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    Hand Held Earth Fault Detector

    Hi Does anyone know the type of hand held earth fault tracing unit made by Merlin Gerin? I used one many years ago, you can trace 240V AC earth faults to their source etc. The unit worked on a torroidal CT you clipped round the cable with the fault Cheers
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    Primary Delta Transformer winding

    I have a 500kva Tx 660/2300v The delta primary winding is open cirucit due to a fault. Could you advise what kind of resistance I would expect between L1, L2, L3 if one of the windings in the delta winding was open circuit? What would the effect be on the remaining two healthy windings and...
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    Offshore Wind Turbines & onshore power supply in Parallel.

    Marmite, Thanks for the info. I have got some info from the web on this subject, but I am still looking for a good book to get my head round this topic. Cheers
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    Offshore Wind Turbines & onshore power supply in Parallel.

    I have just joined a new project and need some guidance. I have 33kv AC 50hz 3 phase sub sea feeder supply cable 25km from shore base sub station feeding a common 33kv switchboard with no bus coupler on an oil rig. Also connecting to this same switchboad is two 5MW wind turbines via one 33KV...
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    Polarization testing of MV drives

    Gents, I have a 3 phase 60hz 11kV syncronous induction motor, 15 years old in the North Sea. Insulation class B Hazardous rated Exd I intend to do a PI test PI= R10/R1, have you any information on what DC voltage I should use for this test. The rule of thumb appears to be 2.5kV and I note...

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