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Summary
This 59-minute video covers the basic principles of operation of pad-mounted transformers and switchgear, the types of equipment that are in common use, and how they are connected. It also presents the basic principles of pad-mounted transformer and switchgear inspection and troubleshooting, and shows an example of how to detect a problem with one leg of a three-phase transformer.
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Training Sessions
- Verifying the Power Outage – 6 minutes Uses diagrams to locate the transformer, or transformers, that feeds houses reporting a power outage. Determines if residential customers reporting power outages are actually not getting power. Determines if a problem in the primary circuit is the cause of a power outage.
- Identifying a URD System Fault – 7 minutes Uses diagrams to find a particular transformer in a URD system. Takes a voltage reading of a transformer's secondary output. Explains, with a schematic diagram, how a blown fuse could cause a transformer to have no secondary output even though it is receiving primary power. Explains, with a diagram, how to de-energize a transformer without interrupting power to customers fed by other transformers in the circuit.
- Isolating a URD Transformer – 9 minutes Covers how to: use a primary schematic and a construction print (or similar system drawing) to find a tie point, make a tie, isolate a suspected faulty transformer, and test a transformer and its primary cables to make sure that they are de-energized.
- Testing a URD Transformer – 7 minutes Explains how to: safely remove a transformer fuse for testing, install a new fuse in a URD transformer, re-energize a URD transformer, and disconnect secondary cables.
- Disconnecting a URD Transformer – 10 minutes Covers how to: install grounds on primary cables, remove primary cables from a transformer, disconnect the neutrals and the case ground from a URD transformer, obtain information necessary to order a replacement URD transformer, and recognize various types of URD transformers.
- Replacing a URD Transformer – 8 minutes Explains how to: install a replacement URD transformer, test the replacement transformer for proper operation, restore transformers and cables on either side of the replacement transformer to their original conditions, and disconnect the tie point.
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