I'm a new user to EasyPower and in my quest to learn how to use it, I'm coming across things that may be trivial or may not. Attached is a picture of a one-line I?m looking at and if you notice the cable color between BUS-24A and BUS-B3 is turquoise in color rather than black like everywhere else. There are other instances where a whole device will be that color too. I've figured out that I can manually change the colors of things, however, that's not what's been done here. I've tried to change the color to black and it won't do it. I?m not sure why the line is different or what that means. Anyone know?
EasyPower - One-line Arc Flash Interpretations
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kingpb
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- SE USA as far as you can go
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I would think it is giving you some level of warning that there is an issue with the cable or cable selection. Maybe too high VD, overloaded, etc. Check your warnings screen.
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I am not familiar with the use of Easy Power. But my guess is that if you want to change the colors to black, you will need to make some different design choices and rerun the model, with the intent in mind to reduce the arc flash energy well below its present value of 51.1.
Motes
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There is a setting in EasyPower that automatically colors equipment based on its kV rating. This may be what is going on here. Go to Options -> Color and disable the kV based equipment coloring.
Motes sort of lead me in the best direction. It turned out that I did have the kV based equipment coloring disabled, however, in the area above that check box it had a bunch of other color options and it showed that turquoise was the defaulted color to indicate a changed scenario. Thank you! 
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