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Short-Circuit Page - Lumped Load Editor

Enter the short-circuit parameters for the motor load portion of the lumped load here.

Note: All data in this page is based on the motor percentage of the total lumped load rating.

Short-Circuit Contribution
LRC
This is the locked-rotor current in percent of the motor load share of the lumped load current. For example, a
lumped load with 120 amperes at 80% motor loading will have a motor current of 96 amperes; therefore, at 600%
LRC, the actual LRC will be 576 amperes (600% * 96 A).

Short-circuit contribution levels are defined individually for ANSI and IEC methods.

ANSI method short-circuit contributions are categorized per the following table:

Short-Circuit Low Voltage ( 600 Volts) High Voltage ( > 600 Volts)
Contribution
High Large (100 < HP < 250) Large ( HP > 1000)
Medium Medium (50 HP 100) Medium (250 HP 1000)
Low Small ( HP < 50) Small (HP < 250)

IEC method short-circuit contribution are categorized per the following table.

Short-Circuit Contribution HP Speed

High Large High RPM

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Medium Medium Intermittent RPM

Low Small Low RPM

% Total Load
For Converntional and Unbalanced loads, this fields is equal to the total motor load in percent. For Exponential,
Polynomial, and Comprehensive, ETAP will utilize P0 and Q0 times the value specified in this field as the total
load for consideration in the short-circuit calculations.

Grounding
These entries specify grounding connection, type, and rating of the lumped motor.

Connection
The grounding connection can be selected by clicking on the connection buttons until the desired connection is
displayed. The available connections are Wye and Delta.

Type
For Wye-connected lumped motors, choose from these four grounding types provided in the list box:
Open Neutral is not connected to ground (ungrounded).
Solid Solidly grounded, no intentional impedance in the neutral grounding path.
Resistor A resistor is used in the neutral grounding path.
Reactor A reactor is used in the neutral grounding path.

Amp Rating
For resistor or reactor grounded lumped motor, enter the resistor or reactor rating in amperes.

Amp Rating = (Line-to-Neutral Voltage) / (Resistor Ohmic Value)

1/2
where the line-to-neutral voltage is the bus nominal voltage of the motor divided by (3) .

X/R Ratio
X/R
Lumped motors X/R ratio (Xsc/Ra)

Typical
If Typical is selected, typical X/R value will be substituted in the X/R field.

ANSI Short-Circuit
Std MF / Xsc
If you select Std MF, ETAP uses the following ANSI Multiplying Factors for calculating the positive sequence
short-circuit impedances. If you select the Xsc option, you can directly enter the short-circuit impedances in
percent with motor ratings as the base. Note that the IEC short-circuit method does not use these impedances.

Motor Size Xsc Xsc

HP kW Equivalent RPM Cycle 1.5-4 Cycle Network
Network
> 1000 HP > 745.7 1800 1.0/LRC 1.5/LRC
> 250 HP > 186.4 3600 1.0/LRC 1.5/LRC
50 HP 37.28 other 1.2/LRC 3.0/LRC
< 50 HP < 37.28 1.67/LRC Infinity

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IEC Short-Circuit
X
This is the motor subtransient reactance in percent (machine base)

m
This is the m factor.

X
This is the motor steady-state reactance in percent (machine base). This is not used for IEC 60363 SC calculations.

Td'
This is the motor transient time constant in seconds; this value is used in the IEC 363 method.

Td' = X" / (2p f Rr) (Rr = rotor resistance)

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