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Cost implications of unbalanced loads in a 3 phase installation.

Calahonda52 · 2017-04-01 07:30:01

In my travels have met some small SME's who are having consultants suggest testing for imbalanced loads across phases as a way of saving money. This is being bundled in with* Breaches of MIC * Power factor issues * Voltage optimisation * Phase imbalance I understand the value proposition in addressing the first two…

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01-04-2017 8:30am

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Calahonda52

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In my travels have met some small SME's who are having consultants suggest testing for imbalanced loads across phases as a way of saving money.
This is being bundled in with
Breaches of MIC

Power factor issues

Voltage optimisation

Phase imbalance

I understand the value proposition in addressing the first two SIZE="1"]as they are on the bill ![/SIZE, less so for Voltage optimisation and know nothing about no 4, other than the risk of overloading a particular phase.
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#2 06-04-2017 11:46pm
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I would agree.

I would say 1 is the main contributor to a bill.

2 can be justifiable if they have no PFC in place.

The rest is spoof.

In these cases there has to be justifiable payback.

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