15 Sep
2001
15 Sep
'01
11:35 p.m.
Was this unit tested regularly? With a load bank? If there was a weekly test run, why wasn't this problem caught? It seems like there's a lesson to be learned here. My guess is that many sites' idea of a periodic test is to fire up the generator (without a load) for 5 or ten minutes and assume everything's ok. How many folks actually perform a load transfer to the generator during testing to check out the transfer switch ? Joe -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124