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Measuring Ground Current

03/18/2011 11:02 PM

Hai,

I need your valuable answers.I am having 132KW AC drive in our plant operate the motors in the rotating kiln(75 meter cable laid in totally metal body wound with asbestos strip for insulation),it will set for tripping for ground fault current.is there is any instrument/measuring methods are there for measure this ground current which makes us to take precaution/finding the perfect grouding of cable.

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Re: Measuring Ground Current

03/19/2011 11:01 AM

Your question is hard (for me) to understand.

Is that motor / drive actually tripping due to ground fault and you're trying to find out why, or are you trying to determine the correct setting for the ground fault relay to protect the motor / drive?

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Re: Measuring Ground Current

03/31/2011 3:48 AM

Thank you for your response regarding my question,actually the drive is tripping due to ground fault but we need to indicate the actual ground current that makes us to become alert before tripping.

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Re: Measuring Ground Current

03/31/2011 8:59 AM

See #2.

I'd probably like to have a strip chart recorder in the CT circuit to see what the current looks like before tripping.

But, you have a setting on the current ground fault trip device--obviously the ground fault current is exceeding that setting when it trips. I guess you want a warning before the trip--I'm not sure how much warning you can get, but try setting another ground fault relay, driving an alarm, at 1/2 the value of the trip...

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Re: Measuring Ground Current

03/20/2011 2:50 AM

Yes, it is very easy to measure. A current transformer of expected maximum earth fault current and an ampmeter will do the job. The earth fault current is the ratio of the applied voltage over the total earth fault loop impedance. I = V/ R, were R is the resistance of earth fault loop.

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