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    Job Outlook For Electrical Engineers

    I meant no offence, and yeah im sure he's experience as an electrician will come in handy. I am just saying from my experience of people completing a bachelors at my university 95% of them went into the HV power sector.
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    Job Outlook For Electrical Engineers

    The wiring system is usually the lower end voltage market, while electrical engineers, generally, deal with most EHV, HV and MV systems. In terms of power transformers, substations, transmission/distribution systems etc. When living in the UK they did actually define electricians as...
  3. Samuel2500

    Easy Qn- Circulating Currents in Utility Systems ?!

    Hey all, Just quickly - I understand you can get circulating currents between distribution substations and i was wondering how these occur or caused by?
  4. Samuel2500

    cable calc

    I have previously worked for a cable systems company (EHV and HV) and the calculations, as the other gentlemen have stated, are not straight forward, there are a lot of factors you need to consider. We had in-house programs to do these for us. However, i constructed my own MathCAD program to do...
  5. Samuel2500

    Cap Bank for Volt Regulation

    I have a switched 2-step Cap Bank on the LV side of the distribution network. Now i am looking to co-ordinate the transformer tap changing and the switching of the capacitor bank for the purpose of voltage regulation. I understand that VR is not the primary purpose of a CapB, however as...

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