Hello all,
I follow the guidance found in this thread whenever doing anything with panels:
http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=140398
So I only talk to people in KVA on my day to day because of it.
My question is, when you have a three phase panel with a mix of single phase and three phase loads and you end up with and unbalanced load, and you add up all three phase total KVAs to get total 3phase KVA connected, how come there is never any mention of utilization of symmetrical components?
In other words, I have an unbalanced three phase system why is there no mention to utilize symmetrical components, is that part of the magic of using KVA instead of currents?
Other than fault calculations when are symmetrical components used?
I follow the guidance found in this thread whenever doing anything with panels:
http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=140398
So I only talk to people in KVA on my day to day because of it.
My question is, when you have a three phase panel with a mix of single phase and three phase loads and you end up with and unbalanced load, and you add up all three phase total KVAs to get total 3phase KVA connected, how come there is never any mention of utilization of symmetrical components?
In other words, I have an unbalanced three phase system why is there no mention to utilize symmetrical components, is that part of the magic of using KVA instead of currents?
Other than fault calculations when are symmetrical components used?