Reply to post: Make sure you connect the sense wire to the right side

Do you come from a land Down Under? Where diesel's low and techies blunder

John Sturdy
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Make sure you connect the sense wire to the right side

One (large) place where I worked had an automatic diesel generator set (ISO-container sized IIRC) set up to come on automatically on detecting loss of incoming mains, and off again once mains was restored.

I can't remember whether this was on a deliberate test, or a real mains failure, but the first time it detected loss of power and switched itself on... it immediately detected that the power was back, and switched itself off again.

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