What is the best book, software, or source for gaining a good understanding of 3 phase calculations as applied to 3 and 4 wire wye connected alternators and loads, unbalanced loads, instantaneous power and metering methods? A good dose of laymans terms to help shoe horn me in to a higher conceptual understanding and ability to handle calculations knowlegably (like Yunus Cengel's 'Thermoedynamics'). thanks, chuck
3 phase calculations
Mar 12, 2005
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A good circuits text will provide the basics of 3 phase- balanced systems and also power measurements. Johnson, Johnson and Hilbert -Basic Electric Circuits has this material and a quick reference may be a Schaum's Outline on Electric Circuits. For unbalanced systems find any book on power system analysis which will cover symmetrical components. . Some of the older books (Stevenson, Kimbark, etc) do give a good review of basic 3 phase analysis and also develop the use of sequence components for unbalanced systems and may be a bit more readable than some of the newer texts which are lean to matrix methods.
in article sBvYd.648442$8l.249610@pd7tw1no, Don Kelly at snipped-for-privacy@peeshaw.ca wrote on 3/11/05 10:02 PM:
It wouldn't hurt to understand eigenvalues and eigenvectors for matrices. These concepts are also another form of normal coordinates.
Bill
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