RichardKenward

Well thanks for that! Perhaps I should explain better. I own a two cylinder lister generator and wanted to get a clearer idea of consumption. I came here on the off chance of finding some useful information with regard to fuel consumption of the Lister engines after an internet search throw up your site, but I found the information rather varied so I searched on the internet again and found the owners workshop manual for the lister engines I mentioned. I thought that it might be of interest to someone here what it said so I went to the trouble of registering simply to pass on the information I had gleaned. I am not into boating though it does attract me, however as I expect you will say why don't I just run my generator and measure the fuel consumption. Since it is fed from a 100 gallon tank that is not that straight forward but I will make up a small capacity tank and couple that up direct to the gen set and get an accurate measure of consumption at a certain loadings. Cheers Richard

I came here to get some information about fuel consumption and having found the information I was after thought it would be nice to provide the following. I had to go through the whole registration procedd to do this <BG> This is from the owners workshop manual that covers the three models of the Lister engines the TS/TR1, 2 and 3 cylinder. Cheers Richard Fuel Consumption A Specific Gravity of 0.84 is assumed l/h = g/kWh x kW x load factor 840 pt/h = lb/bhp h x bhp x load factor 1.05 Load Factor - Naturally aspirated engines 100% = 1.0 50% = 0.58 75% = 0.78 25% = 0.40 Load Factor - Turbocharged engines 100% = 1.0 50% = 0.55 75% = 0.76 5% = 0.38