Cable Sizing

Part 2
by febriansasi at gmail dot com

Cable Sizing
Standard in my country using IEC
standard
Metric
50Hz

Pick any cable from library

Pick any cable from library

Tick Load Amp to use standard cable ampacity

It means ETAP will select based on load FLA
without concern with Voltage drop

Tick Vst Min to use calculated Voltage Start Minimum

It means ETAP will select based on Voltage Drop when
Starting Motor

Tick Short Circuit use calculated current withstand

It means ETAP will select based on shortcircuit current (we
will discuss later after I study about this)

Tick Short Circuit use calculated current withstand

It means ETAP will select based on shortcircuit current (we
will discuss later after I study about this)

Tick MF (multiplication factor)

It means ETAP will select based on multiplication factor
regarding with the application (we will discuss later after I
study about this)

Tick Load Amp and Vst to combine the calculation

It means ETAP will select based on FLA and Voltage start

Load Flow

Change The cable sizing calculation

Using Motor starting simulation to calculate Vst

As we can see, even we set the Vst to 95% the result is 86.5%

Using Motor starting simulation to calculate

Vd Max

Motor reactive power demand

Motor real power demand

Bus voltage

Motor current

Thank You