A follow-up to my August 2011 generator test video. Every six months (unless we've had a power failure in the mean time) we perform a load test of our main standby generator at the office. Rather than hiring a dummy load, we just use the electrical equipment in the office itself, which also gives us a chance to identify any "trigger-happy" breakers within the building.

We don't perform a full-load test, but a combination of all the lighting, air conditioning and the IT server room gives us around 150kW to play with; almost a 40% load.

Original video:    • Testing a rather beefy generator