Load bank testing, fuel polishing, ATS/paralleling
Generator load bank testing software for sites where N+1 has to be proven, not assumed.
Standby power depends on generators, day tanks, bulk storage, fuel polishing, ATS and paralleling switchgear all performing together under load, not individually on a data sheet. Deskely tracks every generator, fuel system component and switchgear asset through commissioning, load bank testing and the 72-hour reliability run that precedes energisation.
- Assets
- Gensets, ATS, paralleling gear
- Fuel
- Storage, polishing, day tanks
- Test
- Load bank and 72-hour run
- Gate
- N+1 proven under load
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The problem
A generator that starts is not a generator that has been proven.
Genset start-up, fuel system commissioning and switchgear testing are usually run by separate contractors on separate schedules, and the gap between them is exactly where standby power fails during a real outage.
Load bank testing, fuel polishing verification and ATS transfer testing each generate their own paperwork, none of which shows whether the whole standby chain works together.
Deskely holds generators, fuel systems and switchgear as dependent assets, so a facility's standby readiness reflects the weakest link rather than the best-documented one.
Setting up the register
Generators, fuel and switchgear are one chain with three subsystems.
Generators, day tanks, bulk storage, fuel polishing skids, transfer pumps, ATS and paralleling switchgear are tagged assets under a standby power subsystem with explicit sequencing.
Single line diagrams, fuel schematics and generator data sheets are parsed into the register, so load bank test procedures and fuel quality requirements are attached to the right asset from the start.
N+1 or N+2 redundancy configurations are modelled explicitly, so the register reflects which units are required to carry the actual load.
Execution
Load bank tests and transfer sequences captured with real measured values.
Technicians record fuel polishing results, transfer pump verification, ATS transfer time, paralleling synchronisation and step-load and full-load bank test results on tablets at the generator yard and switchgear room.
The 72-hour reliability run is tracked as a discrete record with fuel consumption, temperature, vibration and load readings logged at interval, not summarised after the fact.
Punch from a failed transfer, an overheating alternator or fuel contamination is raised immediately and categorised by whether it blocks the reliability run or final acceptance.
Standby readiness
Energisation follows a chain proven under load, not on paper.
System acceptance for standby power depends on generator commissioning, fuel system verification and switchgear testing all being complete and signed, enforced from the data rather than a closeout memo.
The 72-hour reliability run result becomes the gating record for utility-to-generator transfer confidence ahead of energisation.
The standby power dossier — load bank curves, fuel quality baselines, transfer times and paralleling settings — goes to operations as the reference for annual testing.
Diesel bug and stale fuel don't announce themselves
The generator that never fails a monthly test can still fail the real outage, because fuel degrades in a way monthly exercising doesn't catch.
Microbial contamination — the diesel bug — grows at the fuel-water interface in bulk storage and day tanks over months, well before it produces a symptom a routine exercise run would catch, and by the time a generator won't sustain full load during an actual utility outage, the fuel has usually been marginal for a long time.
Fuel polishing verification and periodic fuel quality sampling — water content, particulate, microbial testing — is the evidence that actually predicts reliability, but on most sites it's a lab report emailed to whoever asked for it, disconnected from the tank it came from and the generator it feeds.
Deskely holds fuel quality trend data against the specific storage tank and day tank it belongs to, on its own testing cadence independent of the generator's exercise schedule, so a declining water content or a positive microbial result is visible as a pattern against that tank well before it becomes a 72-hour reliability run finding.
How it runs
From genset delivery to a proven 72-hour run.
Standby power redundancy claims are only as good as the test evidence behind them.
- 01
Model the standby chain
Generators, fuel storage and polishing, ATS and paralleling switchgear tagged as one dependent chain.
- 02
Parse single lines and fuel schematics
Drawings and data sheets turned into a reviewed register with redundancy configuration recorded.
- 03
Record fuel and transfer testing
Fuel polishing, transfer pump and ATS transfer time results captured against the asset.
- 04
Run step-load and full-load banks
Load bank test results logged with measured values, not a pass/fail summary.
- 05
Track the 72-hour run
Fuel, temperature, vibration and load readings logged at interval for the full reliability run.
- 06
Certify standby readiness
System acceptance issued from the full chain of records ahead of energisation.
FAQ
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