Ottawa Area
Lister CS clone, 10 Hp with a 5 KW head... works great
Did you get your CS clone local? I was at Jim's place (just live off grid.com) in Norwood Ontario, about 2 years ago, had a great supply of CS clone and gen head ( it's where I bought my gen head) Great guy to deal with and lots of help. I see he's selling Laidong diesel engine know too....don't know anything about them , but look well built.
My Lister generator is , a Lister SR2 (if I remember right a 1972??) with a 10KW head, was going to run a 7.5KW head, but was told to get a 10, because you'll only every uses 80% of the available power anyways, with the Lister.
I live off grid total, and the inverter I have will let me dial my generator back to what ever percentage of power I want my battery bank to take at one time. It's set at 70% of max power out put.
When I bought my Lister , I wanted a CS, or a CS clone...but the money just wasn't there to do so, and that's when I came across the SR2 and it was too good to give up....the guy didn't know what he had... :-) lucky for me!!
It was a low hour motor , used as a compressor , for a back up generator,(big unit) that had an air starter...so basically an air starter...?? Anyways $400.00 and it was mine!! SR2,with air compressor on the mounting plate. It had sat outside for about a years, covered, and was thought to be seized. It turn out to be the compressor head ,that was seized, water had got into it and rusted up the valves...Lister was perfect!!
Anyways that's my long story...short :-)
Coupled a 10KW head, by mins of a double chain coupler and it been running ever since.
I'm in need of some gaskets, just started leaking, the o rings ( or d rings) the ones for around the push rods and maybe some valve cover gaskets. I see Dieselman has them on his web site.
On my to do list, before the small leak, turns into a river.
I ran gas generators for years....burnt 3 of them up, just the cheap ones form farm supply shops, and one Honda EM5000( I still have the Honda, still runs, but low on compression)Uses it /keep it as a back up...just in case.
If I would have bought a Lister up front, the fuel savings alone would have paid for the Lister!! , But being new to off grid living at the time...didn't help.
Cheers
Brian