TESCO / PG&E BPTM: Backup Power Transfer Meter
TESCO / PG&E BPTM: Backup Power Transfer Meter
Allows customers to safely power their house during a power outage.
Features:
- Utility-Focused Deployment: Designed for electric utilities seeking to provide backup power solutions to customers, it supports rapid deployment with scalable installation options.
- Seamless Smart Grid Integration: Fully compatible with SmartMeter systems for streamlined deployment and monitoring, it ensures a safe and reliable backup power connection without requiring complex wiring.
- Universal Backup Power Compatibility: Supports over 400 generator models, including major brands, and works with portable generators, battery storage systems, and select EVs (e.g., Ford F-150 Lightning).
- Enhanced Safety & Reliability: The built-in universal adapter allows customers to safely connect off-the-shelf backup power sources while providing a fail-safe connection to prevent accidental backfeeding into the grid.
- Optimized for Emergency Preparedness: Helping mitigate the impact of outages in high-risk areas, including fire-prone zones and EPSS-affected regions, it is ideal for residential homes, emergency responders, and critical facilities.
Product Description:
Easy and quick connection to a backup power source. Just connect the cable, turn on the generator, and let the backup power transfer meter do the switching.
Simplified electrical wiring. Installation will take just 45 minutes onsite by a PG&E technician. Installing an Auto-Transfer Switch (ATS) and subpanel not required.
Special features
When utility power is off, the backup power transfer meter can switch to generator power and it will automatically switch back to utility power when it becomes available.
With the backup power transfer meter, you can use your electrical panel to pick which appliances or rooms to power.
LED light indicator to show generator or utility power availability.
Specifications:
Physical Design:
- Diameter: 6.9 in
- Depth: 7.5 in (including meter)
- Weight: 4.6 lbs.
- Panel Style: 4 jaw, 200A, Ring type
Electrical Design:
- Utility Source: 200A, 120/240V, 3W
- Generator/ Backup Source: 30A, 120/240V, 3W and L14-30R twist lock receptacle
- Cable: 25’ cable with 30A overcurrent protection and L14-30P twist lock plug (comes with a backup power transfer meter)
- Applicable Standards: UL1008M, UL414, UL2735, ANSI12.20, and PG&E safety high voltage tests
Operational Design:
- Transfer: Break before make
- Switch Delay: 14 seconds to Generator, 6 seconds to utility
- Operation Cycle: Utility relays 10,000/Generator relays 5,000,000
- Operating Temperature: -22°F to 185°F (-30°C to 85°C)
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