3ATSA20600FG0C Series 300 - ASCO | Automatic, 600 AMP

The ASCO Series 300 is a UL 1008-listed automatic transfer switch built for commercial, institutional and light-industrial standby power. It monitors both the utility and the generator source and transfers the load automatically when the normal source falls outside acceptable limits, then returns it once the utility is restored and stable. This unit is rated 600 A, 240V, 2-pole, NEMA 1, open transition. Typical loads are a central plant, a multi-tenant distribution section, a water or wastewater pump station, or a process line — installations where the switch is a free-standing assembly and fault coordination with the service equipment matters as much as the transfer function. The NEMA 1 enclosure is intended for indoor installation in a dry, protected space such as a mechanical room or an electrical closet. Terminations and footprint. Two conductors per pole from 2/0 AWG to 600 kcmil, in a 24 in by 63 in by 17 in free-standing enclosure weighing 300 to 320 lb. At 600 A the switch normally sits on a housekeeping pad beside the service equipment rather than on a wall, the feeder is pulled with a rope and a tugger, and the terminations are laid out so they stay reachable with the line side energised. Two 600 kcmil per phase is a stiff pull — plan the conduit body and the bend radius before the concrete is poured. Service arrangement. Two-pole 120/240 V single-phase: two ungrounded conductors and a grounded neutral, the arrangement behind nearly every North American dwelling and behind small shops on a split-phase service. Only two poles switch, so a solid-neutral unit carries the grounded conductor straight through while a switched-neutral unit opens it — which is what you want when the generator is treated as a separately derived source and the neutral must be broken to keep the two grounding electrodes apart. Neutral configuration. The grounded conductor is solid: it runs straight through on a bolted neutral plate and is never opened. That is the correct choice when the transfer switch is not a separately derived source — the generator neutral is bonded to the same grounding electrode system as the utility, so the neutral is one continuous current-carrying conductor end to end and breaking it would serve no purpose. It is also the cheaper of the two arrangements and has one fewer set of moving contacts to inspect, which is why it is the default on most commercial retrofits where the existing service neutral is already bonded. Enclosure. The Type 1 cabinet is for indoor use in a dry, protected space — a mechanical room, an electrical closet, a plant room — where the only thing it has to keep out is incidental dust and the occasional touch. It is not rain-tight and not watertight: mounting one on an exterior wall, even under a soffit, invites water in through the door seam and the conduit knockouts, and the first sign is usually a rusted mechanism rather than a tripped breaker. If the switch has to live outdoors, the 3R version of the same rating is the one to order. Matching generator. At 240V with an 0.8 power factor this switch carries approximately 115 kW of load (600 A × 240V × 0.8 = 115.2 kW, single-phase two-wire). Size the standby generator so that its standby rating meets or exceeds that figure, and confirm the generator's two-wire automatic-start contacts are compatible with the transfer switch controller. Controller. This unit carries the ASCO Group G controller: a 128 × 64 graphical LCD with switch-position, source-availability, common-alarm and not-in-auto indication. Transfer and re-transfer delays, engine cool-down and the in-phase transfer timer are all set from the membrane keypad rather than from DIP switches, with ranges up to 60 min 59 s. The Group G controller supports both open transition and delayed transition, and accessory 11BE adds RS-485 communication at 9,600–115,200 bps, a seven-period programmable exerciser and a 300-event log. Two-pole configuration. Both the hot and the neutral are switched, which is the normal choice for 120/240 V single-phase residential and light-commercial services and for any circuit derived from a separately derived source. Supply. Supplied as a genuine ASCO Power Technologies (Schneider Electric) unit, brand new and factory original, packed for export from our Dongguan warehouse. Ask us for the outline drawing, wiring diagram and data sheet for this exact catalog number.