At 11:31 AM 1/13/98 -0600, you wrote:
> 2. In homes & businesses that have 'professional' installations
> such as this -- hospitals, fire stations, rich people, etc --
> the switching is done automatically, and genny's of 10 KW
> to 25 KW are typical.
> Dale K5MM
I work for a hospital that just build a new building with a 500 KW
generator. It runs on diesel and has five sets of contactors...all run by
microprocessors. When the contactors fire it sounds like a double barrell
12-gauge shotgun. Both going on generator and going back to mains. It
affects five different circuts in the hospital is is up and running is less
than 5 seconds once the power goes off. It is an ONAN generator with a Cat
engine. 1000 gallons of fuel. It runs at 1800 RPM and is quiet as a
Honda. My HP9000 UNIX file server and 7 Novell File servers never even
blink...thanks to some pretty good UPSes.
The unfortunate thing is that the generator is not on wheels so I can take
it to FD.
Lee Buller
k0wa@southwind.net
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