City Of Lakeland Electric Building Project
March 12, 2019

March 12, 2019

Mid Florida Diesel, Inc was part of the team to remove an existing 300KW Caterpillar generator and install a new VD500KW Blue Star Power Systems generator, with a 1000 gallon and a 500 gallon Convault Diesel fuel tanks, and 2 Pryco Day tanks, and 3 – 600 amp ASCO ATS’s.
Job well done and customers are Happy-Happy!

BEFORE

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