Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
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I am working on a power failure issue at a big warehouse distribution facility in NY. I posted on the site a while ago regarding finding a solution for the power brownouts they have been having that caused the forklift chargers to fail. I recommended using the FLUKE 175 to record power parameters for a period of a week, the data results came back and it shows that they had one incident of a voltage drop on two phases from 277VRMS to 120VRMS, the drop was instantly and then came back to normal, this caused power failures and caused the current to spike. Other than this voltage fluctuation ranged from 275VRMS TO 288RMS max during that week and I think it is normal. I am trying to find the best and more economical solution for this matter, I called the power company before and they said that they didn't report any brownouts or power issues in that area!
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RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
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Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Especially if it an old installation where corrosion has occurred. Any copper to aluminum connectors in the circuits?
rasevskii
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Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
When compared the date/ time of the dips recorded at customer's installation exactly co-related to the faults recorded on the utility main substation. The fault level on utility main substation was high enough and together with high impedance of transformers (as 3x 50MVA 132/11kV transformers were running parallel) a voltage dip observed upon occurance of a momentary and/or permanent fault. Those dips caused the customer's ACB's to trip to under voltage function as well.
As advised by others, please refer matter to utility and check the utility fault data against the dips at customer's installations.
musa UKPN
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Are you really using this Fluke 175? http:
Does it really record over weeks? Battery life seems to be only a few hundred hours and I see no recording possibility in the data sheets. Or do you use some other instrument?
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Thank you
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Large Wye Delta starters can cause this sometimes. There is a phase shift that takes place when they transition from Wye to Delta and depending on where the phase angle of the supply is at the moment of transition and the possibility of an incompete decay of the motor magnetic field, the combination can cause very severe transition spikes that are known to not only damage the motor, but cause seemingly random voltage dips and spikes in the system. The randomness stems from the combination of issues that it takes to cause this.
So to eliminate this possibility, check EVERY marge-ish motor in the warehouse, making sure you especially pay attention to any chiller compressors for the HVAC system (or refrigeration compressors if it's a cold storage warehouse). If you (or your neighbors) have absolutely no large Wye-Delta starters, then look elsewhere. But if you find one, put your recorder on that motor fpor a while.
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RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
I am the one that doesn't understand the measurements. A 'square' dip three seconds long is not normal at all. I still think that the measurements are wrong. I have asked a few times how fast that 175 (now 1750) is sampling. Perhaps every third second?
If that is so, you can have lots and lots of those dips, but sampling and dip coincides only now and then. So, the conclusions may be all wrong. There are many more of them and the duration is much shorter.
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Regular Instant Voltage drop in a large warehouse facility!
I had a customer complaining about an Automatic Transfer Switch.
There were two problems.
1 The watchman/gardener/handyman spent a lot of time sitting in a chair against the wall. From time to time the ATS would "thump". He would report the thump to the owner.
After some conversations with a utility engineer, I found out that during the summer months salt spray would build up on the insulators on the distribution lines near the beach. This time of year, the humidity would increase and the formerly bone dry salt film would absorb moisture and insulators would randomly flash over. Whenever there was a flash over, there would be a voltage dip throughout the system. The ATS was contactor based and the contactor would drop and pull back in with a thump. No damage was done. The best solution was to move the chair.
I asked about your system topology. Determining the system layout and then moving the measuring point helps to determine whether the problem is local or utility based.
Gunnar:
Measurement type True rms (one cycle calculation by overlapping each half cycle - voltage between lines is measured for 3P3W lines and phase voltage is measured for 3P4W lines)
Displayed data Amplitude and duration of dip or interruption
Measurement Same as rms voltage
If it does what it says. It is a Fluke. grin
Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter