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Circuit Tripping

09/05/2010 1:56 PM

In my company, Whenever we change over from one dg set to another or whenever the mains supply gets changed over to Stand by suply, there occurs a tripping in the RCCB in main essential panel of our switch room.Is this related to any problems in DG side or is it related to load side problem. Pls help Thanks in advance

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Re: Circuit Tripping

09/05/2010 8:37 PM

It sounds like phase angle crossing where the transfer is taking place so fast that the sources are out of phase, you can either slow down the transfer and let the load decay or use an in-phase monitor to prevent out of phase transferring. If you go with an in-phase monitor be sure it has a dead bus feature or it won't operate on a power failure. Its not a big problem.

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Re: Circuit Tripping

09/05/2010 10:42 PM

dg set nuteral need to conect earth

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Re: Circuit Tripping

09/06/2010 1:21 AM

check governors...and go with no.2...slow down your load transferring..

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Re: Circuit Tripping

09/06/2010 1:24 AM

Check the DG set panel program. Cheek the earthling. Check the load distribution .

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Re: Circuit Tripping

09/06/2010 1:49 AM

check the earthing of the your DG system and recheck the earth fault relay settings

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#6

Re: Circuit Tripping

09/06/2010 3:21 AM

It may be out of phase as said by norton850, as RCCB tripping means there is large out of phase you have to slow down the transfer rate considerably to avoid such a situation, also check the Dg earthing if the earthing is having a leak some where. if you are having an auto changeover system, do the changeover manually and check the voltage in each phase and then allow the changeover, by doing this way we can examine the exact areas as where is the real problem of the system.

your synchronising panel also to be checked for exact settings.

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#7

Re: Circuit Tripping

09/06/2010 12:58 PM

first, Make sure that all the DG alternators have their neutrals to earth, separately (different eart pits...)

2nd, Check that in your wiring system, none of the neutral wires is leaking to earth (damaged insulation and contacting metal bodies that will be earthed...).

3rd, If you have a lot of surge suppressors connected in your circuitry on electronic dc supplies, some have capacitors connected to the earth and either the neutral or phases. If discharged, when energising, they draw a substantial current to ground and may trip the RCCB. All depends on the ratings and the current surge.

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Re: Circuit Tripping

09/30/2010 11:51 AM

I did check the earthing of neutral of our main Dg ie 125 KVA one.As such there are no loose connections.But when i measured the earth resistance value, it came to a very high one ie 12.5. Can this be a major cause for the tripping of RCCB? Thanks in advance

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#8

Re: Circuit Tripping

09/07/2010 2:08 AM

Change your company and join where there is no tripping problems.

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Re: Circuit Tripping

09/07/2010 4:45 AM

This is a Good Technical forum, why are you posting such nuisance comments and that to as a Guest.

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#10

Re: Circuit Tripping

09/11/2010 10:00 PM

If this is "On-load" changeover, then there could be out-of-balance currents due to motor inrush currents.

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