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Hi,
You will have to excuse my ignorance of this Lars but why would you want to change the duty genset so often?
On motor boats with only two gensets I always run one genset till it needs a service ( 250hrs for Caterpillar) and have the other one in reserve just with the hours on it when two were needed and then swap them over, service the one that is due as quick as possible and run what was the reserve one till it needs a service then repeat the whole cycle for as long as required.
I went around the world on a yacht with just two gensets. There was no hand pump to extract lube oil from the tank in event of a power failure. As a precaution I used to carry enough Lube Oil ( 28.5 Lts) in Plastic Containers to refill the sump once because we all know that that infamous Irishman Murphy lurks in all bilges and will leap out and cause you grief when you least expect it. Thankfully it was never needed but when one had a problem it used to get special attention as I was always fearful that the other would stop as well.
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Cheers,
K1W1
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