6 articles tagged with "Transformer"
What they usually mean is that they want to feed a black-box model a pile of SCADA data and hope it spits out a setpoint that doesn't trigger a trip.
If you are relying on a generic PDF report to drive your procurement or maintenance strategy, you are missing the physics.
If you are currently designing a [grid-tied-inverter-efficiency](/blog/grid-tied-inverter-efficiency) study or specifying distribution transformers, you need...
If you are treating your substation transformers as static assets, you are already behind the curve.
The cost of the oil analysis was trivial; the cost of the replacement transformer, the environmental remediation, and the downtime was catastrophic.
It’s also a dangerous oversimplification that has led to more than a few premature insulation failures and unnecessary capital expenditure headaches.