White Paper Gallery
Items found: 16
Items found: 16
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2023-06-27T17:26:53.661
A Practical Guide for Migrating Electrical Architectures to the New Energy Landscape
This paper analyzes the trends driving businesses and consumers towards adopting new energy architectures and presents options for how engineers can best navigate the transition.
Looking into the Future
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2023-02-21T16:13:00.534
Non-Automatic and Manual Transfer Switches for Backup Power Applications
The document describes the three common types of transfer switches with different applications.
How Things Work, Application Focus
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2022-10-10T21:03:50.425
Power Source and Load Management in the New Energy Landscape
Learn emerging methods for optimizing power usage and load management. This document describes how they can help improve sustainability and power resilience.
Looking into the Future
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Is There a Microgrid in Your Facility’s Future? Part 4 of 4: Economic Opportunity
Microgrids can improve power resilience while opening the door for economic opportunities such as financial incentives. Learn more in this document.
Looking into the Future, How Things Work
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Is There a Microgrid in Your Facility’s Future? Part 3 of 4: Going Green
Microgrids are a group of loads and power sources increases power resilience and reliability. Understand its growth and applications.
How Things Work, Looking into the Future
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Is There a Microgrid in Your Facility’s Future? Part 2 of 4: Growth of Microgrids
Microgrids are a group of loads and power sources increases power resilience and reliability. Understand its growth and applications.
Looking into the Future
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The Potential of 5G Wireless
5G wireless is the newest type of wireless networks. Learn its overview and its impact on critical power.
How Things Work, Looking into the Future
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Transfer Switch: How To Protect It From Water Damage
Generator transfer switches must be protected from water damage to avoid issues and maximize service life.Learn more by reading this white paper.
Transfer Switches, Standards and Codes
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UL1008 Transfer Switch Withstand and Closing Ratings
UL1008 specifies robust testing requirements for verifying manufacturer ratings, including Withstand and Closing Ratings. This narrative describes the need for Withstand and Closing Ratings and summarizes key UL1008 tests used to verify them.
Standards and Codes, Transfer Switches
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2020 NEC Changes for Backup Power
The National Electrical Code® (NEC®) specifies requirements for safeguarding persons and property from electrical hazards, recently released as the 2020 Edition.
Standards and Codes
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Performance Testing for Transfer Switches
This paper summarizes the need for, nature of, and effects seen during switching tests, and discusses how the results benefit end users.
Transfer Switches, How Things Work
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Timing Delays for ATS Transition Modes
This paper briefly summarizes common transition modes for Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS), identifies timing delays that are typically available on transfer switches, and describes delays that are specific to certain ATS transition modes.
Transfer Switches, How Things Work
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Transferring Motor Loads Between Power Sources
This paper summarizes approaches for avoiding excessive in-rush currents that could trip breakers, damage motors and load equipment, and overload generators when transferring motor loads.
Transfer Switches, How Things Work
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Benefits of Custom-Engineered Transfer Switches
The following narrative identifies benefits that custom engineering services can bring to power transfer switches. It also provides examples of custom-engineered features commonly added to power transfer equipment.
Transfer Switches, How Things Work
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Connecting Closed Transition Transfer Switches to Utility Services
Closed Transition Transfer Switches (CTTS) transfer loads without interrupting power when both power sources are available and each presents acceptable characteristics. The following narrative provides important application information for this type of switch.
Application Focus, How Things Work, Transfer Switches
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Is There a Microgrid in Your Facility’s Future? Part 1
Whether it is power reliability and resilience, increased sustainability, or cost savings, there is tremendous interest in Microgrids for backup power. Part 1 of our series explores the question "What is a Microgrid?"
Application Focus
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