All fuel oil sold in US is low sulphur. How can you share on and off road as same product when one is dyed? Fuel oil, Off road and on road are all different products. Some dealers may sell off road and fuel oil as same product but in cold climates that ain't going to work out to well when fuel oil congealsNot true here. Legally, number 2 fuel oil has a lower cetane, worse cleanliness spec, higher cloud point, and wider lubricity spec than ULSDon road fuel.
From a practical standpoint, all of our local distributors simple sell the same fuel as on road, off road, and home heating oil because of storage and tankage issues.
I think that’s the case through most of the country.
Fuel oil has largely fallen out of favor as a heating fuel, so it makes sense for the distribution network to commonize product.
The most GJ way is to get a big 3 phase diesel generator to run some machine tools from and just use it as backup in case of power cuts. I actually know someone who did that here in the UK as it was far cheaper than getting the large 3 phase supply they needed.
it's the same stuff man. They all fill up at the same fuel depot. It's not worth the effort to bring in two different, nearly identical product. It's all ulsd. #2 fuel oil gets dyed, on-road diesel does not.
As i said earlier in this thread, we've been renting a 200kw diesel generator right from one of the biggest cat dealers in the northeast. We use their fueling service. Every monday a home heating oil truck shows up and pumps 200 gallons of red dyed #2 fuel oil into that generator. You better tell the cat dealer that they've voided their own warranty...
Ah yes, a cheap and nasty chinese diesel generator is just what i want for a backup generator.
Around here most HHO tanks are inside. The ones that are outside mostly are for mobile homes, and the oil companies normally will fill it once with oil, then the next time with kerosene to keep it from gelling.All fuel oil sold in US is low sulphur. How can you share on and off road as same product when one is dyed? Fuel oil, Off road and on road are all different products. Some dealers may sell off road and fuel oil as same product but in cold climates that ain't going to work out to well when fuel oil congeals
Nope, not them.hopenn?
It's the same stuff man. They all fill up at the same fuel depot. It's not worth the effort to bring in two different, nearly identical product. It's all ULSD. #2 fuel oil gets dyed, on-road diesel does not.
As I said earlier in this thread, we've been renting a 200KW Diesel generator right from one of the biggest CAT dealers in the Northeast. We use their fueling service. Every Monday a home heating oil truck shows up and pumps 200 gallons of red dyed #2 fuel oil into that generator. You better tell the CAT dealer that they've voided their own warranty...
Ah yes, a cheap and nasty Chinese diesel generator is just what I want for a backup generator.
I literally talked to the delivery guy. He said it's the exact same fuel they put in houses. It's not even the same home heating oil company every time. Just whatever local company is available at the time. Reality doesn't fit with your narrative.
Why not just run a VFD?
The guy has bigger kit in his home shop than many actual engineering shops, rebuilds steam engines for fun. When one of our pallet forks got bent we took it there and he bent them back on his 100 ton hydraulic press, VFD's are not cheap once you get big and need a lot of them. He could have got a 3 phase supply but they are expensive to have when you only use the power some of the time.