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  1. davidbeach

    Transmission Line Geometry and Impedance/Losses

    Looks like 5 single conductors, not bundles. What's the cost of the transformation between the special 5 phase line and the surrounding 3-phase system? That's got to eat up most of the "savings", the rest of them likely consumed by 5 pole breakers (although that might be an advantage of live...
  2. davidbeach

    Disconnect sizing question

    Not so fast down playing the fault current level. Go with what the utility says. If that 500kVA is comprised of three 167kVA cans they might have impedances closer to 2%.
  3. davidbeach

    UPS Load Test

    Once did a comprehensive commissioning test of a data center that included a 300kW UPS. In order to test out everything, UPS, HVAC, etc. the contractor had to go purchase a pallet load (200) of 1.5kW heaters. All plugged in and all on high. 300kW of heat being dumped into the room. HVAC...
  4. davidbeach

    Spain and Portugal power grid collapse | Report Released

    I like rotating mass, but batteries may actually allow a system to remain functional with little inertia. One of the reasons is that batteries can “spin up” much faster than any conventional rotating generation and available wind and solar probably has no headroom. There have been events where...
  5. davidbeach

    FIU Bridge Update - New Bridge Has Broken Ground

    Lifts = Elevators 🙄
  6. davidbeach

    Spain and Portugal power grid collapse | Report Released

    Probably all going to turn out that all the resources should have been in Volt var control rather than in power factor control.
  7. davidbeach

    Directly from 30 kV to 0.4 kV? Or step down the voltage in stages, typically from 30 kV to 6 kV, then from 6 kV to 0.4 kV.

    Lots and lots of installations with 34.5kV to 690V or 480V transformers, so "most cases" is probably not accurate. Probably depends on many factors including local custom.
  8. davidbeach

    Transformer operations

    How much does top oil temperature vary with that cycle?
  9. davidbeach

    Transformer test report - zero sequence values

    A bit closer than Dave's 85% is R0 = R1 and X0 = 0.85 * X1. But that's for generic core form 3-phase transformer with three legs. More legs (but unusual on a DY), shell form, or a bank of three single phase units result in X0 = X1. Some designs and material selections can also push that 0.85...
  10. davidbeach

    Inrush current of transformer

    Did you ever look at a raw event capture of that? You don't see the load initially, all you see is all the transformers being energized (aka inrush). Yeah, there's a bunch more load to carry for the first bit than there was before the circuit tripped, but most of what a cold load setting...
  11. davidbeach

    L-G Fault Zero Sequence Current in un-faulted phases

    The zero sequence current in each phase is identical to the zero sequence current in the other two phases. The positive sequence current in each phase has the same magnitude as that in each of the other two phases with an angular difference such that A leads B leads C by 120 degrees each...
  12. davidbeach

    VFD(VSD) on sluice gates

    Single phase to three phase at the same voltage level seems a heck of a lot more doable that single phase to three phase at twice the voltage level. How is a DC bus fed at 120 VAC going to have enough oomph to fire at 240V phase-phase?
  13. davidbeach

    Maximum Temperature Rise for Fused Disconnect

    "milli-volts across"...?
  14. davidbeach

    Excitation current on induction motor as a generator via VFD

    Since an induction generator only generates power, but not voltage, where's the voltage going to come from? Even with caps to supply vars, there needs to be a solid voltage source to get any meaningful amount of power out of the generator. Don't think that's something the VFD can do. But I...
  15. davidbeach

    Carbon River Fairfax Bridge - Closed

    That will take pressure off the understaffed park.
  16. davidbeach

    Heat treatment machine power supply issue

    A transformer.
  17. davidbeach

    Equipment Ground Conductor (EGC) on delta system with a grounding transformer

    I agree with Bill about the shield. A concentric neutral, might, maybe, be used as the ECG. Admittedly, it's been 20 years since I worked on the NEC side of the meter, but at that point there weren't any concentric neutral cables NTRL listed as 2 conductor assemblies. There were single...
  18. davidbeach

    Dominican Republic Nigh Club Roof Collapse

    There's a wide array of image sources and image qualities in Google Earth. Yes, there is undoubtedly a base of satellite imagery, but given the wide variety of sources and image quality it seems there's also a variety of elevations and focal lengths involved. If the image angle of power poles...
  19. davidbeach

    Dominican Republic Nigh Club Roof Collapse

    That's what they say. Ever actually pondered any of that imagery? If, for instance, the images are from satellites rather than vastly lower airplanes, why do the images of power poles tip soooooo far away from the base? Those images are from a few thousand feet at most. Certainly well below...
  20. davidbeach

    Dominican Republic Nigh Club Roof Collapse

    It was never satellite imagery.... geesh....

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