I am looking to find a "Best Industry Practice" for exercising an emergency standby generator with an automatic transfer switch. Our current mode of exercising the generators is on a weekly cycle running for one hour with the transfer switch transferring the load to the generator. I want to convince management that the transferring of the load should be done only several times a year rather than every week. Doing the load transfer every week causes too much wear on the mechanical linkages and could possibly fail to transfer when it is actually needed. We have 80 of the Onan 15KW generators installed at ou locations through out the state. Walter Rieble, Maintenance Engineer with CAP. email wrieble@cap-az.com. address: CAP, PO Box 43020, Phoenix, AZ, 85080, USA.
Posted by maintenance-tips at April 7, 2004 09:21 AM