Cable Capacitance Test
650V IT Distribution System

Can anyone advise on a correct method for this test.

I presume from your post this is a medical location???, cable capacitance testing is unfortunately a very inaccurate science even under laboratory conditions, the equipment you need for this is a capacitance bridge that is capable of measuring within 0.01% of absolute value, my advice would be to run this through the cable manufacturer first as they might have values available, you can get capacitance meters and they tend to be rack mounted and expensive.

regards

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Edited: 10 December 2012 at 12:45 AM by rocknroll

I doubt it's medical Rock - not at that voltage

MEiGan doesn't call up capacitive testing as the limit if for 10kVA per system so capacitive coupling will be low.

650V, ITearthed sounds industrial to me - you need knowledge of the cable capacitance because you don't have solid earthing (it will influence the earth fault current)

Regards

OMS

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I'd guess @ 650V it would be railway related?...

I believe the London Underground traction supply is a 630v dc IT system with earth monitoring. In some stations, the lift and escalator supplies are taken from the traction supply.

Regards,

Alan.

Judging by the voltage I would guess this is probably a non-earth referenced Network Rail signalling feeder.



Yes, I would think the OP is trying to determine the touch voltage under 1st earth fault conditions.

Edited: 10 December 2012 at 12:48 PM by Inrush