Properly maintaining your electrical equipment requires planned outages. It’s important to understand the demands — test all equipment, make enough repairs to justify the outage, get equipment recharged as soon as possible — as well as the risks associated with returning to service.
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Read this post on CBS ArcSafe to learn the real-world risk factors of returning an electrical system to service and the best practices to follow to reduce or eliminate risks.