jakeparsons03
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- Location
- USA
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- Engineer
I am having trouble making the final leap in my conceptual understanding of this problem.
I have a whole bunch of single phase 480V loads that I am feeding from a 3 Phase delta distribution panel. All of these single phase loads are different which causes the feed panel load to be wildly unbalanced. I moved things around and got the unbalance as low as I can go but now I am stuck. I need to size my panel and MCB to the size of the highest load (*1.25 of course) but I am having a hard time figuring out the calculations needed to get that number. So here is what I have
Phase A: 126.5kVA
Phase B: 127.75kVA
Phase C: 112.25kVA
Conceptually what I understand is that when phase b is peaking then that current is being returned on phase A and phase C. In a balanced system that wouldn't matter as Phase A and Phase C are at a combined point in their waveform which can even out the current from phase B. In this unbalanced system while phase B is peaking your other 2 waveforms are at a point where they are needing to return their current through phase b. So that being said your max peak current is Phase B peak + returned current from phases A and C. That total current is what I need to set my panel size and breaker value to.
My question for you is how do I go about calculating that absolute peak current for this system.
I have a whole bunch of single phase 480V loads that I am feeding from a 3 Phase delta distribution panel. All of these single phase loads are different which causes the feed panel load to be wildly unbalanced. I moved things around and got the unbalance as low as I can go but now I am stuck. I need to size my panel and MCB to the size of the highest load (*1.25 of course) but I am having a hard time figuring out the calculations needed to get that number. So here is what I have
Phase A: 126.5kVA
Phase B: 127.75kVA
Phase C: 112.25kVA
Conceptually what I understand is that when phase b is peaking then that current is being returned on phase A and phase C. In a balanced system that wouldn't matter as Phase A and Phase C are at a combined point in their waveform which can even out the current from phase B. In this unbalanced system while phase B is peaking your other 2 waveforms are at a point where they are needing to return their current through phase b. So that being said your max peak current is Phase B peak + returned current from phases A and C. That total current is what I need to set my panel size and breaker value to.
My question for you is how do I go about calculating that absolute peak current for this system.