You need to reconnect the internal connections for full transformer capacity. You could make the connections externally but with only half capacity available since you'd be only using half the winding. I've done a hundred of these myself - half day if you are short on coffee in the morning, a...
If the secondary isolation links were shorting the CT terminals and you connected a low-burden revenue meter the current would divide based on the ratio of impedances of the parallel paths. No way to know what percentage of the load the meter was registering unless you measure the impedance of...
excitation from the grid connection - min flow unit will be connected to a local distribution feeder operated by the same utility which owns the hydro plant.
We are looking at retrofitting a new minimum flow unit of 400kW into an existing hydro plant - in this situation would you use an induction or asynchronus generator and why?
I'm not familiar with the Asbury reference, searched several IOU spec books and did not find it either. As for bonding H2 directly to X2 this was (and is) a common practice by utilities who used bolted connectors. Run your #6 or #4 CU from the primary neutral through the H2 bushing connector...
Your model still looks funny. 20 MVA at 14% on an infinite source at 7.2kV is only 11.45kA. Four of them in parallel is only 45.8kA.
I'm guessing you don't have two fully-independent sources.
How are you getting > 100kA?
MikeVA - from what I've seen switch platforms are required for system operating voltages greater than the insulating level provided by the rubber gloves used by the operator when operating the switch. In other words, if the operator has gloves adequate for the system voltage level switch ground...
Your short circuit values don't make sense to me given the system description. I'm assuming you have 56kA at 480 volts and that the fan is connected to the 7200 volt bus? Closing the 7200 volt bus tie won't cause the 480 volt fault current level to double.
What am I missing? Can you post a...
17 amp coil current for 3-5 cycles hardly overloads #14 wire and I would expect you have fuses (or provisions which may be slugged) on the trip, close and motor circuits which more closely protect the conductors in question. The #10 from the DC panel to the termination comparment is sized as...
I've seen some utilities with "box" type steel structures run cable tray from the control building right into the yard on the steel structure to all equipment bays - then transition to conduits carrying control conductors to the equipment. It worked fine if your box steel structure leads to the...
Southern States can mount their LLS-II 2000 amp interrupter on their disconnects down to this voltage level. It might look funny since the LLS-II is pretty big but it would work. Other switch mfgs can do this also. PASCOR, Pascor Atlantic, etc. Cleaveland Price, USCO and others make...
Depending on where the project is located it could be local code requirements; the NEC and/or reference to NESC part 3 and Section 9 would apply in the US. Although you stated the use of 1/3 CN 34.5kV rated cable you did not state the system voltage in use. 34.5/19.9kV 4 wire grd wye, or...
This is a 4 wire circuit. You need to maintain continuity of the neutral conductor throughout the circuit. The "shield" as you called it is really a neutral and needs to be continuous and sized accordingly. Whether it's grounded at the riser poles or not is secondary to maintaining continuity...