Power Supply System

Where is Kerala? What you are seeing is probably a loose connection. Does the voltage fluctuations occur through out you plant? Just in a small area? If its the whole plant, you can have a loose connection at the transformers or main switch. Its possible that the utility has the problem. You will need someone with electrical experience to track the problem down.

Dear wareagle,

Kerala is a state of Indian Union situated in the south west corner of Indian Union. It is a beautiful land scape with one side sea and other mountains . If you travel 80 miles from sea shore you can reach top of High ranges which is called western ghats of India. This place is known as "Good's own country". If you get a chance you must visit this beautiful place at least once in life. it is great with its backwaters sea shore hill stations rain forests and coconut trees.

V.I.

Thank you for the information on Kerala. I did a google search and found the following: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/776581/kerala_gods_own_country/

It truly looks like a place I would like to visit.

Hi wareagle,

I strongly recommend that you visit Kerala once . If you love nature then it is worth your time and money. For any information and help for your safe travel and stay you can mail me.

for few photos of different locations visit

http://images.google.co.in/images?hl=en&q=Kerala&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title

Guest, from the information I can gather, the electrical systems in this beautiful place are seriously overloaded due to the lack of adequate transmission line facilities, and the seafood industrial facilities hungry for most of the available power 24/7.

The fluctuations you are describing are from load that is at or above what the system can supply reliably. A link that gives some detail. There is some hope since there is a 100 mW diesel genset in Brahmapuram, Kerala, and hopefully others on the way, but the lack of adequate electric power was called "a well-known national scandal" by one source.

Since you state that you have processes that are sensitive to and affected by these fluctuations and outages, I would suggest a battery based 'buffer between the source and yourself such as this used in photovoltaic and wind generation.

In addition to the stabilisers it may be prudent to use power conditioners which can Isolate your sensitive circuits from fluctuations .Most of them rectify and invert back the incoming supply.I have seen the rapid fluctuations when even a stabilizer is helpless.