1. Crestchic Loadbanks DCW Hong Kong 2017 Investing to Fail

2. Investing to Fail? Are you investing in emergency power assets?
Are you investing in potential failure?
Do you want to sleep well at night?

3. A white box with resistors & fans
The Key to Happiness is…..
A white box with resistors & fans
Really?

4. Never asked for a white box with resistors & fans!
What do all consumers want?
Service
Speed
Security
Value for Money
Never asked for a white box with resistors & fans!

5. Lincoln the dog, aged 8 weeks – fully insured with the UK Kennel Club
Protect What You Love
This dog is insured for all types of accidents, hereditary problems. Disease, theft, accidental death, rewards and lost campaign publicity
He is currently eating our garden and growing at a phenomenal rate.
There is no real reason for this slide, but it’s a really cute picture of what I love.
Lincoln the dog, aged 8 weeks – fully insured with the UK Kennel Club

6. Crestchic Loadbanks, HQ, UK
Insurers – Business Continuity
What about your flood risk?
Nowhere near a water course or any river
Full survey with environmental consultant predicted a major flood once in next 250 years
Policy premium was reduced
Insurance premiums typically account for 8.8% of OECD countries GDP
Are you investing to fail though?
Crestchic Loadbanks, HQ, UK
(not flooded)

7. Invest to Fail? Based on a typical 3750kVA Standby Power System
Gensets 3* 1250KVA
Controls
Exhuast & attenuation
Cooling
UPS 1 hr
Fuel Tank 80,000 litres
Fuel
Installation
Crane
Transport
Loadbank
Resistive Only 1MW
or…
Resistive-Reactive 1MVA
$950, USD
$37, – 95, USD

8. Crestchic Loadbanks
Introducing our Sales Team………

9. High Profile Generator Failures - Hospitals
UK – Gloustershire Royal – Surgery by torch-light
USA – Scripps Hospitals – fuel pump failure & reduced power
USA – NYC Langone Medical Centre – Genset failure after utility outage
Australia – Canberra Hospital – UPS failed after switchboard fire – Cardiac Centre at 50% capacity – Ops cancelled
There are just too many hospital generator failure stories to list
Hospital vs Data Centre joke
Just have a look at Google, or if you’re going to use a hospital soon, maybe you shouldn’t

10. High Profile Generator Failures
180 million passengers a year
800 aircraft
323 destinations served
80,000 employees
August 2016 – A loss of power caused a surge to a transformer that failed. Emergency systems failed to respond and subsequently led to other critical IT systems failing.
Hospital vs Data Centre Joke

11. High Profile Generator Failures - Delta
Thousands of passengers stranded – some for days
Compensation costs
Reputational damage
Power was restored relatively quickly, but the effects of the initial system crash led to 1800 flights being cancelled. With another flights delayed.
Staff could not check flights in, assign customer baggage tags. Aircraft were stranded in the wrong places, at the wrong times. Over 250,000 passengers were inconvenienced – and that was just the first day.
CEO Ed Bastian and COO Gil West came under immense pressure.
Subsequent investigation concentrate on the power surge and the frailty of the IT systems to withstand a temporary loss of power. This I accept. However, if that one standby power system had operated as it was intended to do, then none of this would have happened.

12. High Profile Generator Failures – SSP (UK)
Area utility power failure leads to an outage
Powergate data centre loses power & standby gensets fail to operate
Outage triggers a massive system failure that cannot be easily rebooted
300 Insurance brokers could not access the system to write & complete business for close to two weeks!
Same old story – a power failure on the grid initiates the standby power systems – the standby system fails to operate – the entire live data centre crashed and cannot be easily brought back online. Additionally other electric/electronic components fail and then need to be replaced.
No mention of what caused the WhapsApp outage in early May yet – I’m not suggesting that it was a genset failure, but the passion, bordering on hysteria that these outages can cause should make us all think about eliminating the things that we can control – the risk that we can mitigate.

13. High Profile Generator Failures – Rugby (Ireland)
Rugby fans were enjoying a big game in Dublin last month between home side Leinster and Glasgow Warriors
I love rugby. I really like to watch these tough guys trying to kill each other against a backdrop of mind boggling complex rules only known to a few. For those of you not overly familiar with the sport, it is very popular in The UK and especially so in Ireland.

14. High Profile Generator Failures – Rugby (Ireland)
“Leinster Rugby wishes to apologise to Glasgow Warriors and everyone that attended Friday evening’s Guinness PRO12 match at the RDS Arena.
The main generator and the back up generator failed”
Sounds pretty embarrassing eh? Well they couldn’t have picked a worse time for the gensets to fail.
After a pulsating game where Glasgow had fought back from 23-6 down at half-time to lead Glasgow needed a win to retain any hope of qualifying for the end-of-season play-offs and, with 90 seconds remaining with score at the floodlights went out.
After a 20 minute delay the match was resumed. Glasgow failed to make any scores though.

15. Generator Failures - Summary
Emergency power failure can be career defining incidents
Restoration of power after a failure is often not easy, with some systems requiring complex reset procedures, recertification & outside contractor support – Days, weeks?
Financial risk and consideration
Reputation damage
Lost customers
Career defining – yep, someone is going to lose their job
Its not as easy as switching back – most systems will require significant engineering to reboot
It’s costly – right now and in the medium term
Acquiring new customer is more expensive than keep the ones you’ve got happy

16. Loadbanks for Generator Testing

17. Protect Your Power Generation Assets
Gensets will not operate correctly if not regularly tested under high load conditions
Light load running will cause carbon build up, turbo inter-cooler inefficiency and eventual failure
Only by running the engine to full temperature can you identify any exhaust or under-lying cooling issues
Regular high load testing is recommended/demanded by may leading insurers
CONTINUED RUNNING AT VERY LOW LOADS WILL LEAD TO LOSS OF TURBOCHARGER EFFICIENCY AND GLAZING OF CYLINDER LINERS LEADING TO LOSS OF ENGINE PERFORMANCE, HIGH OIL CONSUMPTION AND CRANKCASE PRESSURISATION.
“Slobbering ! Hunting !”
Or just sounding rough

18. Protect Your Power Generation Assets
Simulate full load conditions
Emergency systems are actually a series of systems
Testing components individually is not sufficient to simulate a real world power loss
Capture all voltage, power & frequency data to analyse generator performance
Any given emergency power generation unit is actually a complex system, or series of systems, working together to perform several duties at once
various discrete systems and subsystems in the unit make this possible: alternators, regulators, switchgear, and various other additions to generation
systems all contribute to a given system’s operation.
These additional components can be products of various manufacturers, and are usually designed to interface with a number of makes, models, and sizes of diesel
generators.
Like any other mechanical or electrical component, all are subject to failure, and have varying maintenance
needs; all must be tested and serviced. However, individually testing a series of components never answers
the most important question of all: “How do you know that your system—and not merely its components—will work when it counts?”

19. LOAD TEST on SITE Myth Busting – “It was tested at the factory”
The genset has been moved, often lifted, many times
Fuel – type, condition & supply pressure
Multi-genset install – synchronisation
Energy management system integration
Climatic conditions (temp & humidity)
Exhaust system
Relationship with other electrical distribution components
People
LOAD TEST
on SITE

20. Crestchic Loadbank Products

21. Loadbanks - Canopy Tests the engine – but not the alternator
Rated in kW
1.0 Unity power factor
Engine maintenance – prevents carbon build up and turbo inefficiency
Single (1) & three (3) phase operation
Capacity from 20kW to 6000kW units
AC Voltages – 110v to 690v
DC loadbanks available

22. Loadbank Resistive Elements
Stainless steel elements
Completely waterproof – use in the rain
Easy to use with step-down transformers – avoids use of difficult MV resistors
Magnesium oxide encapsulated resistance wire
Individual replacement – not by area
Various voltages available

23. Trailer Mounted Loadbanks
40KW – 2000KW:
Knott Avonride Trailer
UK/EU road legal
VIP Meters
Crash-packs
Trailers
PVC covers
Cable storage

24. Trailer Mounted Loadbanks
40KW – 2000KW:
Knott Avonride Trailer
UK/EU road legal
VIP Meters
Trailers
PVC covers
Cable storage

25. Loadbanks - Canopy KW KW

26. Loadbanks - Containerised
Tests the engine and the alternator
Provides a full test at 0.8 power factor (variable)
Rated in kVA
Vital for alternator synchronisation
Capacity from 50kVA to 6.25MVA units
AC Voltages – 110v to 690v
High voltage with step down TX to 33kV
Lloyds Register Approved containers

27. Containerised Crestchic Product
10ft Transformer Container
20ft Loadbank Container

28. Containerised Crestchic Product - MV
LV Loadbank section
4.5MVA Loadbank
ABB Safeplus MV Switchgear Section*
*Opposite side
LV Isolator to Transformer section
MV Transformer Section
Use in the rain
Very safe LV resistor
Not open wound resistors like much else in this field
500kW – 4500kW, Voltages to 36kV, Containers 6ft – 40ft
Integral Switchgear MV & LV

29. MCS Eclipse Control Options
PC with Eclipse or HHT100 Controller
Both with 1kW load step resolution
One controller can operate multiple loadbanks

30. Eclipse Control Software

31. Eclipse Control Software

32. Eclipse Control Software

33. Data Centre Air-Con Testing

34. Data Centre Air-Con Heat Load Testing

35. Data Centre Air-Con Heat Load Testing
Loadbanks provide accurate & stable heat load
Heat load adjustable in 1kW steps
Even heat load across multiple load banks
Tests air-con without risk to other equipment – the load can be withdrawn at anytime
Easy to move heat source from room to room

36. Data Centre Air-Con Heat Load Testing
KCS100 or HHT100 Controller
Both with 1kW load step resolution
One controller can operate multiple loadbanks

37. Major Irish Data Centre 27
Major Irish Data Centre 27*250kW A leading global online retailer of books

38. Crestchic – Data Centre Heat Load Testing

39. Crestchic – Data Centre Heat Load Testing

40. Data Centre Air-Con Heat Load Testing

41. High Value Portable Package
Non-Standard Products
High Value Portable Package
Bespoke low load trailer
2.6MW LB
Motorised cable reels
Cable supply
LV Circuit breaker
300mm Power-Safe connectors
Produced for a major internet search engine data centre.

42. Trailer Mounted Loadbanks

43. Battery Testing

44. DC Loadbanks Battery/UPS Testing
DC Loadbanks VDC
UPS battery discharge testing
Constant power – auto dynamic adjustment
Constant current – auto dynamic adjustment
Multi-Voltage options
Portable industrial build quality
Data acquisition via Corona & Fusion Software

45. Thank You
See you at Stand N55