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    Vacuum Breaker Preinsertion Resistor

    Does anyone have knowledge of the existence of a Vacuum Breaker Preinsertion Resistor? The application is 15 kV and EMTP studies have shown a significant reduction (damping) of a highly distorted waveform when a resistance is included in series with the closing ciruit. Although well known in...
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    Starting Pf and kVA/HP of Single Phase Motors

    Is there a source for approximate starting power factors and kVA per horsepower of single phase motors by HP and type (split phase, capacitor run, capacitor start/run, etc.) similar to those published for three phase motors?
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    inserting dxf file into Word doc

    You could also ask the engineer to export the drawing in a "bmp" format which some versions of AutoCAD will do.
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    Sequence Networks

    Birddogger, What are the key words that should be used to find the Network Protection & Automation Guide of which you speak in this thread? I have used all the combinations I can think of and the Areva site just returns "no information available." Thanks, kellymw@bv.com
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    Ground Grid Analysis

    Hello Borti Another supplier of extremely versitile grounding software modules is SES (Safe Engineering Services and Technology). They are located in Quebec, Canada. Their URL is posted below. These modules are a bit more difficult to use that those posted perviously, but SES's software...

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