SPARK/STAR/2003/06

Replacement Extended Link on Station Battery Bank at 220/132/33 KV Grid

Sub-Station

SITUATION:
At 220/132/33 KV Grid Sub-Station, It was observed problem with the extended wire link on
the Station Battery Bank.

Observations:
1. The old connected wire link from cell no 56 to 57
of set 1 was broken.
2. Spark was observed at the termination point. But
luckily, it was detected by the operation staff and
action of replacement was planned.

TASK:
1. Replacement action was planned.
2. Basic concept and SAFETY aspect was
studied

ACTION and ANALYSIS:

Damaged Terminal Point
1. The battery bank was connected with the charger
and parallel connection to load as per
the float connection mode.
2. So, direct dis-connection and re-
connection by new wire link could be
dangerous to the operator.
3. So, it was planned of availing total
load outage, keeping Grid Sub-
Station under Shut-down.
4. The Grid was availed full shut-down,
the charger was made OFF and
Battery bank was taken out of load
circuit.
5. Now the old wire link along with New Wire-Link for the Battery Set
terminal at the cell was replaced by
the new one.
6. One of the cell was also replaced by another, by re-conditioning of the cell.

Result and Recommendation:

1. Successful changing of Extended cable was done.
2. It was recommended that for Any Maintenance work on running Battery Bank for the
in-service Grid, the Total Battery system should have to be availed SHUT DOWN.

SPARK/STAR/2003/06