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    Diesel Fire Pump

    Thanks for the information.
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    Diesel Fire Pump

    Thanks. I felt like I was being jerked around.
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    Diesel Fire Pump

    I have a 1969 cummins NH-220-IF diesel connected to a worthington sprinkler pump. This is out backup to our electric sprinkler pump. The engin has failed and spare parts are rare while others are non-existant. The cummins dealer tells me that he can find a replacement, however he can not sell...
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    Flow of a Flashing liquid Through a Pipe

    I appreciate all the discussion and information. dcasto, how did you come up with a flow rate of 10,000 lbs/hr with an eqivalent pipe length of 100ft? Cotton
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    Flow of a Flashing liquid Through a Pipe

    I'm trying to predict the flow rate of liquid chlorine out of a 90 Ton tanker car in the event of a piping failure downstream of the tanker given the following information: 1. Pipe Size: 1", sch 80 2. Pipe Length: 90' with 12-90 Deg elbows and 3 Valves (1 angle valve at the tanker and 2 ball...
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    SLC 5/05 Fault

    The 1st ground was suspect. The contractor did not bond the control cabinets together, nor did they bond the panel back panels to the frame. The PLC racks were grounded to the back panel, underneath the screw that secures a rack. The second ground was brought off of a building column ground...
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    SLC 5/05 Fault

    I'm randomly getting a 1F5A (Hardware Interrupt) fault on my SLC 5/05 PLC. AllenBradley stated it was a grounding issue, however the equipment has been in operation for 6 weeks before this occured. I have added another ground to the cabinet for the PLC racks and DC power supplies, with no...
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    Vacuum Contactors as Isolators

    I agree with everyone's thoughts. However, the lockout tagout procedure should require installation of grounding clusters on anything above 5 kV if hands on work is required. Even with a grounding cluster, I would not be comfortable working on a 15KV system and not being able to visually...
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    Capacitor Banks and Harmonic Issues

    I have an induction furnace which uses capaciators for power factor correction. I also have several large DC drives (1,000 HP and 1,250 HP) which produce enough harmonics to drive the power factor on the line side of the pf correction capacitors from +0.96 to +0.55, which causes the line...

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