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Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:00 PM

Load Bank Testing of Generator Sets

By: Benz, Kevin Comments

Generator sets represent a sizable capital investment, and are seldom installed as amenities of convenience. Their failure to perform properly when called into action is almost always accompanied by potentially dangerous conditions and/or risk of significant financial loss.

Periodic load bank testing is an important element of any comprehensive preventive/predictive maintenance program to ensure the genset is capable of accepting certain building loads when required. But, load bank testing is seldom specifically required by… continue reading

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