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SECTION 262200

LOW-VOLTAGE TRANSFORMERS

1.1 PRODUCTS

A. General Transformer Requirements:

1. Coils: Aluminum Copper, continuous windings without splices except for taps.

B. Distribution Transformers:

1. Core: One leg per phase.

2. Coils: Aluminum Copper, continuous windings without splices except for taps.
3. Enclosure:

a. [Ventilated] [Totally enclosed, nonventilated].

b. [Type 2] [Type 3R] [and] [Type 4X, stainless steel].

4. Taps for Transformers Smaller than 3 kVA: None One 5 percent tap above
normal full capacity.
5. Taps for Transformers 7.5 to 24 kVA: One 5 percent tap above and one 5
percent tap below normal full capacity Two 5 percent taps below rated voltage.
6. Taps for Transformers 25 kVA and Larger: Two 2.5 percent taps above and two
four 2.5 percent taps below normal full capacity.
7. Insulation Class: 220 deg C, with maximum 150 115 80 deg C rise above 40
deg C.
8. Features:

a. K-factor rating.
b. Electrostatic shielding.
c. Neutral: Rated 200 percent of full load current for K-factor rated
transformers.
d. Wall brackets.
e. Fungus proofing.
f. Low sound level.

C. Buck-Boost Transformers: Self-cooled, two-winding dry type.

1. Coils: Aluminum Copper, continuous windings without splices except for taps.
2. Enclosure: Ventilated Encapsulated, NEMA 250, Type 2 NEMA 250, Type 3R
NEMA 250, Type 4 NEMA 250, Type 4X NEMA 250, Type 12 Insert other
NEMA 250 rating.

1.2 SOURCE QUALITY CONTROL

A. Transformers: Factory tested and inspected.

B. Factory Sound-Level Tests: Conduct sound-level tests on equipment for this Project
Conduct prototype sound-level tests on production-line products.

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1.3 FIELD QUALITY CONTROL

A. Testing: By Owner-engaged agency Contractor-engaged agency Contractor.

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SECTION 262300

LOW-VOLTAGE SWITCHGEAR

1.1 SUMMARY

A. Metal-enclosed, low-voltage, power circuit-breaker switchgear rated 1000 V and less

for use in ac systems.

1.2 PRODUCTS

A. Seismic Performance: Withstand effects of seismic movement.

1. Component Importance Factor: [1.5] [1.0].

B. Ratings:

1. Nominal System Voltage: [480 V, 3] [480/277 V, 4] [208 V, 3] [208/120 V, 4]

wire, 60 Hz.
2. Main-Bus Continuous: [4000] [3200] [2000] [1600] <Insert value> A.

C. Fabrication: Factory assembled and tested and complying with IEEE C37.20.1.

D. Indoor Enclosure: Steel.

E. Outdoor Enclosure: Galvanized steel.

1. Space heater.
2. Louvers for air circulation.
3. Hinged front door, interior light, and duplex receptacle.
4. Weatherproof internal aisle construction, with aisle access doors, space heaters,
lights, and duplex receptacles.

F. Section barriers between main and tie circuit-breaker compartments.

G. Bus isolation barriers.

H. Circuit-breaker compartments.

I. Removable, hinged, rear cover panels.

J. Auxiliary Compartments:

1. Utility metering compartment.

2. Bus transition sections.
3. Incoming-line pull sections.
4. Hinged front panels.
5. Pull box on top of switchgear.

K. Bus bars connect between vertical sections and between compartments.

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1. Neutral Bus: [50] [100] percent of phase-bus ampacity.

2. Phase and Neutral Bus: [Copper] [Silver- or tin-plated aluminum].
3. Copper ground bus.
4. Bus-bar insulation.

1.3 COMPONENTS

A. Circuit Breakers:

1. Operating Mechanism: Mechanically and electrically trip-free, stored-energy type.

a. Normal closing speed.

b. Slow closing speed.
c. Stored-Energy Mechanism: [Manually] [Electrically] charged.
d. Operation counter.

2. Solid-state trip devices.

3. Auxiliary contacts.
4. Padlocking provisions.
5. Operating handle.
6. Electric close button.
7. Mechanical interlocking.
8. Key interlocks.
9. Undervoltage Trip Devices: [Instantaneous] [Adjustable].
10. Shunt-trip devices.
11. Fused circuit breakers.
12. Indicating lights.

B. Arc-flash limiting circuit breakers.

C. Zone-selective interlocking.

D. Network protectors.

E. Surge Suppression: Factory Field installed.

F. Control Power Supply: 120-V ac 24-V dc.

G. Instrumentation and Control:

1. Web enabled.
2. Instrument Transformers:

a. Potential transformers.
b. Current transformers.
c. Voltmeters.

3. Analog instruments.
4. Meters.
5. Power monitoring.

H. Power Transfer Configuration: Two Three-breaker transfer control.

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I. Differential ground-fault protection.

J. Spare-fuse cabinet.

K. Identification: Mimic busarc-flash warning labels system power riser diagrams.

1.4 FIELD QUALITY CONTROL

A. Testing: By Owner-engaged agency Contractor-engaged agency Contractor.

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SECTION 262413

SWITCHBOARDS

1.1 PRODUCTS

A. Quality Standards: NEMA PB 2, NFPA 70, and UL 891.

B. Manufactured Units:

1. Front-connected, front-accessible switchboards.

a. Main Devices: [Panel] [Fixed, individually] mounted.

b. Branch Devices: Panel mounted.
c. Sections front and rear aligned.

2. Front- and side-accessible switchboards.

a. Main Devices: Fixed, individually mounted.

b. Branch Devices: Panel mounted.
c. Sections front and rear aligned.

3. Front- and rear-accessible switchboards.

a. Main Devices: [Fixed, individually] [Drawout] mounted.

b. Branch Devices: [Panel] [Fixed, individually] [Panel and fixed, individually]
[Fixed and individually compartmented] [Individually compartmented and
drawout] mounted.
c. Sections [front and rear] [rear] aligned.

4. Nominal System Voltage: 480Y/277 V 208Y/120 V Insert system voltage.

5. Main-Bus Continuous: 5000 4000 3000 2500 2000 1600 1200 Insert ampere
rating A.
6. Constructed to withstand seismic forces.
7. Indoor Enclosures: Steel, Type 1 Type 2.

a. Finish: [Standard gray] [Custom] color.

8. Outdoor Enclosures: Type 3R Type 3R, with interior-lighted walk-in aisle.

a. Finish: [Standard] [Custom].

b. Enclosure: [Flat] [Downward, rearward sloping] roof; [bolt-on rear covers]
[rear hinged doors], with provisions for padlocking.
c. Doors: [30 inches] <Insert value>; opening outwards; with panic hardware
and provisions for [padlocking] [cylinder lock].
d. Accessories: Fluorescent lighting fixtures, ceiling mounted; wired to a
three-way light switch at each end of aisle; ground-fault circuit interrupter
(GFCI) duplex receptacle; emergency battery pack lighting fixture installed
on wall of aisle midway between personnel doors.
e. Walk-in aisle heating and ventilating.

9. Barriers: Between adjacent switchboard sections.

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10. Insulation and Isolation: Main bus of main section and main and vertical buses of
feeder sections.
11. Cubical space heaters.
12. Utility metering compartment.
13. Customer metering compartment.
14. Bus transition and incoming pull sections.
15. Removable, hinged rear doors and compartment covers.
16. Hinged front panels.
17. Pull box on top of switchboard.
18. Buses and Connections: Three phase, four wire, plus ground; copper tin-plated
aluminum.
19. Future device provisions.
20. Bus-bar insulation.
21. Fungus proofing.

C. Surge Protection Devices:

1. Peak Surge Current Rating: Minimum single-pulse surge current withstand rating
per phase not less than 200 kA 250kA 300 kA Insert value.
2. Protection modes and grounded wye circuits with 480Y/277 V 208Y/120 V,
three-phase, four-wire circuits shall be as follows:

a. Line to Neutral: [1200 V for 480Y/277 V] [700 V for 208Y/120 V].

b. Line to Ground: [1200 V for 480Y/277 V] [700 V for 208Y/120 V].
c. Neutral to Ground: [1200 V for 480Y/277 V] [700 V for 208Y/120 V].

3. Protection modes and 240/120-V, three-phase, four-wire circuits with high leg
shall be as follows:

a. Line to Neutral: 700 V.

b. Line to Ground: [700 V] [1000 V].
c. Neutral to Ground: 1000 V.

4. SCCR: Equal or exceed 100 kA 200 kA Insert value.

D. Disconnecting and Overcurrent Protective Devices:

1. Molded-case circuit breaker (MCCB), with series-connected rating interrupting

capacity to meet available fault currents.

a. Lugs: [Mechanical] [Compression] style.

b. Ground-Fault Protection: [Integrally mounted] [Remote mounted].
c. Zone-selective interlocking.
d. Communication Capability: [Circuit-breaker-mounted] [Universal-mounted]
[Integral] [Din-rail-mounted] communication module.
e. Shunt trip.
f. Undervoltage trip.
g. Auxiliary Contacts: [One SPDT switch] [Two SPDT switches].
h. Key interlock kit.

2. Insulated-Case Circuit Breaker (ICCB): 80 100 percent rated, fixed drawout

mounting.

a. [Fixed] [Drawout] circuit-breaker mounting.

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b. [Standard-] [Full-]function microprocessor-based trip units.

c. Control Voltage: [40-V dc] [125-V dc] [250-V dc] [120-V ac].

3. Bolted-Pressure Contact Switch: Rotary-mechanical-bolting action, electrical

mechanical trip, with auxiliary switches, integrally mounted remote-mounted
ground-fault relay, and open-fuse trip device.
4. High-Pressure, Butt-Type Contact Switch: Butt-type contacts, electrical
mechanical trip, with auxiliary switches, integrally mounted remote-mounted
ground-fault relay, and open-fuse trip device.
5. Fused Switch: NEMA KS 1, Type HD.

E. Instrumentation:

1. Potential transformers.
2. Current transformers.
3. Control-power transformers.
4. Current transformers for neutral and ground-fault current sensing.
5. Multifunction digital-metering monitor.
6. Ammeters, voltmeters, and power-factor meters.
7. Instrument switches.
8. Feeder ammeters.
9. Watt-hour meters and wattmeters.
10. Impulse-totalizing demand meter.

F. Control Power: 120-V ac [Insert value-V dc] with electrically interlocked main and tie
circuit breakers.

G. Accessories:

1. Accessory set including tools.

2. Portable test set.
3. Circuit-Breaker Removal Mechanism: Portable Overhead lifting device.
4. Spare-fuse cabinet.

H. Identification:

1. Mimic bus photoengraved nameplate engraved laminated-plastic nameplate

continuously integrated, factory applied to front of switchboard.
2. Painted graphics.
3. Service equipment label.

1.2 FIELD QUALITY CONTROL

A. Testing: By Owner-engaged agency Contractor-engaged agency Contractor.

B. Tests: Infrared scanning, ground-fault protection, and NETA ATS.

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SECTION 262416

PANELBOARDS

1.1 QUALITY ASSURANCE

A. Manufacturer Qualifications: ISO 9001 or 9002 certified.

1.2 WARRANTY

A. Panelboards: 18 Insert number months.

B. SPD: Five Insert number years.

1.3 PRODUCTS

A. General Requirements for Panelboards:

1. Constructed to withstand seismic forces.

2. Enclosures: Flush and Surface mounted.

a. Front: Secured with concealed trim clamps Hinged cover.

b. Optional Enclosure Features: Skirt for surface-mounted panelboards gutter
extension and barrier column-type panelboards with narrow gutter
extension and cover to overhead junction box and fungus proofing.
c. Directory card.

3. Incoming Mains: Top Bottom Convertible between top and bottom.

4. Phase, Neutral, and Ground Buses: Tin-plated aluminum Copper.

a. Optional Buses: Equipment ground isolated ground full-sized neutral extra-

capacity neutral and split bus.

5. Conductor Connectors:

a. Material: Tin-plated aluminum Hard-drawn copper.

b. Main and Neutral Lugs: Compression Mechanical type.
c. Ground Lugs and Bus-Configured Terminators: Compression Mechanical
type.
d. Feed-Through Subfeed (Double) Lugs: Compression Mechanical type.
e. Gutter Tap Lugs: Compression Mechanical type.
f. Extra-Capacity Neutral Lugs: Rated 200 percent of phase lugs.

6. Percentage of Future Space Capacity: Five Ten 20 Insert number percent.

7. Service equipment label for panelboards incorporating one or more main service
disconnecting and overcurrent protective devices.

B. Panelboard Short-Circuit Current Rating: Rated for series-connected system with

integral or remote upstream overcurrent protective devices Fully rated to interrupt
symmetrical short-circuit current available at terminals.
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1. Mains: Circuit breaker Fused switch Lugs only.

2. Branch Overcurrent Protective Devices for Circuit-Breaker Frame Sizes 125 A
and Smaller: Plug-in circuit breakers Bolt-on circuit breakers Plug-in circuit
breakers where individual positive-locking device requires mechanical release for
removal.
3. Branch Overcurrent Protective Devices for Circuit-Breaker Frame Sizes Larger
than 125 A: Bolt-on circuit breakers Plug-in circuit breakers where individual
positive-locking device requires mechanical release for removal.
4. Branch Overcurrent Protective Devices: Fused switches.
5. Contactors in Main Bus: Control-power transformer 120-V 24-V control-power
source.
6. Contactors in Main Bus: Electrically Mechanically held, general-purpose
controller, with same short-circuit interrupting rating as panelboard.

a. Control-power transformer for internal control-power source.

b. [120-V branch circuit] [24-V control circuit] <Insert requirement> external
control-power source.

C. Lighting and Appliance Branch-Circuit Panelboards:

1. Mains: Circuit breaker or lugs only.

2. Branch Overcurrent Protective Devices: Plug-in Bolt-on circuit-breaker type.
3. Contactors in Main Bus: Electrically Mechanically held, general-purpose
controller, with same short-circuit interrupting rating as panelboard.

a. Control-power transformer for internal control-power source.

b. [120-V branch circuit] [24-V control circuit] <Insert requirement> external
control-power source.

4. Doors: Concealed hinge Door in door construction with concealed hinges.

5. Column-Type Panelboards: Single row of overcurrent devices with narrow gutter
extension and overhead junction box equipped with ground and neutral terminal
buses.

D. Load Centers:

1. Mains: Circuit breaker or lugs only.

2. Branch Circuit Breakers: Plug-in.
3. Doors: Concealed hinge.
4. Conductor Connectors: Mechanical type.

E. Electronic-Grade Panelboards:

1. Doors: Secured with vault-type latch.

2. Bolt-on, thermal-magnetic circuit-breaker main and branch overcurrent protective
devices.
3. Built-in SPDs.

a. Peak Single-Impulse Surge Current Rating: Not less than 100 kA Insert
value; the arithmetic sum of the ratings of the individual MOVs in a given
mode.
b. Protection modes and VPR for grounded wye circuits with 480Y/277 V
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1) Line to Neutral: 1200 V for 480Y/277 V 700 V for 208Y/120 V.

2) Line to Ground: 1200 V for 480Y/277 V 700 V for 208Y/120 V.
3) Neutral to Ground: 1200 V for 480Y/277 V 700 V for 208Y/120 V.
4) Line to Line: 2000 V for 480Y/277 V 1200 V for 208Y/120 V.

c. Protection modes and UL 1449 VPR for 240/120-V, single-phase, three-

wire circuits shall not exceed the following:

1) Line to Neutral: 700 V.

2) Line to Ground: 700 V.
3) Neutral to Ground: 700 V.
4) Line to Line: 1200 V.

d. SCCR: Equal to the SCCR of the panelboard in which installed or exceed

100 kA or exceed 200 kA [or exceed <Insert value>].
e. Inominal Rating: 20 kA 10 kA.

F. Disconnecting and Overcurrent Protective Devices:

1. MCCB: Series-connected rating Interrupting capacity.

a. Circuit Breakers: Thermal-magnetic adjustable instantaneous-trip

electronic-trip current-limiting GFCI GFEP and AFCI types.
b. MCCB Features and Accessories:

1) Lugs: Compression Mechanical style.

2) Appropriate for Application: Type SWD for switching fluorescent
lighting loads; Type HID for feeding fluorescent and HID lighting
circuits.
3) Ground-Fault Protection: Integrally mounted Remote-mounted relay
and trip unit.
4) Communication Capability: Circuit-breaker-mounted Universal-
mounted Integral Din-rail-mounted communication module.
5) Shunt Trip: 120-V 24-V Insert voltage trip coil.
6) Shunt Trip: 120-V 24-V trip coil energized from separate circuit, set
to trip at 55 75 percent of rated voltage.
7) Undervoltage Trip: Without intentional With field-adjustable 0.1- to
0.6-second time delay.
8) Rating Plugs: Three-pole breakers with ratings greater than 150 A
Insert value.
9) Auxiliary Contacts: One SPDT switch Two SPDT switches.
10) Key interlock kit.
11) Zone-selective interlocking.
12) Multipole units enclosed in a [single housing with a single handle]
[or] [factory assembled to operate as a single unit].
13) Handle [padlocking devices] [and] [clamps].

2. Type-HD fused switch.

G. Identification:

1. Panelboard labels.
2. Breaker labels.

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3. Circuit Directory: Computer generated, [transparent card holder] [metal frame

with transparent protective cover].

H. Accessories:

1. Accessory set including tools.

2. Portable test set.

1.4 FIELD QUALITY CONTROL

A. Testing: By Owner-engaged agency Contractor-engaged agency Contractor.

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SECTION 262713

ELECTRICITY METERING

1.1 SOFTWARE SERVICE AGREEMENT

A. Technical Support: Two Insert number years.

B. Upgrade Service: Two Insert number years.

1.2 EQUIPMENT FOR ELECTRICITY METERING BY UTILITY COMPANY

A. Utility-company-compliant, current-transformer cabinets.

B. Meter sockets.

C. Modular Meter Center: Factory-coordinated assembly includes a main service terminal

box with lugs only disconnect device, tenant meter socket modules, and tenant feeder
circuit breakers.

1. Minimum Short-Circuit Rating: 22,000 42,000 65,000 100,000 Insert number A

symmetrical at rated voltage.
2. Main Disconnect Device: Circuit breaker Fusible switch Surge protection device.
3. Tenant Feeder Circuit Breakers: Series-combination rated to protect circuit
breakers in downstream panelboards that have 10,000-A interrupting capacity.

1.3 ELECTRICITY METERS

A. Accuracy: 0.2 0.5 1.0 percent of reading.

B. Kilowatt-Hour Meter: Electronic single three single- and three-phase meters, measuring
electricity used. Digital LCD.

C. Kilowatt-Hour/Demand Meter: Electronic single three single- and three-phase meters,

measuring electricity use and demand. Digital LCD, including historic peak demand.

1. Demand Signal Communication Interface: Match signal to remote building

automation system Insert signal destination.
2. Programmable contact module.
3. Memory Backup: Self-contained to maintain memory throughout power outages
of 72 hours, minimum.

D. Data Transmission: Transmit KY KYZ pulse data over Class 1 control-circuit

conductors in raceway.

E. Software: PC based, suitable for calculation of utility cost allocation and billing.

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