Transfer equipment installations can be extremely complex, even for optional standby arrangements that are critical to business operation. This is the final installment in a series of articles examining transfer equipment used in optional standby systems for commercial applications. In Part I of this series, we covered the fundamentals of transfer equipment used in optional [...]
The primary purpose of transfer equipment is to allow power transfer from a normal (Utility) source to an alternate (Generator) source while preventing the inadvertent interconnection of the normal and alternate source of supply during operation of the transfer equipment. During Part I of this series, we covered the fundamentals of transfer equipment used in [...]
Significant growth in optional standby systems for commercial applications is being driven by the demand for electrical power to be present that will ensure continuity of business activities. Concerns stem from weather related outages to other reliability issues that can result in the loss of electric utility of a building, communication center, or process. Loss [...]
