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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 The DC hipot test has largely been replaced by the 0.1 Hz very-low-frequency ...
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 James R. White

Shermco Industries

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NFPA 70E and NETA

Protective Relaying

Looking at NFPA 70E 2021 — Part 1
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Jeffrey Jowett

Megger Tech Tips

Ground Testing Procedures
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Scott Blizard
President's Desk

American Electrical Testing Company LLC

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Welcome to the Winter Edition
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Ron Widup
Shermco Industries NFPA 70E and NETA

Looking at NFPA 70E 2021 — Part 1
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Steven Turner

Arizona Public Service Company

 Relay Column

Combustion Turbine Generator Trip Analysis
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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 ...
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    IEEE Transformers Committee Report

    The IEEE Transformers Committee has been very active this past year, with back-to-back record attendance for the fall and spring ...
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    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 ...
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