For that price you can by two units plus spare parts strip total rebuild paint and still have money.
Peter,
That is very easy to say, and completely wrong.
Even if you were talking about vanilla Lister Gensets, your statement would not be true.
But these machines are not vanilla Indian Lister Gensets. There is a significant amount of bespoke engineering gone into them, and all that costs money.
Here are a few of the differences between these gensets and the vanilla Indian Lister Genset:-
1) No Listeroid manufacturer offers a multi-speed engine. None of them will offer a warranty on one engine being capable of runnng happily, safely and efficiently at both 400rpm and 1000rpm (and several speeds inbetween).
2) No Listeroid manufacturer provides a mechanism to set the throttle at these different speeds, other than supply you with different governor springs. Lovson were however, willing to develop a mechanism.
3) No Listeroid manufacturer provides a solenoid mechanism for automating the fuel shut-off.
4) Without the automated mechanism for stopping the engine, no other manufacturer offers Listeroid Gensets with comprehensive control panels.
5) No Listeroid manufacturer guarantees their engines are free from casting sand. Under the contract for the manufacture of these gensets, Vidhata starts with cast parts that are free from paint, filler, and then they proceed to steam clean them before assembly and painting. I have photos of each stage of manufacture proving that there is nowhere for the sand to hide.
6) No manufacturer makes any measurement or adjustments of the injector trigger pressure, and most don't even accurately set the fuel timing and valve clearances - something that has to be done to ensure these engines can cope with the different speeds.
7) The crankshaft and flywheels are dynamically balanced - to help with high speed running.
8 ) Top quality components have been used throughout, including highly durable water pumps and radiators.
9) The alternators are also very good quality. They are part permanet magnet to ensure that the alternator will always self excite. They also have a good overload capacity. They are far superior to Chinese ST types.
10) There are many little extras like sump magnets and a cartridge type oil bypass filter.
11) These gensets are sold as multi-fuel machines. The price includes all the extra components required to run the engine reliably and efficiently on vegoil, including:- a replacement COV plug machined and fitted with an automotive diesel glowplug, two PTC (self regulating) heaters on the high pressure fuel line, one band heater for the fuel filter, and a coolant/fuel flat plate heat exchanger. The control of the heaters is integrated into the control panel.
12) It has an upgraded exhaust muffler.
13) You get a Volvox Engineering 2 year (5000 hour) warranty.
I may have missed out some features, and I may be a little out of date on what some manufaturers are offering, but my point is simple. You do get plenty for your money. Perhaps I should have just attached a brochure.
Hope this helps,
Mark
