aelectricalman
Senior Member
- Location
- KY
I have a customer that has come to me and said they are having major transformer overload due to harmonic distortion. We are seeing about 11% Vthd. They have some equipment where they have drilled through the concrete floor and drove a separate ground for the new peice of equipment. They have grounding issue and are tripping and burning up drives like NASCAR tires. This is a large primary user.
There are many ways to skin this cat. I understand a power quality study should be the first approach in providing a direction. Once this is done, what type of grounding studies are out there that we could have performed to help determine if there are ground loops, high Vthd, high Ithd. I am looking at some line reactors as well but i don't want to get the cart in front of the horse.
Thanks for your help, all.
There are many ways to skin this cat. I understand a power quality study should be the first approach in providing a direction. Once this is done, what type of grounding studies are out there that we could have performed to help determine if there are ground loops, high Vthd, high Ithd. I am looking at some line reactors as well but i don't want to get the cart in front of the horse.
Thanks for your help, all.