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Site conditions · Mbarara, Uganda
Elevation
1,422 m
plateau
Design ambient
32.2 °C
mean max 28.1 °C
Altitude derate
11.2%
output lost to thin air
Combined derate
14.1%
100 kVA ≈ 86 kVA here
Mbarara stands 1,422 m up — 9th lowest of 10 of the 10 Uganda cities we cover, on plateau ground. Thinner air means less oxygen per stroke, so 1,422 m costs 11.2% of rated output.
Practically: 100 kVA on the plate is about 86 kVA in Mbarara. Size from the plate and the set runs at its limit from day one, glazing bores and wet-stacking. At 1,422 m a turbocharged engine recovers most of that 11.2% and is usually worth the difference.
16 °C to 28.1 °C. A 12.1 °C cycle is enough to loosen connections within a year or two in Mbarara. The intermittent faults that follow get misread as controller trouble; they are almost always a terminal needing re-torquing.
Mbarara is roughly 702 km west of our base at Embakasi, Nairobi, in a straight line and across a border. At 702 km, mobilisation is a real line in any Mbarara quotation, and a machine waiting on a travelling part waits days, not hours. Hold a critical kit on site — filters, belts, an AVR, injectors — rather than ordering per failure.
Elevation: Open-Meteo Geocoding API (GeoNames elevation), retrieved 2026-08-26. Temperature: Open-Meteo Archive (ERA5 reanalysis), 2025 daily maxima and minima. Derate figures are planning estimates using standard corrections (approximately 1% per 100 m above 300 m; 2% per 5 °C above 25 °C); final sizing follows the engine manufacturer’s own derate tables for the set proposed.
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