HIGH PEFC??

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Chicki,

I disagree about your boss, even though I don't know him.

Get your ideas straight in your head.

Stick around and ask a few more questions.

I won't give you the answers outright, few of us will however, we will bat you in the right direction as it is better to learn yourself, that way you remember it better!

Think of when you had the slipper in school, you remember why don't you!

 
I have got a grasp of it, i do them everyday. Ive just never seen this before. Ive made a balls up on my part of forgetting that i would still have a high fault current across phase and neutral regardless. Easy stuff, shouldv known better. Sorry guys for time wasting.

 
CHICKI ,

can you tell us why it is that PFC is so important?

not trying to catch you out here, just so we can be sure you are worried for the right reasons, and not some obscure myth that has been taught to you.

 
because of the amount of current coming in with regards to the KA rating of the mcb's. Like you said earlier, an im the same, i dont like the PFC being higher. Scares me abit.

 
its good to have someone to talk too because my boss is a herbert and hard work sometimes, ive learnt everything i know from books and college.

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because its alot of current under fault conditions. PFC is 11.1KA, MCB'S are rated 6KA

 
OK,

Nae bother, keep going, have a think about my questions above and come back to us.

I'm not being a sod, I just won't give lectures on the forum, I try to bat people in the direction they need to go and let them find the answers themselves because most of the time they are more then capable of doing this and just don't realise they actually know the answer!

HTH

 
its good to have someone to talk too because my boss is a Sherbert and hard work sometimes, ive learnt everything i know from books and college.---------- Post Auto-Merged at 23:26 ---------- Previous post was made at 23:24 ----------

because its alot of current under fault conditions. PFC is 11.1KA, MCB'S are rated 6KA
I like sherberts, :) the one with the liquorice dipper.

 
What is the problem if the 1361 goes?

IF you have a fault what do you think will control which goes first?

What is the problem with the 6kA mcb's?

Which do you think will go first in the event of a fault of negligible impedance between ph & e?

 
The mcb has failed. The rating and disconnection time. Nothings wrong with them but ive got a high PFC and they can only take 6KA and the regs say it shouldnt be like that.

The mcb would go.

 
Wow now,

Why has the mcb failed?

What is the problem with the mcb's being rated at 6kA with an 11kA pfc?

What reg says that is wrong, and what is the rider to it?...

If the mcb goes 1st what is the problem?

Keep thinking!

;)

 
there is no problem if the mcb goes first, ideally that would be alot better! im not sure if the regs says its wrong because on the page after its banging on about it being fine if you have upto 16KA PFC, but at the same time why put those ratings on the mcbs? the mcb failed due to a disconnection time issue.

 
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