ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area seamless power transfer?

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

russ; yep there is new beast just came out to tame it .


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).]

Thanks Marc.

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

Call APC
They will be happy to provide a UPS system, and NO, they don't care how much load you have.

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.

Search terms “instant restrike metal halide” and “quartz restrike control”. Also, www.pge.com/003_save_energy/003c_edu_train/pec/info_resource/pdf/Metal_Halide_Lamps.pdf http://ecmweb.com/mag/electric_minimize_hid_lighting/index.html http://ecmweb.com/mag/electric_applying_hid_lamps/index.html http://ecmweb.com/mag/electric_voltage_variations_arc/index.html

Thanks for all the good info fellas.