What is the difference between prime power and standby power?

When looking for a generator, the first thing you need to keep in mind is determining the power factor. Depending on the different projects, the purpose of power use is not the same. This article will help you distinguish between prime power and standby power accurately.

Standby Power

Standby power is often the most commonly evaluated and used in emergencies such as power outages. With standby power generators in all cases are run with total power.

Standby power should be used for public power supplies available. Maximum operating rate is 80% of load and approximately 200 hours per year. This includes less than 25 hours per year running time in standby mode. Standby power is not applicable except in emergencies. Manual load changes can be made for testing purposes with most automatic switchers.

Standby is back-up power:  At this power the transmitter is only used to provide emergency power in the event of a power outage and it is not allowed to overload because it is the maximum power defined in accordance with ISO 8528-3.

Prime Power

Prime is continuous power: power the transmitter can run continuously without being limited to operating time. At the same time, allow overload of 10% of capacity in a certain time, for example: Cummins generators are overloading 10% of load in an hour every 12 hours.

To find out more about the capacity for your project. Contact Hotline: 028 7106 9898 for fast support. Check out more of Digenso's articles here.