A wide variety of common calamities can cause long-lasting power outages. Things such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, lightning, blizzards and blizzards can knock out power for many hours or days. Even a simple transformer that bursts or any vehicle that hits a utility pole can knock out power to an entire neighborhood in a day or even two days.
Almost all people depend on electricity, therefore a power outage for a period of a few minutes is quite irritating. When the power outage extends beyond an hour, more serious problems can occur that can damage things or become costly or dangerous. During the winter season, power outages usually immobilize your home’s heating system. As the house cools (depending on the location of your residence), it may not be fit to live in. Additionally, cold pipes can cause thousands of dollars worth of damage.
During a power outage, refrigerators and freezers stop working. During the summer, frozen foods go soft and can cause a real mess. If you invested in the beef business, the losses can be as high as a thousand dollars or more if there is a power outage for many days. If you are sick and your medical condition requires special equipment, power failure can create a life or death situation. For example, the patient is comatose in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the patient may die in the event that there is no backup generator if there is ever a power outage.
If you live in a rural area that has a private well as its water source, the power outage cuts off the water supply. The electric generator is a device that converts mechanical force into electrical force. The mechanical energy that is converted is created from nuclear and chemical force in various types of fuel, or is taken from renewable sources such as falling water or wind. Electric motors, internal combustion engines, steam engines, gas combustion turbines, hydraulic and wind motors are the usual means of providing automatic power to such devices.
Generators are available in a wide range of sizes, from very small machines that have few watts of power output to extremely large power plant kits that provide large watts of power. The operation of power generators is based on the occurrence of electromagnetic induction when a conductor moves through the magnetic field, current is stimulated in the conductor. Generator sets are the most widespread type of emergency backup power source for homes and businesses.
The electromagnet is made up of field coils attached to an iron core. The current flowing into the field loops creates the magnetic fields. This current can be taken from an external source or from the system armature. Regulation is achieved by sensing the production voltage, switching it to DC, and comparing the level to the reference electrical power.