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Amsterdam Electrical Device

Amsterdam Electrical Device

Amsterdam Electrical Device

(OP)
Can one of you more international gents let me know what this device is? I think it is a generator transfer switch.

A USA associate is looking at properties and needs some advice as to electrical infrastructure.

Thanks,

HDP

RE: Amsterdam Electrical Device

Hoofd means head and Schakelaar means breaker. So you are looking at the main switch for this building. Looks like a TN-C grid and voltage is 400/230 V. 50 Hz, of course.

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

RE: Amsterdam Electrical Device

(OP)
Thanks, Gunnar!
I knew your translation would be far superior to Google. Google gave me "emergency generator"!

Best to you,

HDP

RE: Amsterdam Electrical Device

...and I don't even speek Dutch! I use Swedish in the Netherlands. And they speak their whatever it is. And we get along quite well.

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

RE: Amsterdam Electrical Device

(OP)
I'd use Google to find how to say "Thank You" in Swedish, but I fear what that translation might say!

Dave

RE: Amsterdam Electrical Device

Checked it. Seems OK.

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

RE: Amsterdam Electrical Device

(OP)
Tack!

RE: Amsterdam Electrical Device

On the left appears to be the incoming mainrising from below, with NH pattern fuselinks and CT's, then looping over to a 4-pole switch. I'm not convinced that this is a TN-C network - if this was the case then opening the switch would break the combined neutral/earth and would leave the system without an earth. My guess is that it is TN-S with a switched neutral.

Interpreting the literal 'head breaker', I suspect the translation would be 'main switch'.

RE: Amsterdam Electrical Device

Agree on Main Switch, I said so. I didn't see the breaker element in the blue neutral. Closer look shows that the N is opened when phases open. So it is a TN-S system. Definitely. Agree with Scotty.

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

RE: Amsterdam Electrical Device

Is there a standby generator on site?
Can you provide a better photo of the red nameplate?
No problem with main switch identification, but it may be part of a transfer switch, possibly a service main incorporated as part of a transfer switch.
If there is a generator there must be a transfer switch somewhere.

Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter

RE: Amsterdam Electrical Device

It says "Noodstroomaggregaat anwezig". That means that there is an emergency generator.
It also says "Eventueel uitschakelen" which, funny enough, means "Switch off potential" and then "met noodstop op aggregaat" which, of course, means "with emergency stop on generator"

So, you were right about the emergency generator. But that text wasn't possible to read from the first picture.

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

RE: Amsterdam Electrical Device

(OP)
The generator was evidently removed by the previous tenant. Is it a reasonable assumption that there exists the functional equivalent of a service entrance rated transfer switch?

Thanks for all the help,

Dave

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