Chat & Social > The Bar - General Chat

Trouble starting your diesel?

<< < (2/4) > >>

TDi90:
blimey that starter motor wont last long  :shock:

Range Rover Blues:
I remeber my dad telling me that the tank engines they used to play with were started using a donkey engine and they started firing one cylinder at a time.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if loco engines are the same, it's quite common for them to be left idling all night rather than switch them off and have to re-start them again.

vtrdaz:

--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 05, 2008, 18:05:01 ---I remeber my dad telling me that the tank engines they used to play with were started using a donkey engine and they started firing one cylinder at a time.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if loco engines are the same, it's quite common for them to be left idling all night rather than switch them off and have to re-start them again.

--- End quote ---

Most have starter motors these days, sometimes two depending on the engine.
The older loco's that have DC generators for traction use start windings inside the generator to start the engine - so no worries of burning out the starter motors as there isn't one as such - just the generator ( on all loco's you can't in theory burn out the starters as the motors time out or have overheat protection to knock them out if they get too hot)

The loco in that video is an old DC generator type - no starter motors just the traction generator used as a starter - that's why they can keep motoring it over until it fires.

Bit of info for ya!

Darren

(p.s i'm not a train spotter! - just worked on these things for the last 20 years!)

Disco Matt:
Another example of the same class!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4cno0qUdKA

Silvery Thing:
Some of the old fire appliances I worked on many years ago would try to defy being started in the same way. When a bloody Perkins V8 got a strop on they could be real cows to get going [-o< Crikey we could smoke out the fire station :roll: Yes, they could act up in such a way when we were called out on a shout :doh: We would often threaten them with a branch much in the same way Basil Fawlty did ;) For the younger guys you won't know what this means :lol:

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page