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Florida blackout
I heard from a colleague today that a Test Engineer disabled the protection on a 138kV reactor following a differential operation. He also disabled the switch/breaker failure and was apparently 'testing' the reactor because it was determined (incorrectly) that the original operation was not...- gapowermike
- Post #19
- Forum: Electric power & transmission & distribution
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Florida blackout
Anything new on this? I'm particularly interested in chain of events with regard to disabling protection for testing. It seems like breaker failure or back up (Z3/Z4) distance would have prevented the widespread outage. Michael- gapowermike
- Post #18
- Forum: Electric power & transmission & distribution
