Distributed Power Systems in Revit MEP (Part 2)

Here's the second of a pair of posts coming from Chuck Jolin, Senior Consultant with IMAGINiT out of our Denver office, working through Revit MEP's capability to distribute a project's electrical loads to a central electrical panel.
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In part one of this series we explored Revit MEP’s capability of circuiting electrical panels into other panels with equivalent distribution systems, thereby distributing a project's electrical loads to a central electrical panel.

Here's the previous Panel Diagram:

 

 
To continue this process we are going to look at transformers and their role in distributing panel loads of unequal values to our central electrical panel. Here's the previous post's panel MD-1:

 

Transformers contain primary and secondary distribution system assignments. Dual distribution systems allow an electrical designer to circuit 102/208V electrical panels into the transformer and then circuit the transformer into a 277/480V central electrical panel.
 

While the transformer serves the role of an electrical panel when circuiting electrical loads it cannot provide a panel schedule of the connected load.  Here we can see the circuit and load information on the transformer in an Electrical Circuit Schedule.
 

These loads in turn are transferred to the central electrical panel.
 

I hope you've found this information useful!