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    Blinking Lights - Pole Top Cap Bank set 1 span from Line Regulators

    And the last file. REAL MEN LOVE JESUS!http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=f87bbe3b-932e-4153-a490-0a0786fe0e2a&file=2phaseVolts1.ppt
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    Blinking Lights - Pole Top Cap Bank set 1 span from Line Regulators

    Here's another file. I don't know how those add links got into my previous post! REAL MEN LOVE JESUS!http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=2c04bd94-3e47-4ea1-b115-e4e3145f1091&file=3phaseVolts1.ppt
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    Blinking Lights - Pole Top Cap Bank set 1 span from Line Regulators

    bacon4life - sorry I overlooked your question - No, no trips on station feeder or on OCRs. wareagle and davidbeach - blinking is probably not the best word to describe. Flicker is more accurate. Some early records show momentary dips down to 90 VAC at customers meter. Dumbo2929 - sounds...
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    Blinking Lights - Pole Top Cap Bank set 1 span from Line Regulators

    Sorry to take so long getting back. You know how it is, busy. I don't have the software or IR cable to be able to read data. Budget is tight, so, I was just hoping someone had also experienced this type of problem to help us decide whether to change the cap bank controls to a different...
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    Blinking Lights - Pole Top Cap Bank set 1 span from Line Regulators

    On 13.8 kv circuit we've had customer complaints of blinking lights. After visually inspecting the circuit the only unusual condition was a 3 phase pole top capacitor bank (with Beckwith M-2501B Autodaptive control) installed one pole span downstream of 3 single phase line regulators. I'm...
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    Electrical Transmission and Distribution Reference Book

    I've had "Introductory Circuit Analysis" and ABBs "Protective Relaying Theory and Applications" book (ISBN: 0-8247-9152-5) for a few years. I was recently given a "J & P Transformer Book” and just received my "Electrical Transmission and Distribution Reference...
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    line voltage tolerances

    Answer to question 1... http://utilities.dteenergy.com/infoZone/programsInfo/voltageLevels.html
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    Dy1 shift - proved +30 ABC & -30 ACB but rotation is confusing

    A little follow up - I took the Arbiter power meter back to the A-C-B station. If you program it's polarity to (+) you read the same angles the Dranetz reads at the A-C-B station. If you program it's polarity to (-) you read the same angles the Dranetz reads at the A-B-C station. After...
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    Dy1 shift - proved +30 ABC & -30 ACB but rotation is confusing

    Thank you gentlemen for responding. I'm beginning to under stand. It's mainly a nomenclature and terminology issue. jghrist, when you say Georgia and Duke Power use reversed phase rotation, do you mean they connect their transformers A-H1 C-H2 B-H3 (A-C-B) but their generators run A-B-C (A...
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    Dy1 shift - proved +30 ABC & -30 ACB but rotation is confusing

    rbulsara - the grid I'm speaking of is the 115kv grid. The same grid that's interconnected throughout the USA (at higher kv). My understanding is that all generation in the USA (that's not islanded) is A-B-C CCW. It only changes sequence through transformers. At the A-C-B station: H1 & X1...
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    Dy1 shift - proved +30 ABC & -30 ACB but rotation is confusing

    jbartos, all of our stations have one-line drawings showing the bus configuration, breakers, switches and transformers. The one-line indicates which phase hits each transformer HV bushing. If both stations had the same sequence then wouldn't both A phases be the same? Today I went to the...
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    Dy1 shift - proved +30 ABC & -30 ACB but rotation is confusing

    busbar, no, not trying to parallel them. At the station with A-C-B sequence I needed to take phase angle readings before and after installing new metering PTs on the 13.8kv bus. They are now installed and the before and after readings were the same. After analyzing the A-C-B readings I was...
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    Dy1 shift - proved +30 ABC & -30 ACB but rotation is confusing

    I've been searching the forum and was almost convinced that my connections/phases and readings are correct and I just need to view the A-C-B phase rotation in the CW direction (while plotting the degrees in the CCW direction on both circles). This is one of the threads (by redtrumpet). See his...
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    Dy1 shift - proved +30 ABC & -30 ACB but rotation is confusing

    Do you mean - when I thought I was connected to C phase I was really connected to B? Or do you mean the readings are correct and it's a normal effect?
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    Dy1 shift - proved +30 ABC & -30 ACB but rotation is confusing

    At two different stations, I took phase angles from A phase PT on 115kv bus to A B & C metering PTs on 13.8kv bus. I used a Dranetz Phasemeter - model 314. Both transformers are Dy1 and grid is A-B-C CCW. The station with A-B-C sequence read: HV A leads LV A by 32 deg HV A leads LV B by 152...

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