It took a few service calls over several months. There would be a fault. Check basics. Clear faults. Operate unit for an hour or two throwing it through various paces and could not reproduce it. Eventually it dawned on me at this site that it was occurring about a month apart and realized it was the electrical glitch when the generator test occurred. After this I confirmed same thing at site #1 and then the next location(s) I knew what was going on when I got the same service calls for the same phantom PTS fault.
Considering there must be lots of other electronic equipment in the building (both for other building fixtures and for the medical operations) it's likely some of that other equipment also experienced phantom faults. It seems it would be better if the generator test were configured to simulate a full power outage with cold start, so that after the generator is up to speed and the building re-energized each piece of equipment could re-boot according to its own internal delay, if any.
I was at a facility some years back and did the generator testing sometimes. They had some crazy requirements for the time of power off to the time of start and transfer to be 15 or 20 seconds. Can't remember but it seemed too short for a start and stabilize of the generator. The compound supercharger & turbocharger Detroit Diesels were cool tho. Anyway you'd think that most medical equipment today should have some sort of local battery power (measurement devices) and an UPS on the computers with the generator just needed to keep them from going dead. These things definitely did not like the quick hiccup in power
Yea, you are a true expert when you can tell that the error codes are not what they make out to be...
It took a few service calls over several months.
There would be a fault.
Check basics. Clear faults. Operate unit for an hour or two throwing it through various paces and could not reproduce it.
Eventually it dawned on me at this site that it was occurring about a month apart and realized it was the electrical glitch when the generator test occurred.
After this I confirmed same thing at site #1 and then the next location(s) I knew what was going on when I got the same service calls for the same phantom PTS fault.
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Considering there must be lots of other electronic equipment in the building (both for other building fixtures and for the medical operations) it's likely some of that other equipment also experienced phantom faults. It seems it would be better if the generator test were configured to simulate a full power outage with cold start, so that after the generator is up to speed and the building re-energized each piece of equipment could re-boot according to its own internal delay, if any.
I was at a facility some years back and did the generator testing sometimes.
They had some crazy requirements for the time of power off to the time of start and transfer to be 15 or 20 seconds. Can't remember but it seemed too short for a start and stabilize of the generator. The compound supercharger & turbocharger Detroit Diesels were cool tho.
Anyway you'd think that most medical equipment today should have some sort of local battery power (measurement devices) and an UPS on the computers with the generator just needed to keep them from going dead.
These things definitely did not like the quick hiccup in power