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Maintenance of A Generator's Circuit Breaker

The document provides instructions for safely maintaining a generator's circuit breaker. It outlines safety precautions like shutting down the prime mover, ensuring the circuit breaker is off, and disconnecting accessories. It then lists parts that should be inspected, such as cables for loose connections, terminal boxes for water/oil, and cleaning the generator windings with compressed air to remove dust and dirt. Damage to insulation from abrasion or contamination can shorten the generator's life and should be cleaned and repaired.

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Maintenance of A Generator's Circuit Breaker

The document provides instructions for safely maintaining a generator's circuit breaker. It outlines safety precautions like shutting down the prime mover, ensuring the circuit breaker is off, and disconnecting accessories. It then lists parts that should be inspected, such as cables for loose connections, terminal boxes for water/oil, and cleaning the generator windings with compressed air to remove dust and dirt. Damage to insulation from abrasion or contamination can shorten the generator's life and should be cleaned and repaired.

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“Maintenance of a Generator’s Circuit Breaker”

Before working with generator for maintenance, the following safety precautions are to be
followed:

1. Shut down the prime mover of the generator.


2. Make sure the circuits breaker of that generator is in OFF position.
3. All the accessories equipment connection will be disconnected, especially
space heater and automatic voltage regulator.
4. Inform the officer on duty regarding that matter. Display warning notice on
control gear.

Parts to be inspected

The following parts and accessories are to be inspected to determine and origin of common
electrical fault that would need necessary remedial action.

1. All cables connected to the generator should be inspected; loose connection in


its terminal and loose bolts or nuts should be tightened.
2. Inspect terminal boxes for sign of water and oil in the insulation of the cable
and pipe. Clean the exhaust opening and cooling sir intakes so that it is free of
dust and dirt.
3. Dismantle the generator, then clean and inspect the wind of the generator
rotor and stator using vacuum cleaner and low pressure dry, compressed air
to remove dust and dirt. Use clean cloth for rubbing the rotor and stator
winding to remove dirt and dust. Use industrial type vacuum cleaner with
plastic nozzle to prevent damage in the winding insulation.

Factor that reduce the insulation resistance of the winding are water and oil
contamination which shorten the life of the generator.

Damaged insulation in winding due to abrasion, clean and repair by applying


insulation varnish.

Chapter 6
“Newton’s Law of Motion”

Kinetics
 is the description of motion without regards to what cause the motion.

Kinematic

 description is concerned with how the events happens.

Dynamics

 is concerned not only how the events happens, but also why the events occurs as it
does.

Inertia

 is that property of an object to maintain its state of rest or of uniform motion.

Newton’s First Law Of Motion (Law of Inertia)

“Object at rest, tend to remain at rest; object moving with a velocity maintains that
velocity provided that the net force acting on it is to zero.”

Example

Two forces are pushing a box on opposite sides exerting same amount of force, since they are
pushing on an opposite direction, the box will not move.

Newton’s Second Law (Law of Acceleration)

“The acceleration of a moving body is directly proportional and in the same direction as
the net force acting on it but inversely proportional to its mass.”

If the force is in the direction of motion, the object tends to move faster; it accelerates. If
the direction of the force is opposite to that of the direction of motion, the object tends to
move slowly; it decelerates.

Newton’s Third law Of Motion (Law of Interaction or Momentum)


“For every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction.”

Example

The wheel of a car pushes backward on the road and the road pushes forward on the wheels with
an equal force.

The rocket propulsion, the explosion discharge a gases causes a trust backward that is equal to
the force.

Chapter 7
“Inertia”

Mass

 is the amount of matter concentrated in a single body.

Inertia

 resistance to change in its state of motion.

It is useful to consider the inertia force as a resistance to change of motion, or a


resistance from being accelerated. These resisting force are similar in nature with that of
the accelerating force F but opposite directed to that of the velocity, thereby slowing down
the motion of the body. Therefore, if R is the resistance to uniform motion, and E the
applied force required to overcome the resistance in the free-body.

E= ma+R

F= E-R=ma

Active and Reactive Force

Active force is one which can itself cause a change in motion;

Reactive force is one which cannot cause appreciable change of motion by itself it has to
depend on the action of an active force.

Application of Inertia to connected bodies

A wooden block with mass m2 being pulled along a level plane by a cord
passing over a light frictionless pulley and attached to the freely hanging. If
we assume no resistance to motion, m1 will accelerate downward with an
acceleration a, and provide there is no the cord, m2 will have the same
acceleration horizontally.

The horizontal force on m2 are the tension T from left to right and the inertia
force m2 a in direction opposite to that of a (from right to left) there is a
vertical reaction N on m2 supporting the weight m2, which does not enter into
the problem, in the absence of friction.

T=m2a

m1ag=(m1 + m2)a

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