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Partial Discharge Secrets, Tips, and Tricks
Most of us started our electrical careers with fairly good knowledge about the practical aspects of our jobs. We understood voltage, current, power, resistance, etc. We mastered the more esoteric ...
Acceptance and Maintenance Testing Medium-Voltage Electrical Power Cables
As time progresses and a cable system ages, the system’s bulk dielectric strength degrades. During this aging process, artifacts such as water trees, delamination, voids, and shield corrosion raise the ...
Using VLF And PD Testing to Improve Commissioning Reliability
Methods to check medium voltage cable integrity have evolved drastically in the last 30 to 40 years. The DC hipot test has largely been replaced by the 0.1 Hz very-low-frequency ...
Columnists
James R. White
Shermco Industries
Tech Quiz
NFPA 70E and NETA
Cable Testing
NFPA 70E–2021 is Here — How Did That Happen?
Scott Blizard
President's Desk
American Electrical Testing Company LLC
NETA PresidentMedium-Voltage Cables
Steven Turner
Arizona Public Service Company
Relay ColumnEffect of CT Saturation on Transformer Differential Protection
Paul Chamberlain
Asplundh Engineering Services, LLC
Safety Corner
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Industry Topics
Power Quality, Reliability, and Sophisticated Automated Systems
What do robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), automation, synaptic performance indicators (SPI), and machine learning (ML) have in common? In addition to being buzzwords for the reliability professional to throw around, the reliability world uses these terms to get practitioners to ...
CAP Corner
Onsite PD Measurement During Commissioning: Safe…Right From the Start
Partial discharge (PD) measurement has been used for several decades to assess the condition of high-voltage (HV) and medium-voltage (MV) ...
Specs & Standards
ANSI/NETA Standards Update
ANSI/NETA ATS–2017 Revision Underway ANSI/NETA ATS–2017, Standard for Acceptance Testing Specifications for Electrical Power Equipment & Systems continues an American National Standard revision process that is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2020. The new edition will be ...
Neta news
In Memoriam: John Hauck — “Students FIRST”
John Hauck, 67, recently retired Electrical Technology Instructor at Long Beach City College (LBCC) and dear friend of NETA and ...