Industrial equipment, residential loads and commercial buildings are both a cause and a victim of the effects of poor power quality. The Power Quality Team here at the Centre has been involved in many exciting power quality related projects in past years. High voltage circuit breakers must be maintained regularly.
Unnecessary maintenance can be time consuming and costly.
Continuous, on-line maintenance holds the promise of allowing the engineer to predict the optimum time at which maintenance should be performed. In 1997, the Centre outfitted 3 seperate condition monitoring systems in order to evaluate each seperate system. The task of monitoring, collecting and analysing data is still on-going. This transmission can be confused if linear or compact fluorescent lamps are in proximity with the receiver, resulting in command misinterpretation. Anomalous Flashovers on the Nelson River HVDC System Manitoba Hydro has experience numerous, unexplained flashovers since the inception of the Nelson River HVDC transmission system.