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Your generator set plays a crucial role in ensuring your organization remains productive during a power failure. Testing the capacity of your generator is vital to establish if it can withstand its maximum load capacity. Blanchard Energy can verify your generator set’s full capability by testing it with a load bank.
Load bank testing tests the load capacity of your generator and ensures your alternative power system is capable of operating at its maximum level should you have a power outage. Blanchard Machinery Company offers load bank testing through our Blanchard Energy division. Our technicians come to your location to test the capacity of your emergency power system.
The test involves connecting a load bank to your generator, so the load bank provides the electrical load. The load bank gradually introduces power to your generator set at a lower percentage and increases this at specific intervals. This testing is a simple, efficient way to ensure your generator is compliant and give you peace of mind.
Load bank testing your generator helps you feel secure knowing that your emergency power system can operate on maximum power. You’ll also find out if your generator can effectively supply power in line with your company’s electricity demands. If you lose energy from the city’s electrical grid, you’ll rest assured your alternative power source can keep operations running.
Load bank testing is also essential for critical functions and life-preserving machines. Healthcare and other crucial facilities must comply with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Ensuring emergency power systems work efficiently and productively during a power failure is vital to meet the necessary regulations.
Besides ensuring your emergency backup system works efficiently at full capacity, load bank testing helps keep your generator set clean and in good working order. You’ll also fully comply with the NFPA 110 Standard for Emergency and Standby Power Systems. Additional advantages of this test include:
Carbon deposits form when a generator runs at low levels and cannot burn excess carbon and fuel. Load bank testing helps limit the amount of carbon buildup by gradually adding electricity to the generator to clean away the accumulation of deposits. Periodically running the generator at full capacity produces enough heat to burn off carbon deposits.
Sometimes, your generator set may only run at a partial capacity. You may not realize this if you have several generators that distribute power evenly to all the major machines in your organization. Checking the full capability of your generator set is vital to ensure it can support your operations in the event of a significant power need or when alternative energy systems aren’t available.
As generators make energy to power various machines and devices, they produce heat. To regulate this heat and help generators stay cool, ensuring their cooling system works at its best is important. Cooling is an essential mechanism, as overheating can damage the radiator core. Periodic generator load bank testing helps exercise the cooling components, preventing them from lagging and malfunctioning.
The primary reason for load bank testing is to ensure your generator sets can handle their maximum load capability. A secondary goal is to test whether the generators can manage your organization’s consumption load at any given time.
If your generator set is under too much pressure, its safety shutdown mechanism will kick in. Testing this feature during actual operations isn’t viable, which is why load bank testing is essential. The operation tests a generator’s safety shutdown in real conditions, giving you peace of mind.
Regular load bank tests are vital for maintaining safety standards. They also help ensure your generator sets will effectively provide power if a power outage should occur. Load banks test the maximum capability of your generator, verifying you’ll have the necessary electricity for smooth operations without interruptions.
Blanchard Energy can streamline the testing process for you. Our technicians visit you on-site from one of our locations to conduct vital testing of your generator set and help you remain compliant. You can contact us online to schedule an appointment or call us at 844.252.6242 for more information.