Not to derail the derail, but I figured I should give an update now that I've been working in this new job a week. I still don't know exactly what I'm supposed to be doing, but HAVE been asking questions and lots of them!

The foremost I had after this discussion was about the codes we had to follow, but it turns that that even though we're doing work worldwide and nationwide under a vast plethora of local codes, we're the US DoD working on federal installations and nobody really holds us to anything. So, we work to NEC 2005 and pretty much just NEC 2005 and act as both engineers and inspectors to ensure the contractors doing the installation work do it properly. As the vast majority of this work is the same thing we've done everywhere else, it's mostly just a rollover of what we've done before and not a whole lot of places to screw up. Also, the bar is set very low- because my predesessor was an civil engineer with minimal EE background filling for the vacant EE slot, they let the contractor do most of the EE work and just rubber-stamp it with minimal input. Which is likely what I'll do the first few installs until I can build up my knowledge base, get familiar with NEC and the mil-handbooks and really get a grip on where improvements can be made.

For the time being, I'm jumping feet-first into the ladder logic of the PLCs running the gensets which seemed a good place to start [Linked Image]

Thanks for your input everyone!