Diesel Engines & Diesel Generator Systems

Quality diesel engines, diesel generators & electric generator systems powered by world class diesel engines. Available heavy duty diesel engines from industrial main or standby generators to residential models.

Please remember - Bowers Generator Systems can provide for all your generator needs from 2 Mega Watt units for industrial customers seeking heavy duty industrial main or standby generators to residential models. We can provide you with diesel, natural gas or propane powered units. We offer only top quality products that are priced at or below our competition who offer lesser brands!

Electric Generator Store

OPERATING SPEED

Electric equipment is designed to use power with a fixed frequency: 60 Hertz (Hz) in the United States and Canada, 50 Hertz in Europe and Australia. The frequency output of a generator depends on a fixed engine speed. To produce 60 Hz electricity, most engines operate at 1800 or 3600 RPM. Each has its advantages and drawbacks. 1800 RPM, four pole sets are the most common and least expensive. They offer the best balance of noise, efficiency, cost and engine life. 3600 RPM, two pole sets are smaller and lightweight, best suited for portable, light-duty applications. 

In simple terms it’s like operating your car at 90 mph, versus 45mph – at 45mph your car will last longer, is quieter, less maintenance and longer life.  Most 3600 rpm units are twin cylinder air cooled lawn mower engines, while the water cooled 1800 rpm units are comparable to those found in forklift and tractor engines…the 1800 rpm water cooled units will last longer, offer less maintenance problems and be more fuel efficient.

Diesel expected that his engine would be powered by vegetable oils (including hemp) and seed oils. At the 1900 World's Fair, Diesel ran his engines on peanut oil. Later, George Schlichten invented a hemp 'decorticating' machine that stood poised to revolutionize paper making. Henry Ford demonstrated that cars can be made of, and run on, hemp.

Evidence suggests a special-interest group that included the DuPont petrochemical company, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (Dupont's major financial backer), and the newspaper man William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism campaign against hemp. Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana with industrial hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful resources.

DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources, and saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum companies also knew that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as in an auto engine. Pollution was important to Diesel and he saw his engine as a solution to the inefficient, highly polluting engines of his time. In 1937 DuPont, Mellen and Hearst were able to push a "marijuana" prohibition bill through Congress in less than three months, which destroyed the domestic hemp industry.

FEATURES & BENEFITS TO LOOK FOR

ENGINE

Engine block. For long life and quiet operation we recommend four cycle, liquid cooled, industrial duty diesel engines.

Air or liquid cooling. Air-cooled engines require a tremendous amount of air and may require ducting. They're noisy too. Liquid cooling offers quieter operation and more even temperature control.

Intake and exhaust. Time and money savers include a large, integral air cleaner with replaceable filter element and a residential muffler, which is built into the exhaust manifold. This saves the need for an additional muffler.

The lubrication system should have a full flow, spin-on oil filter with bypass.

Major brand of engine - We do not recommend you purchase a Chinese built unit or off brand engine, you will not be able to obtain the necessary follow-on parts and service support available with our machines!