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Maintenance
Introduction
This section outlines maintenance procedures for your WhisperGen. It will show you how to:
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Develop a basic maintenance routine for the WhisperGen;
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Maintain the fuel and coolant systems;
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Check the battery bank connections; and
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Replace the glow plug, fuses, FID, oxygen sensor, and evaporator.
Maintenance Schedule
The following maintenance procedures must be performed on the WhisperGen on a regular basis
as recommended below:
In addition to the procedures above, you should also contact your authorised WhisperGen service
agent to check the WhisperGen every 12 months or every 2000 hours of operating time.
Procedure
How
When
Checking the coolant.
See section - Checking the
Coolant.
Depends on the coolant circuit;
at least once a month.
Checking battery bank
connections.
See section - Checking battery
bank connections.
Every three months.
General checking.
See section - General
checking.
Every six months.
Flushing the exhaust heat
exchanger
See section - Flushing the
exhaust heat exchanger
Every three months.
You should read and understand all safety precautions before
operating or maintaining your WhisperGen. For spare parts kit
supplied, refer to your authorised WhisperGen service agent for
further details.
Before carrying out maintenance, the Enable Starts option in the
Installation Menu should be set to 0 to prevent unintentional starts of
the WhisperGen. Reset to either 1 or 2 (depending on the user setting
requirement) after maintenance has been completed. For information
on how to edit settings, refer to section entitled Displaying System
Information - Editing Parameter Settings.
If service checks are not performed by an authorised WhisperGen
service agent every 12 months or 2000 hours of operating time from
the date of commissioning, the warranty on the WhisperGen will be
void.
When performing any maintenance work on the WhisperGen, refer to
the applicable sections when removing or replacing parts and
stopping or starting the WhisperGen.
