{"title":"Determining Reliability of low voltage transfer switches","authors":"R. Arno, Mark Bunal, A. Travis, J. Weber","doi":"10.1109/ICPS.2016.7490247","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this Reliability investigation of this manufacturer's transfer switches was to create an engineering document; in which, one could find validated information on the Reliability of one of its most popular series of transfer switchgear. These numbers could then be applied to assess the Reliability of a power system in whole by system designers. The most recent published Reliability data for Automatic Transfer Switches in the IEEE STD 493 Gold Book cites MTBF as 274,853 hours for >600 Ampere models and 102,094 hours for 0 to 600 Ampere models. This analysis is intended to provide more recent and better-defined results; results that the industry can reflect upon. A reputable independent organization was contracted to perform the analysis and analyze the data.","PeriodicalId":266558,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/IAS 52nd Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference (I&CPS)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE/IAS 52nd Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference (I&CPS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPS.2016.7490247","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The purpose of this Reliability investigation of this manufacturer's transfer switches was to create an engineering document; in which, one could find validated information on the Reliability of one of its most popular series of transfer switchgear. These numbers could then be applied to assess the Reliability of a power system in whole by system designers. The most recent published Reliability data for Automatic Transfer Switches in the IEEE STD 493 Gold Book cites MTBF as 274,853 hours for >600 Ampere models and 102,094 hours for 0 to 600 Ampere models. This analysis is intended to provide more recent and better-defined results; results that the industry can reflect upon. A reputable independent organization was contracted to perform the analysis and analyze the data.