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amit291977

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i had a switchboard of 400V having three 400V, Indction motor of 315kw and other small load 165 kW. Any time tow 315 kw motor will run and other load is applied.

all these motor are DOL start. Can you tell me that if one motor is running and second motor about to start. Can my second motor start normally.
 
amit291977 said:
i had a switchboard of 400V having three 400V, Induction motor of 315kw and other small load 165 kW. Any time tow 315 kw motor will run and other load is applied.

all these motor are DOL start. Can you tell me that if one motor is running and second motor about to start. Can my second motor start normally.
Some of the info hardworker has requested is
1. HP rating of the motors
2. Is the voltage 400 or 480 volts.
3. Transformer Size and %Z
4. How much VD can you stand? What other kind of load is affected?
5. Over current rating for each of the motors and SW board.
6. If the name plate has it, what is the LRA of each motor.
Someone else may add to this list.
 
I think it is 400V as the OP used the term DOL, which I dont think Americans use, but is used in Europe. DOL is direct on line, ie just a contactor. I'd have though that motors of that size wouldn't be DOL.
 
amit291977,

It's obvious that English is not your native language so some of what you posted is unclear to us, but I will attempt to address some of your issues as well as further explain the other's questions.

As I perceive your question, you have a total of 1110kW of connected load on your switchboard, with the 3 x 315kW + 1 x 165kW motors being started DOL. You want to know what will happen if you have some of the loads connected and you attempt to start the remaining one (or more). Your initial scenario implies that you have 315kW connected and want to add in another 315kW motor. But actually, a worse scenario is that you have 795kW connected and attempt to add the final 315kW motor. So there is one problem; you need to be more clear about what your worst-case scenario is.

The point others were making is that nobody can answer that question anyway with the information you have provided. Voltage is irrelevant in this situation, what matters is the available current capacity of your system. With 1100kW that can be connected, that means you will have approximately a 1400kVA potential load on whatever transformer you have feeding power to the switchboard. Without knowing the capacity of that transformer, there is no way to begin to predict what will happen when you add a motor. For example, if your transformer is rated for only 2000kVA, attempting to start that final 315kW motor when you have already loaded that transformer with 994kVA means that your voltage will drop considerably. That means that ALL of the existing motors will lose torque, which may cause them to become overloaded, just at the time you are attempting to add in that final motor. The result may be that everything fails. On the other hand, if you have a transformer rated for 10,000kVA, adding a second or 3rd or 4th motor when others are already running will not likely have any noticeable effect.
 
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