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Tim McCulloch

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Re: New Load Bank
« Reply #20 on: March 15, 2018, 12:35:31 PM »

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Re: New Load Bank
« Reply #21 on: March 15, 2018, 07:20:15 PM »

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Re: New Load Bank
« Reply #22 on: March 15, 2018, 08:38:23 PM »

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Re: New Load Bank
« Reply #23 on: April 25, 2018, 09:34:23 PM »

Used my load bank in battle today and ran a really interesting test where I reversed the neutral and ground lines to test the EGC’s ability to sink 45 amps of fault current. And I was able to find that it opened up after 1 minute of heating, but then slowly returned to continuity once it cooled down in 5 minutes. You can’t get those kinds of results from an impulse test. You need steady state current.

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Re: New Load Bank
« Reply #24 on: April 26, 2018, 04:01:50 AM »

Used my load bank in battle today and ran a really interesting test where I reversed the neutral and ground lines to test the EGC’s ability to sink 45 amps of fault current. And I was able to find that it opened up after 1 minute of heating, but then slowly returned to continuity once it cooled down in 5 minutes. You can’t get those kinds of results from an impulse test. You need steady state current.
4 Queries:  What gauge and material was the EGC?
How and where did it fuse or open?
What gauge was it at its narrowest point after it had cooled and regained conduction? 
Where would it fuse, and at what current, on a subsequent test?
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Re: New Load Bank
« Reply #25 on: April 26, 2018, 09:33:12 PM »

4 Queries:  What gauge and material was the EGC?
How and where did it fuse or open?
What gauge was it at its narrowest point after it had cooled and regained conduction? 
Where would it fuse, and at what current, on a subsequent test?
Toodleoo!
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I can't go into a lot of detail just yet, but this was an 8-gauge copper wire that was wire nutted onto a 12-gauge copper wire, and was then terminated in a standard bus bar in a service panel. I'll fill you all in on more details once I'm allowed, but this was interesting because an Ideal SureTest Analyzer showed the EGC impedance as perfect at around 0.5 ohms, but my Load-Bank test revealed a completely different failure mode I didn't predict. And there were several others witnessing it, so it's fully documented.
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Re: New Load Bank
« Reply #26 on: April 27, 2018, 01:56:37 AM »

I can't go into a lot of detail due to a pending litigation, but this was an 8-gauge copper wire that was wire nutted onto a 12-gauge copper wire that was buried underground, and was then terminated in a standard bus bar in a service panel.
I'll fill you all in on more details once I'm allowed, but this was interesting because an Ideal SureTest Analyzer showed the EGC impedance as perfect, but my Load-Bank test revealed a completely different failure mode I didn't predict. And there were several other EE's witnessing it, so it's fully documented.

Speculating here... it sounds like a case of an unforeseen problem in a design, and you were called to figure out what happened (kind of a failure analysis thing). Since there is "pending litigation" then maybe one party is trying to prove that the other party was negligent -- that "they should have known" this could happen. But maybe it couldn't have been predicted because the exact scenario involved failure modes that didn't fit the existing models.

That's just a guess. Maybe I'm out-of-turn here.
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Re: New Load Bank
« Reply #27 on: April 27, 2018, 04:59:56 AM »

Speculating here... it sounds like a case of an unforeseen problem in a design, and you were called to figure out what happened (kind of a failure analysis thing). Since there is "pending litigation" then maybe one party is trying to prove that the other party was negligent -- that "they should have known" this could happen. But maybe it couldn't have been predicted because the exact scenario involved failure modes that didn't fit the existing models.

That's just a guess. Maybe I'm out-of-turn here.
I can’t say any more right now. Maybe in 6 months. But I’ll draw up a hypothetical test situation next week. What I did was really simple but very easy to explain once you see it.

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Re: New Load Bank
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