boomsystems:
Thanks for the tip on looking at the meters. These units were removed from another site, but I will see if anyone took pictures of existing control cabinets.
FilipinoEE:
I am very familiar with Basler equipment. My client is leaning toward using a very simple (cheap) DC rectifier to excite the field - no AVR. However, if it turns out that the excitation requirements are quite small, we may use a Basler DECS-200 unit including AVR.
These units are...
Thanks FilipinoEE.
I am aware of the no load test (I have a faint memory from college machine lab) and thank you for you insight. I was hoping there might be some other ways to estimate the requirements since the client wants to install electrical equipment prior to commissioning the unit...
I have a client that is installing a very old refurbished hydro generator that is missing the excitation nameplate. Does anyone have any rules of thumb or ideas how to calculate the required excitation current for a 200 kW, 2400 Volt generator? (This is not a self excited, so a small static...
