hour at full load?

[@albinklein7680]

@@sethwatson8952 about 150 gallons

[@kleetus92]

Sounds.... like a open car window at 100 mph

[@slosher42]

I have no use for it but I want one.

[@tdhartman]

I want one.

[@AmraphelofShinar]

Can I get one of these straight piped? I really hate my neighbors.

[@justlim4467]

1800 Rpm full power ??

[@stanpatterson5033]

1800 rpm is rated full load speed, because the need to turn the generator at that constant speed to maintain the electrical load at proper frequency. These engines could probably handle a bit more speed, but my personal opinion is that 1800 is enough. If you can't get what you need from 1800 rpm engine speed, then get a different motor like an old 2-stroke Detroit Diesel that will happily spin faster, or get gearing to bring the rpm's to what you need. For longevity, 1800 rpms from these types of engines will yield great expectations.

[@swordknight278]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@KN-ff5rn]

What you asking for that unit?

[@geoffreygraham290]

1.2 million us dollars was my price but it came with an enclosure

[@EstorilEm]

Is that big black pipe for an intercooler? Seems way too big for water but then again, it’s massive… Wow, so badass to see that thing respond to having a few hundred homes worth of load just dumped on it in a second. 😂😦

[@AngryManSki]

If it doesn’t have USB-C, and Bluetooth, I don’t want it 😂

[@عطرالكلام-ن2ج]

😘😘😘👍

[@wolf7458]

I think it's fit on mazda miata

[@alabamamotionpictureproduc6626]

Okay, now how are we going to swap this into my f350?

[@pennise]

If the sound of a CAT firing off doesn't bring a smile to your face, there's something terribly wrong with you.

[@kriscalverley2131]

Electric start generator. Love the black smoke. Powers up six electric cars, so they can feel smug ,not hurting environment. Oe of these in California desert, for electric car charging station. Perfect.still need diesel

[@Gus1966-c9o]

Ok Einstein

[@JC-tn8zh]

Did you know that a diesel engine is most efficient in this application?

[@kriscalverley2131]

@JC-tn8zh or just drive a normal car as it's redundant to run diesel gen to boost a little car. Mind numbing. All alaska hwy, propane generators to boost electric cars. So fuel truck delivers propane, mile 0 to whitehorse is 2800 kms one way. We ain't saving planet by electric

[@maxwellbutler4184]

Dude what

[@lawnmowerdude]

Was someone in an electric car mean to you? If you like this type of machinery they you should love it right? You do realize that those electric cars likely spend most of their time running off of renewable resources. So what if one fast charge stop is run by a diesel generator if it means an electric car can meet the needs of someone and can run on other cleaned sources the majority of the time. You sound like these 100% or 0% people where if something isn’t 100% one way it’s not worth doing.

[@LygerTheCLaw]

this bad boy will charge 1 Tesla per hour.

[@agordianknot]

If it ain't a Cat, it must be a dog.

[@crandonborth]

When I win the lottery, I’ll keep it subtle but other may notice my toys… 😂

[@LM90MTL]

Turbines can produce more power then that at the same size

[@Bryan-Hensley]

Takes too long to come up to power for emergency power situations.

[@roadrider04]

I need that for my engine swap in my pickup. Might be a little front heavy.😂

[@jeremyjanssen1512]

Split cycle engine

[@captainotto]

Hey guys can anyone here help me engine swap this into my Prius?

[@ahfreebird]

Prius traction battery could probably start this thing. Probably...

[@shhmule]

Shame your mobile phone micrphone wasn't designed to record this. Next time try a studio microphone.

[@mattt198654321]

How dare you

[@justcallmejohn2833]

These are just for backup, too inefficient for electric generation.

[@onedayiwillmakesomecontent]

Sounds "amazing " like a leaf blower.

[@cj691]

Upgrade that GSC. Eww

[@Ksl73010]

Too bad it wasn’t an air starter. Love hearing those fire up

[@cadillacnan]

Love internal combustion...

[@basiliohernandez5111]

I can see this as a 3000 amp engine drive welder. I would use it to run ⅛" 7018.