<div dir="auto">Re: Transfer switch possible problem…</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Daver keeps reminding me there’s a small lag in power availability when the grid power cuts out unexpectedly and the generator isn’t already running, which is (part of) why our darling fire pump control panel keeps getting stuck on “Initializing…” </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I can make sure it’s a cold start next time I do a transfer switch test. The one we did last Thursday was not a cold start, and, hey look, the chem tank alarm also did not trigger. Hmmm.🤔 </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So… maybe more like a tolerance issue at the panel than something wrong with the transfer switch, or MAAAAYBE the transfer switch just not signaling the generator fast enough? … Or maybe “fast enough” would require the transfer switch have psychic powers. (We can’t afford that model.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Related data points: The smaller generator (to the fire pump side) does NOT, I believe, connect to/through the main Transfer Switch at all, but the fire pump control panel (which has its own built in transfer switch) is also not tolerating these blips and seems to get stuck on its initializing screen every time we have a power interruption while it’s already online. It took us until last week to fully understand that was happening. (Sometimes it’s sneaky and restarts itself when we have back to back power grid hiccups.)<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The fire pump control panel symptoms aren’t the same as the freshwater pump control panel symptoms, as it’s not reporting a wrong error, but it’s still doing a wrong thing. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Note I’m assuming here that there’s not actually a problem with the chem tank and so the panel is alerting about the wrong problem, but I don’t know the water system comms or tolerances very well so maybe it’s a threshold setting that should change and not actually a False or Misidentified Alarm. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maybe the control panels need a tiny battery backup for the cut-over period?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When you ask SWSS to look at the (main/fresh water) transfer switch, I’d like to know, for diagnostic procedures, if there’s a way to look up when and for how long power was supplied from the generator in a given event.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~Tara(@57)</div><div dir="auto">508-361-9605</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 15:09 Phéna Proxima <<a href="mailto:adam@phenaproxima.net">adam@phenaproxima.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">If the chem tank thing is power-related, that would suggest a possible power transfer switch issue. Will have to ask SWSS about it.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">A</div>
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On Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 at 3:08 PM, Tara Halwes <<a href="mailto:tarahalwes@gmail.com" target="_blank">tarahalwes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">RESOLVED for now.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Chem tank alarm acknowledged.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Adam tells me this happens all the time and doesn’t think it’s power related.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Daver does think it’s power related, but that could be why it happens all the time (component spin up timing differences).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Fire side controller also unhappy due to power fart and back in Initializing forever screen. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Pump testing planned for tomorrow. Not resetting fire pump controller yet.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~Tara</div><div dir="auto"> <br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 14:59 Tara Halwes <<a href="mailto:tarahalwes@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">tarahalwes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Never seen it do this before, is this normal after a power grid fart?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also please add me to Water List</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I will now call Adam and ask what to do…</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Tara</div><div dir="auto">508-361-9605</div>
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