mshields
Senior Member
- Location
- Boston, MA
With a typical utility pad mounted transformer providing service at say 480V to a facility, one either taps the transformer or puts a breaker in ahead of the main to provide normal power to a fire pump.
My question pertains to a hospital that has it’s own 15kV distribution. Does the power to the fire pump have be via an additional 15kV service and therefore made up of a unit substation OR is there a provision, as I seem to recall, for campus like facilities with facility owned medium voltage distribution system that allows one to put the fire pump feeder on the 480V side
Might such a rule be contingent on the fire pump having generator backup (which we would in this case).
Would I have to tap ahead of the 480V switchboard in the new substation we are going to put in to serve the new building we’rel Adding to the hospital?
Thanks
My question pertains to a hospital that has it’s own 15kV distribution. Does the power to the fire pump have be via an additional 15kV service and therefore made up of a unit substation OR is there a provision, as I seem to recall, for campus like facilities with facility owned medium voltage distribution system that allows one to put the fire pump feeder on the 480V side
Might such a rule be contingent on the fire pump having generator backup (which we would in this case).
Would I have to tap ahead of the 480V switchboard in the new substation we are going to put in to serve the new building we’rel Adding to the hospital?
Thanks