Critical Facility Generator
Load Bank Testing
A comprehensive preventive maintenance program is critical to the reliability of a standby generator, and generator load bank testing is an essential part of good maintenance practices.
Performing yearly load bank testing helps to extend the generator's engine life, and helps to ensure reliable operation during a utility power failure.
What is load bank testing?
Generator load bank testing allows a standby generator to be tested and exercised to verify its overall reliability, and its ability to run at its full rated KW output. Typically, a generator is running at a level far less than the units rated output capability.
Load bank checks the engines ability to perform and provide the required horsepower when called upon in an emergency. When a load bank is used, the artificial load it provides brings the engine up to an acceptable operating temperature.
What are the benefits?
Load bank testing allows the engine to reach this full operating temperature and 'burns out' this accumulation of un-burnt fuel. The result is a unit that runs cleaner and more efficiently. It also offers peace of mind that your standby generator is operating as it was designed too. Any generator set, whether the prime mover is diesel or gaseous fuel driven, can benefit from having it load bank tested.
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