NETA: Setting The Standard
Article Written By Jill Howell, NETA In the early 1970s, there were few standards for electrical testing. NFPA had authorized a committee in 1968 to create NFPA 70B, Recommended Practice for Electrical...
View ArticleAPPARATUS TESTING IN POOR WEATHER CONDITIONS
Safety In general, any outdoor activity in bad weather constitutes a risk and should not be performed without a thorough risk assessment and appropriate authorization. A severe risk is posed by...
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SWITCHGEAR LIFE EXTENSION: REPLACEMENT OF ELECTROMECHANICAL OVERCURRENT RELAYING
BY TODD MARTIN, Basler Electric Company Updating Switchgear Relays Electromechanical overcurrent relays such as the IAC and CO are the historical backbone of power system protection. These relays...
View ArticleNETA’S 2010 OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – HONORING NETA’S MOST VALUABLE ASSET
BY KRISTEN WICKS NETA Each year NETA’s President is given the difficult task of selecting one of NETA’s many volunteers as the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award. This person demonstrates...
View ArticleSPECIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS ACTIVITY
ANSI/NETA STANDARDS UPDATES ANSI/NETA MTS-2011 Revision Review and revision of the ANSI/NETA Standard for Maintenance Testing Specifications for Electrical Power Equipment and Systems was completed on...
View ArticleTECHNICAL BRIEF: REPLACING OLDER MEDIUM-VOLTAGE CIRCUIT BREAKERS WITH VACUUM...
By Baldwin Bridger Many older installations of metal-clad switchgear are candidates for modernizing or upgrading. The interrupting duty may have grown past the interrupting capacity of the existing...
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THE CURRENT METHOD OF TESTING CIRCUIT BREAKERS
BY MICHAEL SKELTON Kelvatek Background One of the most critical devices on any electricity network is the circuit breaker which can be described as the silent sentinel, standing guard over the network...
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Partial Discharge Measurement Pays Big Dividends
Don A. Genutis, No-Outage Electrical Testing, Inc. & Neil Davies, EA Technology Introduction Just like people, electrical assets age and deteriorate; and as with human medicine, there have been...
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From the Brink of Disaster
Lessons for Electrical Safety and Reliability H. Landis “Lanny” Floyd, DuPont First, it may be useful to share a bit of background on DuPont, the oldest Fortune 500 company. French immigrant...
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EXISTING SUBSTATION INFORMATION
DRIVES EQUIPMENT LIFE EXTENSION, MODERNIZATION, AND RETROFITTING DAVID DOLEZILEK AND GERALDO ROCHA, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. I. INTRODUCTION Much of the power system equipment in use...
View ArticleHow Technology is Making Electrical Maintenance More Efficient
Managing electrical operations within an industrial environment can be complex and tiresome, to say the least. Ensuring that every little piece of equipment stays operational is a task that’s not meant...
View ArticleLaw of Universal Magnetism, F = ke × H
Abstract A new universal equation using planet magnetic pole strength is presented and given reasoning for its assemblage. Coulomb’s Constant, normally used in calculating electrostatic force is...
View ArticleElectrical Equipment Maintenance During Rainy Season
While the monsoon comes as a sigh of relief after the sweltering heat of the summers, it brings with it serious electrical hazards as well. What with the furious thunderstorms, incessant rain, and...
View ArticleThe Importance of SF6 Circuit Breaker Testing and Maintenance
Not long ago, we discussed the variety of circuit breakers that are commonly used for industrial purposes. The SF6 electrical circuit breaker was one of the many circuit breakers we discussed. Today,...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Substation Maintenance
If your organization runs with the support of a sub-station, you will obviously require periodic maintenance. Timely maintenance ensures that your sub-station operates efficiently, securely, and a in a...
View ArticleHow Does Solar Power Benefit Businesses?
It doesn’t matter what the size of your organization is; there are some costs that you just wish would go away. The costs we’re talking about are the costs that grow with your business. Your energy...
View ArticleHiPot Testing and Its Importance
HiPot Testing refers to a high potential or high voltage testing. A more technical term for this would be ‘Dielectric Withstand Test.’ The purpose of HiPot Testing is to determine proper insulation. In...
View ArticleCosmic Wireless Power Transfer System and the Equation for Everything
Author(s) Greg Poole Affiliation Industrial Tests, Inc., Rocklin, CA, USA. ABSTRACT By representing the Earth as a rotating spherical antenna several historic and scientific breakthroughs are achieved....
View ArticleGauss’s Law for Magnetism & Law of Universal Magnetism: Calculate the Charge...
Author(s) Greg Poole Affiliation Industrial Tests, Inc., Rocklin, CA, USA. ABSTRACT This paper describes a mathematical proof that Gauss’s Law for Magnetism can be derived from the Law of Universal...
View ArticleCosmic Wireless Power Transfer and the Equation for Everything
In this Presentation: I model the solar system as a long wave radio system operating at tremendously low frequency Our Sun acts as a transmitter, transmitting tremendously low frequency waves The...
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