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  • Flawless design, but...

    Updated: Oct 26, 2024
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    We design may of our remote sites with lots of redundancy and think of many failure scenarios that we can recover from with minimal impact.

    Today, one of the sites experienced a brief power failure. Something our designs definitely can operate through without any issues. The one thing that even the best design needs to consider.

    A local technician that left the generator in bypass mode during his last maintenance. It's a mechanical handle with no way to query the state/position of the handle. In this mode, the generator does not provide power when plant/grid power is removed.

    Something so simple would have made it a non-event, but we ended up spending hours getting equipment back to normal operation.
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