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I wonder about the diesel in cold weather. When you are home you can take care of it, but since you mentioned an outage when you arent home, is the auto transfer switch smart enough to start of cold diesel? If its -20 I assume you'd have fuel additive but still might need to have the engine plugged in. Also might have to cycle the glow plugs a few times. Only speaking from car/truck diesel experience, maybe this stuff is figured out with the gen switch/controller.

The 30k hours really is a lifetime but you'd better have a few fuel trucks lines up to keep it fed.
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