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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 50mins
Many tools designed to improve a ? quality are not only among the first to suffer from a lack of quality, but sometimes contribute to the problems they are intended to resolve.
load supply
load resistance
power supply
supply resistance
Companies invest in additional back-up equipment for sensitive equipment, which adds to the demand on the power supply and are sensitive to ? in the system.
equipment manufacturers
fluctuations
load demands
personnel interactions
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Voltage phasors, or vectors, are separated by ? degrees in a normal three-phase power distribution system.
45
90
120
180
A ? is a decrease from the nominal voltage supply level.
cutout
sag
swell
spike
The three electrical theory laws: Ohm’s Law, Kirchoff’s voltage law and Kirchoff’s current law, are used to trace the ? of most PQ-related problems.
equipment
imagined
remediation
source
Which of the five scenarios identified by NIOSH that describe the incidents resulting in 244 fatalities had the highest percentage for workers in the electrical industry ? .
Boomed vehicle contact with an energized power line.
Conductive equipment contact with an energized power line.
Direct worker contact with energized equipment.
Direct worker contact with an energized power line.
The use of proper personal protective equipment is intended to reduce or prevent ? .
competition
injury
PQ phenomena
profit
What single activity was identified as being performed when an accident occurred?
equipment installation
device installation
software configuration
troubleshooting
A 3% voltage imbalance between phases may result in the need to de-rate electric motors by ? .
3%
10%
12%
25%
Both voltage unbalance and harmonics are generally considered as ? power quality problems.
estimated
intermittent
steady state
temporary
A power quality instrument should be rated for the anticipated range of ? and ? levels.
current, wattage
power factor, wattage
voltage, power
voltage, current
When accurate measurements are needed on sinusoidal waveforms to detect ? , only true RMS meters should be used.
distortions
electronic faults
power
temperature
Sub-quarter-cycle changes in the wave shape which usually do not trigger an RMS variation are defined as what?
current waveforms
resistive loading
transients
voltage waveforms
When performing a PQ analysis, monitoring to establish a benchmark should be conducted for at least ? to get a more complete picture of the electrical supply.
one day
one week
one month
one year
If harmonic distortion was found to be noticeably larger on a single phase when compared to all phases, during a PQ study and analysis; what would an intuitive cause be for the increase in total harmonic distortion (THD)?
Alternating current equipment connected to supply resistive loads.
Excessive resistive loads on one circuit.
Single phase non linear loads.
Too many D.C. rated devices used in an A.C. circuit supply conductors.
The ? of two improperly-made ground connections causes current to flow in a ground loop path, with possible noise and/or component failures.
direct current component
excessive ground potential
potential difference
sum
When measuring equipment efficiency, monitoring should be conducted ? .
across the full range of loading
at a time weighted average load
at maximum load
at minimum anticipated long term load
What is the likely direction or source of the fault condition if the current increases significantly when the voltage decreases?
Downstream and upstream.
Downstream towards the load.
Non-determinate, no way to determine from data.
Upstream towards the source.
Improperly grounded communication cables between peripherals and the mainframe computer may become a problem when exposed to strong level RF signals through all of the following except ? .
EMF coupling
inductance
inductive coupling
resistive loads
Well-grounded, properly-sized UL listed ? should be installed on any metallic interface that extends outside a structure, including the incoming electric service, phone lines, and any exterior branch circuits.
power shunts
surge protection
transient sources
ungrounded enclosures
On a single-phase circuit, the origin of a voltage sag is usually ? if the neutral-to-ground voltage increased significantly during the sag.
downstream
in parallel
shorted
upstream
Sag is the sum of ? in both the line (hot) and neutral (grounded) wires.
current draw (load)
potential fault
voltage drops
watt usage
A single phase, rectified input, switching power supply will have a sharp ? in current at the beginning of a sag, followed by an increase in current to a value greater than the original current level, until the sag has ended or the equipment trips off line.
increase
reduction
spike
supply
Learning which mitigation solutions will work for which power quality phenomena can be studied from the ? side or the ? side.
current / voltage
equipment failure / utility source
phenomena / solution
voltage / power factor
All of the following are classifications for PQ phenomena except ? conditions.
equipment failure
long duration
steady state
transient
