April Fool’s Day…

US Corp of Engineers Dredge Wheeler

What a better way to start April Fool’s Day than with a cantankerous diesel generator set. We are in New Orleans and spent the day troubleshooting this unit. We have performed a precision shaft alignment, validated the spring isolation system, acquired unloaded/loaded vibration data and will be following up with an Operating Deflection Shape analysis in the morning to confirm our suspicions. We will follow up with the results…