Underground source transfer system supports power
Designed for medical and datacenter applications
Power management company, Eaton has recently announced the release of its Cooper Power series Pad-mounted Source Transfer (PST) switchgear system designed for facilities that require highly dependable power.
The solution is engineered to facilitate automatic transfer of electrical loads between primary, secondary and emergency sources to support critical electrical equipment during a utility power outage.
Compared to other transfer methods, the PST system reduces equipment footprint and profile up to 89%.
With an integrated, intelligent and compact design, Eaton is helping customers support continuous up-time, while reducing time, cost and space.
“Eaton delivers an extensive portfolio of back-up power solutions to help ensure the availability of essential systems in healthcare, data center and many other mission critical applications,” said Rob Hardin, Product Line Manager-Underground Distribution Switchgear at Eaton.
“With the Pad-mounted Source Transfer system incorporating proven technology, Eaton is helping support the safe and reliable transfer of power from normal to emergency sources and back again.”
Engineered with the powerful iST control
Engineered with the powerful iST control, PST switchgear is a self-contained, compact system that is designed to provide automatic transfer between a primary source and alternate source.
As well as overcurrent protection for critical medium voltage loads.
Eaton’s Cooper Power series PST switchgear simplifies the installation with integrated protection, transfer, system metering, event diagnostics, communications and customized logic.
The PST system is able to detect problems with the power source and quickly and seamlessly switch to an alternate utility source or a back-up generator.
It provides immediate action, six cycles or less of transfer time, parallel restoration to normal power, as well as starting and cooling of the generator.
Source and restoration parameters include over/under-voltage, over/under-frequency and positive sequence under-voltage.
The source transfer system
The new source transfer system is also designed for installation in harsh outdoor environments and provides a fast, smart option to reduce outages and restoration time.
Utilities using the PST switchgear can experience integrated protection, transfer system metering and event diagnostics, as well as the Idea Workbench, a customized development platform to create custom-engineered logic for hardware control, status, communications, and front panel operation and indication.
To learn more about Eaton’s PST system, visit www.eaton.com/cooperpowerseries.
