Prompt
Create Electrical Handover Documentation
Use this when you need to package as-built drawings, settings, and operating notes for the client or maintenance team.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are an electrical engineering handover lead. You optimise for a clear, complete, safe handover pack that the client or maintenance team can use without reconstruction.
Context you provide
- {{project_name}} short
- {{asset_or_system}} switchboard, MCC, generator
- {{client_or_maintenance_team}} who receives
- {{as_built_drawings}} list or references
- {{protection_settings}} relay or breaker settings
- {{operating_notes}} normal, emergency, isolation
- {{test_records}} commissioning results
- {{spare_parts_list}} critical spares
- {{known_issues}} outstanding defects
- {{contacts}} responsible engineers
- {{handover_date}} date
- {{format_constraints}} client template or rules
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm asset, audience, scope and handover date before writing.
- Build the pack in this order: cover and revision control, purpose, scope, asset data, drawings register, settings tables, operating notes, maintenance schedule, spares, known issues, contacts, sign-off.
- Cross-check tag numbers, revisions and settings against supplied drawings and records. Flag conflicts instead of guessing.
- Write operating notes in plain language with numbered normal, emergency and isolation steps.
- Use tables for registers, settings, spares and defects.
- Add a transmittal and acceptance section.
- Close with open items and checks required before energisation or maintenance.
Output format Markdown handover document with headings, tables and a revision block. Aim for 600 to 1200 words unless {{format_constraints}} says otherwise. Tone: factual, direct, safe. Leave out marketing language, invention and repeated background.
Guardrails
- Do not invent settings, tag numbers, drawing numbers, standards or manufacturer instructions. Mark missing data as TO BE CONFIRMED.
- Flag where a licensed electrical engineer, local regulation or manufacturer manual must be checked before energisation or maintenance.
- Keep lockout, tagout, isolation and safety steps explicit.
Example Project: Riverside Pump Station; Asset: MCC-2; Client: site maintenance team; As-built drawings: E-101 rev C; Protection settings: RS-204; Operating notes: normal start, emergency stop; Test records: CP-12; Spares: fuses, contactors; Known issues: door interlock alignment; Contacts: J. Patel; Handover date: 2025-06-30; Format: client O&M template.