Running cost

What will it cost to run?

The set is the smaller bill. Work out the diesel before you buy: litres an hour at your real load, and what that comes to over a day and a month.

Set rating

Typical load

Hours a day

Diesel, ₹ per litre

What it burns

Load taken: 75.0 kW
Diesel per hour: 19.5 litres
Diesel per day: 156 litres
Tank for one day: 200 litres

Worked at 0.26 litres per kW-hour and a 0.8 power factor. A real set varies with age, altitude and how steady the load is — treat this as the order of magnitude, not the spec sheet.

What it costs

₹14,820

a day in diesel

Per hour: ₹1,853
26 working days: ₹3,85,320

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