Very cheap ATS /AMF

Very cheap ATS /AMF

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When we operated diesel power plant as a back up system (standby power system), this means we must also install ATS /AMF. ATS or Automatic transfer switch and AMF or Automatic Main Failure are device tochange over load when electricity from main supply is fail. Commonly diesel power plant is used as back up power system / standby power system.

The main principle of an ATS ,  Its a switch, or more precisely, ATS is an interlocked switch. ATS make sure that just only one power supply feed electrical load.  Because ATS is a switch we can use MCCB ( Molded Case  Circuit Breaker) or COS ( change over switch). If we use MCCB is mean we must use two MCCB, and if we useChange over Switch as ATS, we just only need one COS or change over switch. Image below shown well known COS change over switch from SOCOMEC.

Image above shown a manual type of Change Over Switch from Socomec.

Because its manual type change over switch, we must pull the handle to change over load.  But we can useautomatic version of Change over switch. Just for example, Atys Change Over Switch is a automatic type change over switch produced by Socomec.

As we know diesel power plant starting time before it being loaded, and AMF is the system that controlchange over load operation. AMF for diesel power plant also has task to  monitoring diesel engine operation .Today so many AMF offered by various  manufacturer, like Inteli, Deep Sea.

Unfortunatelly ATS/AMF from manufacturer  is expensive, but don’t worry we can still get ATS/AMF in  cheap price.  To make cheap ATS/AMF we can use MCCB , timer and phase failure relay. We can get MCCB from schneider or another factory, and for timer we can use timer from Omron or from another manufacturer.