New ETAP automatically making too many buses!

[Bigjabe]

Hello,

I had ETAP 16 with another company, and I just got ETAP 19.0.1 on my personal (contractor) computer. It seems to automatically make buses anytime I connect any two things together! I swear this never used to happen... can you turn that feature off so that buses only get made when you actually purposely make one (ie: actually want one??).

Thanks!

 

[WA_Sparky]

Auto Bus input

Auto Bus input

I haven't personally used ETAP before. If it's similar to SKM and Easy power you're able to double click on the bus and toggle between normal and node busses. Node busses won't show up on your reports. I've never been able to remove this feature on any software I've came across.

Good luck

 

[steve66]

Completely agree with the above comment.

Also, the bus count that your software license allows has more to do with what the software internal calculations (and the nodes needed for those calcs) than it has to do with the results you want to see.