The following tables provide quick order of magnitude fault levels for a a range of typical low voltage situations.
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Many questions sent in to the site are in connection with motor starting and in particular star-delta. For all but the simplest application, there is...
Collection of links to various places with useful motor information. I’ll try and return to the page every now and again to update it with any motor notes...
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Various arguments exist around SF6 Gas Insulated (GIS) and Air Insulated (AIS) medium voltage switchgear. Recently we had to change a GIS design to AI...
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