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<blockquote data-quote="Sanford" data-source="post: 2306064" data-attributes="member: 27733"><p>Well, that's not happening - I use Mystik JT-8. The reason I choose to run dino oil in generators has to do more with the nature of generator engines needing to run steadily and smoothly at a specific speed to keep the electrical frequency within spec. Many/most other small engines don't (and don't need to) run as close as possible to the same speed plus or minus a few RPM for hours at a time - that's what I meant when I said "finicky" as regards generators. So, sure - a synthetic oil may stay "thinner" in cold weather - but if that's really okay for the engine and optimum for the performance of the generator why didn't the manufacturer just specify use of a lower viscosity oil - synthetic or no - to start with? After all it would be a potential selling point to make it use less fuel and have a longer run time per tank, much less keeping the enviroweenies happier. Now if it were a Briggs engine - sure, the lube chart in the manual even recommends specific grades of synthetic for specific temperature ranges.</p><p></p><p>In the end it all comes down to who <em>you</em> believe knows more about the engines - the people who design and build them or the people who want to sell you their particular prescription of <s>snake</s> - oops - "technologically advanced" oil to put in them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sanford, post: 2306064, member: 27733"] Well, that's not happening - I use Mystik JT-8. The reason I choose to run dino oil in generators has to do more with the nature of generator engines needing to run steadily and smoothly at a specific speed to keep the electrical frequency within spec. Many/most other small engines don't (and don't need to) run as close as possible to the same speed plus or minus a few RPM for hours at a time - that's what I meant when I said "finicky" as regards generators. So, sure - a synthetic oil may stay "thinner" in cold weather - but if that's really okay for the engine and optimum for the performance of the generator why didn't the manufacturer just specify use of a lower viscosity oil - synthetic or no - to start with? After all it would be a potential selling point to make it use less fuel and have a longer run time per tank, much less keeping the enviroweenies happier. Now if it were a Briggs engine - sure, the lube chart in the manual even recommends specific grades of synthetic for specific temperature ranges. In the end it all comes down to who [I]you[/I] believe knows more about the engines - the people who design and build them or the people who want to sell you their particular prescription of [s]snake[/s] - oops - "technologically advanced" oil to put in them. [/QUOTE]
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