Glad you like them!

The fuel sender is the mechanical float that measures the tank level. So that light comes on if it detects a sudden drop in the fuel level meaning ether the tank is leaking or the fuel gauge has failed.

Supposed to be ran once a month and a load bank test once a year

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I am not wrong I am not sure how you got that as a answer however mixed signals is referring to a mixture of device types producing a significant difference in sound other the tone produced or the pattern of the signal

@@nics-systems-electric so, mixing horens and low frequency sounders isn't legal... Right? (I don't know much about the code(s) in US and Canada because I'm from the Netherlands)

@@wastemanagenl it's difficult as I don't know of any information on which specific devices which are and are not allowed I would guess those would not be legal due to the quite different tone however if they are in separate areas where they are not audible from each other it would likely be OK

@@nics-systems-electric I'm learning

They get tested annually with the fire alarm system

If they had some here I would

Yeah probably that would make sense

I've got lots of videos showing it running during other tests and power outages

@@nics-systems-electric sounds good 👌. I’d swap it into a truck 🛻

There is not a CO detector. diesels produce much less carbon monoxide than gas engines so I guess it's not as much of a concern especially since it's exhausted outside and there is constant air movement in the room when it's running

That's what I explained about the neutral delay. Because frequencies aren't matched there needs to be a delay when transferring.

It's not something you have to do. the generator just has to be started monthly you can just hit the run button to satisfy that requirement. I think I have started it from the standby transfer switch before just by doing a test with load from the actual transfer switch not switching the breaker off. Definitely not a bad idea to test all transfer switches.

@@nics-systems-electric Makes sense here to not really worry about it. But when it comes to back up gens and hospitals it's a whole other layer of regulations they have to meet and validate regularly.

There's multiple reasons. we don't want to shut down the entire building for no reason. You also don't want to be operating a large breaker under high load as it can fail. When you do a full building shut down you wouldn't be just opening the main breaker you would be turning off every smaller one first anyway.

The fire alarm system itself won't make any difference the exhaust fans would definitely put more load on it however I won't get the opportunity to do that as I only have a month left working in this school district

No

Most high schools do so students can get cash as there's still lots of things that are cash only especially at school I do believe there is a fee

That would be on the Non-Emergency power which also is powered by the UPS

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No the PA does not have any back up power which does not make much sense at all

Solar has its place but emergency power is not it. Not only the batteries that would be required would be extremely large and expensive that whole system would need to be CSA/ULC listed for life safety emergency use. we have schools with solar but not with batteries that would be just too big for a school. The solar system shuts down during a power outage and only the generator produces power at those schools anyways.

The amount of batteries needed to run for the required duration would be massive. Plus with diesel, assuming roads are clear, you can get fuel deliveries at regular intervals.

I'd google it as I am not a diesel mechanic.

Wet stacking, I believe is referring to either moisture or unburnt fuel in the exhaust, causing it to produce black smoke. I used to do maintenence for a nursing facility, we had a 250kw Cummins that I did monthly load tests on.

It's not "Kay double you" It's actually 60kw which is a measurement of power. kW is a common abbreviation for thousand watt. and is not the same as kVA. Generators are usually rated in kW however often both are specified on the nameplate as with this one. 60 kW or 75 kVA. Hope that helps.

kVA vs kW... VA is Volts times Amps and with DC gives you the Wattage, k for kilo, M for mega etc.... When it comes to AC since the current and voltage will not be in phase (except a purely resitive load) a simple VA calculation will not give you your actual power output. You have to account for the power factor, which is the ratio of VA vs real power expressed as power factor. As a general rule of thumb they use a 0.8 power factor to derive the kW rating from the kVA rating. But in real world conditions the power factor will change based on the types of loads. Purely resistive loads are a PF of 1, a crappy motor may be as low as 0.5 unloaded. So transformers and generators are based off the VA they can produce not the actual Wattage, since the power factor is unknown. And yes, your toy 5,000W gen at home is rated by Watts for simplicity, but real generators are rated in kVA or MVA. As far as nitpicking kW vs kilo-Watt.... that's just being a pain in the ass for no reason. Anyone in the industry calls it kW, MW etc.... By the way, Watt is the SI unit for power. So kW is correct in SI nomenclature too. And for someone telling someone to respect SI units, kvA is wrong. kVA is correct. V and A are capitalized as they are respective SI units. The k is just the sign for thousand and is lower case.

@@inothome I appreciate the explanation and detail. I'm not sure what makes my generator a toy as it does the same function as larger set ups during a power outage. Either way thanks for the comment.

@@nics-systems-electric You misunderstood, that wasn't directed at this generator. I was referring to little portable gens that are rated in Watts, not kVA like this gen is. Like a Honda 5kW gen, they normally don't advertise them in VA since most people buying them wouldn't understand. I was more talking to the original snarky comment about "respecting derived SI units".