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Home > Forums > Electrical / Electronic Engineers > Activities > Electrical/Electronic engineering other topics Forum

Short Circuit Analysis & Calculation

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neeron07 (Civil/Environmental)

8 Jul 12 10:18

What is the basic theory explaining the short circuit analysis?

dpc (Electrical)

8 Jul 12 12:41

Basically it's Ohm's law. You have circuit running from a source of power to the fault point.

Zogzog (Electrical)

9 Jul 12 9:15

You are calulating the maximum available current that could occur during fault conditions, it is importnat that your OCPD's are able to interupt this current.

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