ECN Electrical Forum - Discussion Forums for Electricians, Inspectors and Related Professionals
ECN Shout Chat
ShoutChat
Recent Posts
Increasing demand factors in residential
by gfretwell - 03/28/24 12:43 AM
Portable generator question
by Steve Miller - 03/19/24 08:50 PM
Do we need grounding?
by NORCAL - 03/19/24 05:11 PM
240V only in a home and NEC?
by dsk - 03/19/24 06:33 AM
Cordless Tools: The Obvious Question
by renosteinke - 03/14/24 08:05 PM
New in the Gallery:
This is a new one
This is a new one
by timmp, September 24
Few pics I found
Few pics I found
by timmp, August 15
Who's Online Now
0 members (), 260 guests, and 20 robots.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Rate Thread
#41125 08/15/04 11:42 PM
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 558
G
Member
This question is actually about backup power.

The owners of a go-cart track,which runs races at nite,want to know if there's some way to have a system in place to power the track lites in case of a power failure in the middle of a race.

It would have to be something instantanous,and the lighting is metal halide.

Does such an animal exist? I'm familiar with usual,residential systems,even with automatic transfer switches,but even they have a reaction time.

Please enlighten me,and thanks for any help.

Russell

#41126 08/16/04 02:13 AM
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 939
F
Member
russ; yep there is new beast just came out to tame it . [Linked Image]


one company called "bodine co"

www.bodine.com

click on choose a product then scroll down to " ArcKeeper" and click on that too and wait a sec to load it up. it have good information you want to know about it.


try this one to see if that work for you russ


merci , marc

[This message has been edited by frenchelectrican (edited 08-16-2004).]


Pas de problme,il marche n'est-ce pas?"(No problem, it works doesn't it?)

#41127 08/16/04 07:38 AM
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 558
G
Member
Thanks Marc. [Linked Image]

[This message has been edited by ga.sparky56 (edited 08-16-2004).]

#41128 08/16/04 07:58 AM
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 717
G
Member
Call APC
They will be happy to provide a UPS system, and NO, they don't care how much load you have.

#41129 08/16/04 11:33 AM
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 582
R
Ron Offline
Member
I have heard the arc keeper is a good product, although it only works for 2 minutes. If they need transient protection, then that is the ticket. If they need to stay on during an outage for more than 2 minutes, then they also need a autostart generator with transfer switch.


Ron
#41130 08/16/04 01:19 PM
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 2,527
B
Moderator

#41131 08/16/04 09:04 PM
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 558
G
Member
Thanks for all the good info fellas.


Link Copied to Clipboard
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.5