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by swamp_donkey 921 days ago
I designed control panel modifications and programmed an upgrade to a hospital diesel generation system so they could transfer from diesel back to utility without an outage, and have planned transfer of load to diesel without turning the lights out.

We had three windows at 1 am where any new critical patients would be diverted to a different hospital. The first we used for major maintenance to the breakers in the switchgear, the second we used for modifications to the bus work, and the last outage was to test the operation of the new control system.

They do a transfer to diesel every month and the whole hospital is aware of it in case it results in a blackout.