I am looking to buy some software at work. I would like to do
- short circuit studies
- coordination studies
and MAYBE in the future (but maybe not)
- voltage drop
- load flow (hopefully allowing for pf correction caps to be applied)
- harmonic load flow (hopefully allowing for pf / filtering L & C to be applied)
- ground grid design (enter soil layers, conductor & rod layouts, etc., calculate Rg, step & touch potentials, etc.)
and finally,
- some function you think is a good one that I didn't include above
Money is an object, to some extent. If anyone can recommend some software(s) they like for the above functions, please include a guess at a ballpark cost with it, if you can. I know some packages offer basics for one price, and for increasing price you get more functionality. Something like that would be fine, too. I do not work at/for a utility, it is consulting, largely in the commercial and institutional building sector.
I used to use a lot of EDSA. Very expensive and it seemed a bit of a clunker. I like to copy and paste text (i.e. coordination study breaker settings, short circuit study fault levels, etc.) and graphics (i.e. time-current curves, harmonic waveforms, etc.) from these programs into, say, Word, so that I can make a decent looking report, all in one file. It would be nice if the software I find allows for this.
If there is software freely available for any of the above, of course I would like to hear about that, too.
Thanks to any and all for their help,
j