Think IN the BattleBox UPDATED 22 July 2010 Strategic Capabilities: ISO Container 'BattleBoxes TM': Containerize the entire U.S. Army www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qdHqBKbaAI Slide 6a of 48 'The ultimate objective of an army is to impose its collective will on the enemy. But its first mission is simply to exist. Its first problem is to feed and clothe and shelter itself, and to be able to move itself from one place to another.

Most people think of an army as expending its energy in fighting the enemy. Actually, most of an army's energy goes into keeping itself alive and in being; and in getting itself to where a very small portion of its numbers can fight an equally small portion of the enemy's total army. As soon as we won in Tunisia, we had no place for our army to fight the Reichswehr. But even when Rommel's armies were still terrible, a surprisingly small portion of the Allied 'armed forces' in Africa was engaged in fighting it.

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And of those who are entitled to battle stars on their ribbons, only a small fraction were killing in the literal sense. And even the killers spent most of their time --I would guess an average of twenty-two hours out of twenty-four-- in house-keeping for themselves, and in moving from one place to another. Yet the whole effect of the army is as integrated as the 'shaft and the head and the point of the tip of a spear.' A human being is such a frail thing that he cannot live more than a few days without both food and sleep. Nature is still his real enemy even though he takes his eternal struggle with her for granted. So the army as a whole must survive against nature before it can harm a single enemy by surviving and moving itself from one place to another is ninety per cent of the army's business, and unless it does this well it is not an army. The army solves its problems of surviving by two dull words: organization and standardization --and an enormous personal effort and submergence of the individual will to the collective welfare.'

- Captain Ralph Ingersoll, The Battle is the Pay-Off; 1943; pp. 84-85 Regarding operations of U.S. Army Rangers and the 1 st Infantry Division near El Quettar, Tunisia in early 1943.

A portable emergency power generator in a shipping container An emergency power system is an independent source of electrical power that supports important electrical systems on loss of normal power supply. A standby power system may include a, batteries and other apparatus. Emergency power systems are installed to protect life and property from the consequences of loss of primary electric power supply. They find uses in a wide variety of settings from homes to, scientific laboratories,, equipment and ships. Emergency power systems can rely on,,.

Contents • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Emergency power systems were used as early as on naval ships. In combat, a ship may lose the function of its boilers, which power the for the. In such a case, one or more are used to drive back-up generators. Early relied on manual operation; two switches would be placed horizontally, in line and the 'on' position facing each other. A rod is placed in between. In order to operate the switch one source must be turned off, the rod moved to the other side and the other source turned on. Operation in buildings [ ].

Emergency power in a water purification plant, driven by a can be lost due to downed lines, malfunctions at a sub-station, inclement weather, planned or in extreme cases a -wide failure. In modern buildings, most emergency power systems have been and are still based on.

Usually, these generators are Diesel engine driven, although smaller buildings may use a driven generator and larger ones a. However, lately, more use is being made of and other technologies such as.

These latter systems do not produce polluting gases, thereby allowing the placement to be done within the building. Also, as a second advantage, they do not require a separate shed to be built for fuel storage.

With regular generators, an automatic is used to connect emergency power. One side is connected to both the normal power feed and the emergency power feed; and the other side is connected to the load designated as emergency. If no electricity comes in on the normal side, the transfer switch uses a solenoid to throw a triple pole, single throw switch.

This switches the feed from normal to emergency power. The loss of normal power also triggers a battery operated to start the generator, similar to using a car battery to start an engine. Once the transfer switch is switched and the generator starts, the building's emergency power comes back on (after going off when normal power was lost).

Unlike, emergency lighting is not a type of light fixture; it is a pattern of the building's normal lights that provides a path of lights to allow for safe exit, or lights up service areas such as mechanical rooms and electric rooms., (that are not on back up batteries) and the electric motor pumps for the are almost always on emergency power. Other equipment on emergency power may include smoke isolation dampers, smoke evacuation fans, elevators, handicap doors and outlets in service areas.

Hospitals use emergency power outlets to power systems and monitoring equipment. Some buildings may even use emergency power as part of normal operations, such as a theater using it to power show equipment because '.' Operation in aviation [ ],, and other instrument landing aids (such as microwave transmitters) are both high power consumers and mission-critical, and cannot be reliably operated from a battery supply, even for short periods. Hence, when absolute reliability is required (such as when Category 3 operations are in force at the airport) it is usual to run the system from a with automatic switchover to the mains supply should the generator fail. This avoids any interruption to transmission while a generator is brought up to operating speed. This is opposed to the typical view of emergency power systems, where the backup generators are seen as secondary to the mains electrical supply. Electronic device protection [ ] Computers, communication networks, and other modern electronic devices need not only power, but also a steady flow of it to continue to operate.

If the source voltage drops significantly or drops out completely, these devices will fail, even if the power loss is only for a fraction of a second. Because of this, even a generator back-up does not provide protection because of the start-up time involved. To achieve more comprehensive loss protection, extra equipment such as,, or sometimes a complete (UPS) is used. UPS systems can be local (to one device or one power outlet) or may extend building-wide.

A local UPS is a small box that fits under a desk or a telecom rack and powers a small number of devices. A building-wide UPS may take any of several different forms, depending on the application. It directly feeds a system of outlets designated as UPS feed and can power a large number of devices. Since use DC, the building's is generally wired directly to the consuming equipment and floats continuously on the output of the rectifiers that normally supply DC rectified from utility power. When utility power fails, the battery carries the load without needing to switch. With this simple though somewhat expensive system, some exchanges have never lost power for a moment since the 1920s. Structure and operation in utility stations [ ].

Diagram of a redundant power supply system. In recent years, large units of a utility power station are usually designed on a unit system basis in which the required devices, including the boiler, the turbine generator unit, and its power (step up) and unit (auxiliary) are solidly connected as one unit. A less common set-up consists of two units grouped together with one common station auxiliary.

As each turbine generator unit has its own attached unit auxiliary transformer, it is connected to the circuit automatically. For starting the unit, the auxiliaries are supplied with power by another unit (auxiliary) transformer or station auxiliary transformer. The period of switching from the first unit transformer to the next unit is designed for automatic, instantaneous operation in times when the emergency power system needs to kick in. It is imperative that the power to unit auxiliaries not fail during a station shutdown (an occurrence known as when all regular units temporarily fail).

Instead, during shutdowns the is expected to remain operational. When problems occur, it is usually due to reverse power relays and frequency-operated relays on grid lines due to severe grid disturbances. Under these circumstances, the emergency station supply must kick in to avoid damage to any equipment and to prevent hazardous situations such as the release of gas from generators to the local environment. In nuclear power plants [ ]. This section needs attention from an expert in energy. Please add a reason or a talk parameter to this template to explain the issue with the section.

May be able to help recruit an expert. (February 2009) Emergency power systems, called there Emergency Diesel Generators (EDGs), are a required feature in.

They are typically installed in sets of three. The EDG installation is designed to the same safety-grade requirements as the other safety systems in the plant.

The next (upcoming) generation of nuclear power plants includes some designs with multiple independent banks of EDGs (as in the ). Controlling the emergency power system [ ] For a 208 VAC emergency supply system, a central battery system with automatic controls, located in the power station building, is used to avoid long electric supply wires. Free Download Nas Illmatic Rar Zip Programs. Download Softune Workbench V 3601 there. This central battery system consists of cell units to make up a 12 or 24 VDC system as well as stand-by cells, each with its own battery charging unit.

Also needed are a voltage sensing unit capable of receiving 208 VAC and an automatic system that is able to signal to and activate the emergency supply circuit in case of failure of 208 VAC station supply. References [ ].