I'm putting together a ChangFa 22hp diesel engine and a ST-10 10Kw genhead
generator set for shop power and an occasional backup power source for
Florida Hurricane season.

I would like to know what engine stats would be a good idea to monitor,
i.e. Oil pressure, oil temp, water temp, (running) hours meter (hobbs
meter), freq meter. Any others?

I am looking into setting up some kind low oil pressure or low fuel
shutdown capability but had concerns about shutting down the genset with
loads still applied to the genset.

So, an idea I had would have a high power relay inline before the panel so
when a shutdown condition was about to occurred, the relay would open up,
dropping the load from the genset then the genset would be turned off in a
safe manner.

Genset -- 240 -- relay -- fuse panel -- 120/240 circuits breakers
^
control

Any other idea on how to do this? Then genhead has a capability of 120/240
@ 87/43.5 Amps


thanks.

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