Recent Increase In Demand For Routine Load Tests

54 units 150kW Load Bank exported to Melbourne and Sydney Data Centre for electric load test. 

For many years it has been routine for all newly-installed generating sets to have a load test during the commissioning process to prove the performance of the set and all its ancillaries – the cooling system, exhaust system, switchgear, and protection scheme. When using mobile equipment, these tests have traditionally been performed by contractors who visit the site, bringing with them a portable load bank. Sadly, this was often the only time that equipment was adequately tested.
Encouragingly, however, we have recently seen instances of very high profile financial and telecoms firms investing in their portable load banks and in many cases still using the same contractors to test. This, in addition to those instances of fixed load banks for routine testing we have always seen, provides evidence that many high-profile companies have woken up to the importance of regular testing of standby power. This represents a big step forward.