Summary: Controllix Corporation transitioned a coastal utility from using open rack style capacitor banks to their advanced metal-enclosed capacitor banks. This change notably improve...
This page provides links to technical data, text, tables, case histories and schematics for the beginner and the experienced user of capacitor banks and harmonic filters for utility, industrial and commercial power systems. These links will assist in making purchasing decisions, how to work with capacitor products, and provide as much in depth technical knowledge as practical for those who require more than a passing knowledge of capacitors.
1402, 2016
Controlling System Voltage
Without capacitors, the voltage drop across a system is calculated as: […]
1402, 2016
1402, 2016
Seismic Certification of Capacitor Equipment
Controllix metal-enclosed capacitor banks are designed for withstanding the most violent of natural phenomena, including earthquakes and wind storms. Specifically, Controllix equipment is certified for Zone 4 seismic compliance. The results of studies (available upon [...]
1402, 2016
Air Core vs. Iron Core Reactors
Introduction At the medium voltage level, 2.4kV through 34.5kV, harmonic filters are often designed, specified, and manufactured with either Iron-core or Air-core reactors. The preference for one reactor over the other may be from experience, [...]
1402, 2016
Guide for Plant Engineers
Power Factor and Harmonics Power factor is defined as real power, the power that does work, divided by apparent power, the power that must be delivered in order to get the work done. Real power [...]
1402, 2016
Metal Enclosed vs. Rack-Mounted Capacitor Banks
A Metal-Enclosed Bank comes fully assembled, tested, and ready for interconnection. No field assembly is required. Therefore installation costs and problems associated with mistakes during installation are very low. Maintenance costs for [...]
