[EAS] Rochester Station Offers to Charge Cell Phones

[Mike McCarthy]

I appreciate what I'm going to say isn't practical for larger gensets, but
I am installing portable load bank connectors (for commonly available
portable 6KW heaters) on my installs less than 100KVA so I can load test
at 80% nameplate without jumping through a bazillion hoops and writing big
checks to the local service shop. On a three phase service, it's easy to
add 18KW of balanced test (or base) load if you have 6 open breaker slots.

The goal is to power-on everything in the building possible (all TX's, AC
condensing units, blowers, lighting, pumps, heaters, etc.) to test worst
case conditions. The added load to get 80-85% nameplate insures there is
no problem with headroom.

Then I throw the main to the protected services and let everything run for
a couple hours twice a year.

I can't tell you how many things I've caught over the years using this
added load method which would have otherwise shut down ops in critical
conditions...

MM

On Mon, March 13, 2017 10:53 pm, Bill Ruck wrote:

>
> That is why I always test generators and transfer switches by pulling
> the main breaker.  If it isn't right you can always return utility power.
>
> Bill Ruck