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#215025 02/22/15 07:59 PM
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What's behind the door???

Found doing a walk-thru on a complaint
Have to check this out further next week.
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OK, it's back to the sideways pics!!!


(Fixed - Admin)

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I haven't got to OMG yet. How was the 250 stuff?


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John,

Is this supplied by a 1 Phase 3 Wire System, or a 3 Phase 3 Wire Corner-Grounded System?

BTW, Notice that most of the Grounded Conductors for the Branch Circuits are Fused.
The only one that is not Fused is at the bottom of the Bus Kit.

Nevertheless, quite a find!!! thumbs clap

--Scott (EE)


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I have to look at this in more detail.
It looked like the neutrals are all fused, except the tap off of the top buss.

It's in an old school bldg. More to come.


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I seriously doubt that the 'neutral bus' is fused -- it's a corner grounded delta -- hence the fusing to the 'neutral' it's a grounded 'hot.'

I absolutely HATE to sling around the term 'neutral' in such schemes. While a corner grounded delta certainly has been pulled over to ground potential, it absolutely has circulating current pumping in and out of it -- at a tempo far beyond the residual imbalances typical of a center tapped residential service.

[ Unlike a center tapped Service drop, one dares not ever break the bonding to the ground while power is applied. What's bad for a center tapped ground is horrific for a lifted corner on a delta. ]

[ EUSERC hates this old time scheme so much that you'd need a Presidential Executive Order to have a new one hooked up. Emergency responders will always mistake the grounded corner -- from the layout of the panel -- to be that of a single phase, center-tapped scheme. Not good. ]

Off hand, it smells like a distribution panel for site lighting.

Which is exactly the kind of system that would run on and on for years without an upgrade/ overhaul.

I'd expect that the service was some ancient 240 delta.

That far back 480 was just not done for such facilities.


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Since EUSERC hates corner grounded delta Services, I've never run across a single one.

I'd be interested to hear if a voltage tick reads 'hot' around such grounded legs of the power flow.

Let us know.


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I used to see corner delta on sewer lift pumps. As soon as I figured out what it was, I never saw anything unusual about it. It seems to have a certain elegance to it. A grounded conductor is a grounded conductor. It is simply an arbitrary decision at which point we ground the transformer secondary. I would be a lot more concerned with the center of a wye when you have reactive loads than a corner delta. It will only draw nominal circuit current. The main code/listing issue is that there is 240v to ground so the 2 pole breakers need to be "delta" rated.


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Does it look to anyone else that many of the fuses have been replaced over the years? The labels on the fuses look too clean to be original. Why have they been replaced?

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They look like they are FRNs so they may have been instant blow before and someone decided a delay fuse was a better option.


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