Types and Components of Transformation Posts
Types and Components of Transformation Posts
TRANSFORMATION
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Transformation Post
They serve to reduce Medium Voltage to Low
Usable voltage for the final domestic consumer
commercial or small industrial.
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Support insulators
For the fixation of the conductors
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Passing insulators
Insulator of They are generally made of porcelain.
passage to
interior
They are pierced throughout their
length to allow for
placement of the driver that the
crosses from top to top.
Insulator of
ticket for
air entry in PT
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Busbar conductors
The conductors for busbars are
usually made of copper, of section Isolator
support
circular or rectangular.
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Protection organs
Circuit breakers
They are switches in which the opening
can be done in the circuit
automatically protecting the
overcurrent circuits.
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Sectioning organs
Disconnectors
They are devices intended for
interrupt or establish
the continuity of a
conductor or to isolate it from
other drivers and that, for
not having cutting power
guaranteed, they should not be
maneuvered in load.
Only after the current has been turned off by a switch, the
switches must be operated.
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Transformer
In Portugal, there are, in addition to protection bodies, those for dissection.
and transformers that reduce M.T. (tension
nominal less than 60 kV. The most common voltages are 10, 15, and 30 kV.
for B.T.
The primary of the transformer is fed by the three-phase cable in M.T.
and from the secondary comes a cable (or an overhead line) with three phases and
neutral in B.T., which will supply a set of housing.
P.T. Neutral regime
in BT type TT.
Neutral of
connected transformer
230/400 V
M.T. directly to the ground
of service. Masses
Neutral
of use
interconnected to the ground
of protection, which
must be unique.
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The transformation stations and,
above all, the compartment
where are the installed
transformers, must be
conveniently ventilated.
There must, therefore, be a
cold air intake, near the
transformer is close to the ground, and
a heated air outlet, along with
to the coverage.
Transformer
Pit for
collection of
oil
spilled
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Types of Transformation Posts
There are two different types: urban distribution PT, contained in a
masonry construction, possibly in a metal box (compact),
Rural distribution out, aerial suspended on pole.
air ticket
Compact urban PT
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