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Topic: Protecting equipment during prolonged power failure
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Tony Bandiera Jr
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Posts: 3067
From: Moreland Idaho
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted 12-25-2018 11:40 AM
quote: Louis Bornwasser
Fresh thought: designate your cinema as a public area to be used in case of emergency. Apply for government assistance to install a serious generator with automatic on. Also, refrigerators, etc. 99.9% of the time you then have a cinema. When required, you have an emergency shelter for your local neighbors. I know of at least one Canadian cinema that did this.
Now that is one outstanding idea, that everyone who owns a cinema or other public space should consider.
Think of all the benefits: One, serving the community in a time of need, two, providing a safe gathering point so people can be accounted for readily (perhaps the POS system can be used to issue tickets to everyone to make a database easier?),three, providing shelter and safe water, food, etc., four, provide some form of entertainment to ease the stress of a disaster, etc...
And the theatre benefits from immunity to power outages that would ordinarily shut them down for a long time.
Even if government assistance is not available for the generator and associated electrical equipment, in most cases even a large complex can get by with a 200-500KvA generator (a quick way to figure out roughly what size is needed: go look at the transformer(s) serving the theatre..they are almost always marked with the KvA rating on them. It can be a simple number like "150" or "150kva".) For example, a 500KvA rated padmount:
A generator and associated transfer switch, while not cheap, is not so expensive that it couldn't be financed with a reasonable loan. Doing so will give the business a tax write-off as well. If memory serves, the cost was around $.75 - $1.20 per KvA for the generator, transfer switch and installation.
Another, less costly solution (though not the "instant" backup that a permanent generator would provide) is to install the transfer switch with appropriate means to connect a temporary generator from a rental firm. However, availability of a generator during a major outage or disaster is not guaranteed. But it would simply the process of getting the power if needed.
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