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http://syreensugus.blogspot.com/2010/04/its- tym- to- explore.html May 11, 2013

:: Day 2 -6th April 2010- (Tuesday):: ~En. Zaidi as my supervisor guided my to the "Stor Bakar Arang" where all the engineers,technicians and foremens gather before the go out to sites. I met En.Azrin as the AP (Authority Person) at the yard. We had a short briefing with other team members on tasks that need to be done for today. *the place where the technicians,engineers and foremans have their meeting every morning* This is my team members : - Uncle Sundar as the leader- Abg Zul -as the lorry driver- Zul a.k.a ustaz (they called him ustaz coz he's wearing lebai :P ; practical student from Comunity College- Farhan a.ka. Paan- Farid- Hairi - and me =) and our journey begins~~~.... *our beloved lorry* vRrOomm..VrOOmm...VrOoom..~:D 7 of us went to Kuala Ketil to do maintenance at the substations(pencawang). Around 10 substations had been visited. This was the first time I entered a substation.I was so excited to know what are the things been "hiding" inside the substations and how do they look and what are the functions. Today I know how the transformer look like,the Switch Gear,The LVDB(Low Voltage Distribution Board)and Feeder Pillar. All these are the basic things at a substations. ~~ SUBSTATION ~~ *the technicians do the checking and maintanance on the EFI(s)* Other than do checking on the battery of the EFI,we also need to installed EFI at the substation which did not have one. Which substation that need to be installed an EFI is depend on the map given from Abg Azrin as the foreman. An EFI must be place after the previous substation who did not has any EFI. ~Informations on :EFI [ Earth Fault Indicator ]: The faulty cable length is easy located by tracing the last indicator that has been tripped and the first indicator which has not tripped. The

faulty section can be switched off and the rest of the cable can be put into operation again. The Led will be placed outside the substation so that it is easier for the technician to see which substation has tripped. For each EFI,they have different bits set to be set occording to the specifications given by the engineers. Each type of bit sets are representing the duration of time for the EFI to keep operating when trip happened. We have setted the bits to " 1 3 7 9 11 12 " to set the LED to keep blinking for 3hours. LVDB [ Low Voltage Distribution Board ] * brand : VEI * * brand : Tamco * Occurding to Uncle Sundar, "1 transformer,1 LV board". So,the number or LV board is depends on the number of transformer at the substation. TRANSFORMER There are different type of transformer. Today i learn about CT(Current Transformer) and Voltage Transformer. At each EFI,there is a CT to detect when tripped occur in the cable while at the substations,we use voltage transformer. Different types of transfomer is being used depends on the number or loads/consumer at the particular of place. There are 50,750,1000 etc. Switch Gear Typically,switchgear in substations is located on both the high voltage and the low voltage side of large power transformers. The switchgear is located on the low voltage side of the transformers in distribution type substations.The switch gear that I saw today use Gas (SF6) circuit breakers. There is a meter showing the "green"-for safe to enter the room, and "red"-when it is not safe to enter the room because full of the gas. There are also different brands for the switch gear: - Tamco - Merlin Gerin - VEI