Message from @Timeward

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2019-08-08 17:18:35 UTC  

ah yeah, that is what so me call it; triangle or star

2019-08-08 17:18:37 UTC  

did this turn into an EE course?

2019-08-08 17:19:54 UTC  

yes. Please calculate the ground fault current if a 1.4KV XFMR shorts the seconday windings with a sufficently large conductor as to exceed the per unit XFMR rating.

2019-08-08 17:20:10 UTC  

lol

2019-08-08 17:20:31 UTC  

I fucking punched the desk when I figured out the exact wire that was supposedly cut

2019-08-08 17:20:51 UTC  

It was so satisfying

2019-08-08 17:21:08 UTC  

lol yeah, i've had that at home actually

2019-08-08 17:21:30 UTC  

One yr during a storm, I lost the neutral line running from the pole to the house.

2019-08-08 17:22:04 UTC  

Sadly, it wsn't the ONLY wire running from the house to the pole as my cable modem conductor was also hung that way

2019-08-08 17:22:09 UTC  

The reason that wire being cut caused all the issues was that it allowed the lamp's phase to act as a latch for the relay that kept the lamp turned on, the wire layout caused the faulty latch to bypass the off button, and pressing the on button connected the same phase on both pins of the lamp, turning it off. @ManAnimal

2019-08-08 17:22:18 UTC  

With no neutral, return current had to go SOMEWHERE

2019-08-08 17:22:43 UTC  

melted the HELL out of that tiny coax cable in about 1/2 a second

2019-08-08 17:23:24 UTC  

Do you know what a 'synchroscope' is Timeward? It works on a similar principle

2019-08-08 17:24:23 UTC  

In power distribution, you have a large load or 'grid' and you want to provide more capacity to a live circuit without turning everything off

2019-08-08 17:27:08 UTC  

but if your on-coming 3-phase generator runs at a freq even SLIGHTLY out of phase with the online system, you'll see a LARGE voltage across the switch/breaker you are closing. As there is usually hundreds or even thousands of amps available, closing 180 deg out of phase can turn a 1 ton circuit breaker into a projectile

2019-08-08 17:28:20 UTC  

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2019-08-08 17:28:44 UTC  

@PureEvilPie Little mistake in alignment makes lever in wall go boom

2019-08-08 17:28:45 UTC  

A 'sychro-scope' has an analog meter and a pair of 'sync lamps' connected across the online and oncoming behind an isolation xfrm set. When the voltage is 'in sync' the lamps go off

2019-08-08 17:29:20 UTC  

when the sources go out of phase, the lamps come on get brightest at 180, then dim again

2019-08-08 17:29:31 UTC  

lights are out? close breaker

2019-08-08 17:29:39 UTC  

Maybe thats why the two ohases we measured yesterday were at 380V

2019-08-08 17:29:46 UTC  

yup

2019-08-08 17:29:56 UTC  

When they should've been at zero

2019-08-08 17:30:04 UTC  

Small desync in the circuit breaker

2019-08-08 17:30:08 UTC  

because two phase of the same line witll always vary by 120 deg

2019-08-08 17:30:09 UTC  

Generator

2019-08-08 17:30:10 UTC  

Fhck

2019-08-08 17:31:46 UTC  

most simulators pass at least one phase of three through a phase shift-cirucit so that on phase + the shifted phase gives a new voltage based on the amount of shift

2019-08-08 17:31:59 UTC  

that's how a VFD works

2019-08-08 17:32:31 UTC  

>people live on hope

2019-08-08 17:32:36 UTC  

lol

2019-08-08 17:32:39 UTC  

people live on power

2019-08-08 17:32:56 UTC  

no power? no toliets, food, water... no hope

2019-08-08 17:32:57 UTC  

people live on potential, face resistance and need capacitance

2019-08-08 17:33:00 UTC  

or something like that

2019-08-08 17:33:18 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/598761542200197120/609076683005362208/68383032_2351774231572971_7802173204058865664_n.png

2019-08-08 17:33:20 UTC  

ah, potential (voltage) and inertia (current) = Power

2019-08-08 17:34:02 UTC  
2019-08-08 17:34:14 UTC  

yup time

2019-08-08 17:34:29 UTC  

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