xguard
Senior Member
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA
I have several old buildings that are fed out of a switchboard located within one of the buildings . The emergency lighting power for all of the buildings is on an independent panel located in the same room as the switchboard. Originally this emergency panel had had it's own service disconnect, transfer switch and generator.
Now the owner wants all of these buildings to be on generator power, they already have an 800 kW generator from another site they want to use, combined peak load for the buildings is 272 kW. There's one circuit breaker in the generator currently, 1200 A, that I would use to supply the transfer switch which is powering the switchboard. My plan is (or was) to install an additional circuit breaker in the generator to power the transfer switch for the emergency panel.
My question is, can the two generator circuit breakers be in the same enclosure inside the generator? This is the only way I've seen it done but reading through the code handbook it sounds like they must be separate. Thanks for any feedback.
Now the owner wants all of these buildings to be on generator power, they already have an 800 kW generator from another site they want to use, combined peak load for the buildings is 272 kW. There's one circuit breaker in the generator currently, 1200 A, that I would use to supply the transfer switch which is powering the switchboard. My plan is (or was) to install an additional circuit breaker in the generator to power the transfer switch for the emergency panel.
My question is, can the two generator circuit breakers be in the same enclosure inside the generator? This is the only way I've seen it done but reading through the code handbook it sounds like they must be separate. Thanks for any feedback.
