A More Resilient Electrical System Design

The resilience of your facility depends on your system design.

A centralized system design using breaker gear can result in a single point of failure for your customers. Because the system isn’t capable of isolating faults, one problem in any area can cause an entire campus to lose power:

Animated gif of a two-story building with a centralized electrical system design. A fault occurs on one of the two electrical lines that are connected to the system’s circuit breaker. The fault causes all the building’s lights to turn off.

One-line diagram of a two-source centralized electrical system. The upper left source, in blue, feeds into a large square, which feeds into four smaller squares, each with a blue arrow descending from it. The upper right source, in orange, feeds into a separate large square and then into four smaller squares with orange arrows descending. In the middle of the line that connects the two large squares is another large square, labeled “N.O.”

But a distributed system with Vista switchgear dispersed throughout:

Isolates faults to the impacted area
Reroutes power from an alternate source to energize unaffected sections

Animated gif of the same two-story building used in the centralized design gif. This building has a distributed electrical system design, with six green Vista switchgear boxes distributed around the building’s outside, connected by orange and blue lines. A fault occurs on one of the electrical lines and causes all the building’s lights to turn off momentarily. The distributed system re-energizes the faulted lines using the alternate power source and the building’s lights come back on.

One-line diagram of a two-source centralized electrical system. The upper left source, in blue, feeds into four discrete green rectangles, each with an icon that represents switchgear and each with a blue arrow descending from it. The upper right source, in orange, mirrors this configuration. In the middle of the two sources is text that reads “N.O.”

Check out this video for a more in-depth look at the benefits of distributed systems over centralized systems.

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Distributed system designs are highly configurable. To see more examples, download our guidebook.

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A More Resilient Electrical System Design

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