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GE’s Multilin 869 Offers World Class Motor Protection

September 27, 2017

GE Multilin 869 – An innovation in motor protection solutions

The workhorse of any industrial plant is its motor. Without the motor, the plant fails to be productive. As such an integral factory component, the onus is on the company to ensure their facilities have world-class motor protection so production continues unhindered.

GE’s Multilin 869 is an innovative protective relay designed with maximum productivity and motor protection in mind. It features advanced functionality and versatility by being

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Elgin Power Solutions and Neutral Ground Reactors

September 20, 2017

The Need for Elgin Power Solutions
The modern grid is becoming more robust. Industrial companies and their facility engineers are working to maintain better voltage stability at their sites. One area of concern surrounds issues that are caused by higher ground fault currents. Many of these issues are dangerous.

Switchgear can be at risk. When it’s design is underrated, it may not be able to survive higher fault currents. The switchgear can fail, and it will need

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How to Become More Environmentally Friendly Using Eaton’s Variable Voltage Transformer

August 29, 2017

One of the greatest challenges facing engineers and scientists is to find new sources of energy without causing irreparable damage to the environment. The research is expensive and time-intensive, but every breakthrough helps us all. Eaton hopes to assist oil exploration and production companies with their discoveries using Thermal Assisted Gravity Drainage (TAGD) with their variable voltage transformers for a cost-effective, environmentally-safe approach to oil shale and bitumen recovery.

According to Eaton’s newsletter: “TAGD is an

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Unique Substation Packaging & Protection Using VFI Transformers from Eaton

May 17, 2017

Let’s start with an easy question, shall we? Have you made the “switch” from traditional switch and fuses to the VFI Transformer solution? Substation protection options improve tremendously when we look at the advances in VFI transformers. Let’s look at ways your facility could benefit from upgrading!

Looking at substation protection options brings us to a few reliable solutions. As we know, primary fuses react slowly to secondary arcing and ground faults. The trip times are

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Power Survey Product Feature: Low Voltage Power Factor Correction Solutions

April 25, 2017

Power Survey remains an industry leader for Commercial & Industrial energy users looking for power disturbance resolution solutions. If you need equipment for power factor correction capacitors, harmonic filtering, and power monitoring and analysis, Power Survey is a great option. This month’s spotlight will focus on Power Survey products designed for low voltage power factor correction solutions. If you need to boost your facility’s energy efficiency and productivity, then read on for a variety of

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Tips to Reduce Peak Demand

March 11, 2017

If you are a company trying to reduce energy consumption and save money, there are a few areas you should consider. Advances in energy-saving technology have made it easier to track consumption and pinpoint spots for improvements. Here a few decisions you can make to reduce the peak demand in your company:

Energy-Efficient Equipment Saves Energy AND Money

The benefits of switching to energy efficient devices reap almost immediate benefits. Also, downsizing from over-sized equipment allows for

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Spotlight on Success: An Eaton Cooper Solution

January 5, 2017

For our December Power Blog, we focus on a project which highlights how an inquiry can evolve over time. We had the opportunity to work with our customer to develop a customized Medium Voltage Substation solution for a client in Tennessee. We like to show the scope of planning that these quotes utilize. In this instance, we will show you the concept sketch at the developmental stage near the end of 2015 and its progress

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Spotlight on Success: Olsun Electrics

September 16, 2016

Olsun Electrics Replaces a 1954 Westinghouse 500kVA Transformer Core & Coil

We are happy to bring you our Spotlight On Success series. We want to highlight stories from around the industry where a customer has a unique problem and a company provides a newsworthy solution. In today’s blog, we are highlighting Olsun Electrics for the great solution they provided an East Tennessee medical center.

Over the last fifty years, this medical center has made calls in regards

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Solve Distribution Problems with the Three-Phase VFI Transformer

August 16, 2016

Eaton manufactures a wide range of high-quality medium voltage electrical equipment, components, and systems that help bring electric power to homes, industries, businesses and institutions throughout the world.
What Does Your Specific Application Need?
Eaton’s Cooper Power Systems Three-Phase VFI Transformer is a flexible solution to many distribution problems. The Three-Phase VFI Transformer with transformer protection not only protects the transformer, it provides proper coordination with upstream protective devices. When a transformer fault or overload condition occurs, the VFI breaker trips and isolates

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