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AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD

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CONTENTS

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Foreword............................................................................................................................................. 1 Scope purpose ............................................................................................................................. and 1.1 Scope ........................................................................................................................................ 1.2 Purpose..................................................................................................................................... ii
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Voltageratingsfor 60-hetz electricpowersystems ............................................................................ 1 2.1 Definitions ................................................................................................................................. 1 2 2.2 Selection of nominal system voltages....................................................................................... f 2.3 Explanation o voltage ranges................................................................................................... 3 2.4 Aplication of voltage ranges ...................................................................................................... 3 Voltageratingsfor60-hertzelectricequipment ................................................................................... 4 3.1 General ..................................................................................................................................... 4 3.2 Recommendation...................................................................................................................... 4 Principal transformer connections to supplythe system voltages of table 1 ............................ 7 Illustration of voltage ranges of table 1 ..................................................................................... 8 Voltage ratings for 60-hertz elecltric utilization equipment........................................................ 9 Polyphasevoltageunbalance ................................................................................................. 12 Applicablestandards ............................................................................................................... 14

Annex A Annex B Annex C Annex D Annex E

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Foreword

(This Foreword is not part of American National Standard C84.1-1995)

This standard supersedes American National Standard for Electric Power Systemsand Equipment Voltage Ratings (60 Hz),ANSI C84.1-1989. Standard nominal system voltages and voltage ranges shown in the previous standard remain unchanged this standard. Revisions have been made to the text of in clauses 1.2(1), 1.2(6), 2.1.2. 1,2.1.2.2,2.3, 3.2(2) and to the equation in D3. As in the previous standard, for reference information on extra-high voltage conformsto American National Standard Power Systems Alternating-Current Electrical Systems and Equipment OperatingVoltages above 230 kV Nominal at Preferred Voltage Ratings,ANSI C92.2-1987. ln 1942, the Edison Electric Institute published document Utilization Voltage Standardization the joint report was issued in 1949 by Recommendations, EEI Pub. No. J-8. Based on that early document, a the Edison Electric Institute (EEI Pub. No. R6) and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA Pub. No. 117). This 1949 publication was subsequently approved American National Standard as EEI-NEMA Preferred Voltage Ratings for Systems and Equipment, ANSI C84.1-1954. AC American National Standard C84.1-1954 was a pioneering effortits field. It not only made carefully in considered recommendations on voltage ratings electric systems and equipment, but also contained a for considerable amountof much-needed educational material. After ANSI C84.1-1954 was prepared, the capacities power supply systemsand customers' wiring of systems increased and their unit voltage drops decreased. New utilization equipment was introduced and developments exerted an important power requirementsof individual equipment were increased. These influence both on power systems equipment design and on operating and characteristics. In accordance with American National Standards Institute policy requiring periodic review of its standards, American National Standards Committee C84 was activated in 1962 to review and revise American National Standard C84.1-1954, the Edison Electric Institute and National Electrical Manufacturers Association being named cosponsors for the project. Membership the C84 Committee represented a on wide diversityof experience inthe electrical industry.To this invaluable pool of experience were added the findings of the following surveys conducted by the committee: system design and operating practices, including (1) A comprehensive questionnaire on power f coming from measurement o actual service voltages. (Approximately 65,000 readings were recorded, all partsof the United States and from systems all sizes, whether measured by number of of customers or by extent of service areas.) (2) A sampling of single-phase distribution transformer production kilovolt-amperes and primary by voltage ratings to determine relative uses medium voltages. of (3) A survey of utilization voltages at motor terminals at approximately twenty industrial locations The worth of any standard is measured by degree of its acceptance and use. After careful the consideration, and in view the state of the art and the generally better understanding of the factors of involved, the C84 Committee concluded that a successor standard to ANSI C84.1-1954 should be developed andpublished in a much simplified form, thereby promoting easeof understanding and hence its acceptance and use. This resultedin the approval and publication of American National Standard C84.1-1970, followed by its supplement, ANSI C84.1 a-1973, which provides voltage limits established for the 600-volt nominal system voltage. The 1977 revision of the standard incorporated expanded Forewordthat provided a more complete an history of this standard's development. The 1970 revision includedsignificantly more useful Table 1 (by a designating "preferred"system voltages), the 1977 revision provided further clarity, and the 1982 revision segmented the system voltages the variousvoltage classes. into

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Suggestions for improvement of the standard will be welcome. They shouldbe sent to the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, 1300 N. 17th Street, Rosslyn, Virginia 22209. This standard was processed and approved for submittalANSI by Accredited Standards Committee on to of Preferred Voltage Ratings AC Systems and Equipment, C84. Committee approval the standard does for not necessarily imply that all committee members voted for its approval. the time it approved this At standard, the C84 committee had the following members:

Daniel J. Ward, Chairman Walter J. Ros, Vice-Chairman Lawrence F. Miller, Secretary

Name Represenfed Organizations

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Accredited Standards Committee on Electric Lamps, C78 (Liaison) ...............A. Rousseau Accredited Standards Committee on Industrial Gas Equipment, Installations and Utilization, 283 (Liaison) ...................................................... Accredited Standards Committee on National Electrical Code, C l (Liaison) ............................................................. Air Conditioning& Refrigeration Institute ......................................................... Gordon E. Willert Arthur E. Cote Gary Acton George W. Brandt Thomas A. Jacoby (Alt.) Leonard Van Tassel (Alt.) John T. Weizeorick (Representation Vacant) Robert Babcock Manuel De La Rosa Robert Glickman (Alt.) John A. Wyatt Matthew C. Mingoia . . - (Alt.) Michael Pavuk Paul Ruganis Donnie Trivitt Daniel J. Ward Donald S. Brereton J. J. Burke Larry E. Conrad Stanley S. Kershaw (Alt.) Gary T. Smullin Robert G. Bartheld Donald Corrigall Ronald Gracyk(Alt.) Loy Hicks Walter J. Ros Robert Bergland (Alt.) Rob Church

Accredited Standards Committee on Power Switchgear (Liaison) ..................Charles T. Zegers

Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers ............................................... Canadian Standards Association (Liaison) ...................................................... Certified Ballast Manufacturers Association ................................................... Department of Water & Power, Cityof Los Angeles .......................................

.................................................................... Electric Light and Power Group......................................................................

Electronic Industries Association

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers .............................................

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C84.1-1995

for Electric Power Systems and EquipmentVoltage Ratings (60 Hertz)

1 1.1 Scope and purpose Scope

This standard establishes nominal voltage ratings and operating tolerances60-hertz electric power for systems above 100 volts and through230 kilovolts. It also makes recommendationsto other standardizing groups with respectto voltage ratings for equipment used on power systems and utilization devices for connected to such systems.
NOTE-For completeness, informationon extra-high voltage systems(345 kilovolts and higher) fromAmerican National Standard for Power Systems Alternating-Current Electrical Systems and Equipment Operating Voltagesabove 230 kV Nominalat Preferred Voltage Ratings,ANSI C92.2-1987, is also included as a footnote to table 1.

1.2

Purpose

The purposesof this standard areto: Promote abetter understanding of the voltages associated with power systems and utilization equipment to achieve overall practical and economical design and operation Establish uniform nomenclaturein the field of voltages Promote standardization of nominal system voltages and ranges voltage variations for of operating systems Promote standardizationof equipment voltage ratings and tolerances Promote coordinationof relationships between system and equipment voltage ratings and tolerances of Provide a guide future development and design equipment to achieve the best possible for conformance with the needs the users of Provide a guide, with respect choice of voltages, for new power system undertakings and to for changes in old ones
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Voltage ratings for 60-hertz electric power systems Definitions

2.1.1 system or power system: The connected system of power apparatus used to deliver electric to power from the source the utilization device. Portions of the system may be under different ownership, such as thatof a supplier or a user.

2.1.2

System voltage terms

2.1.2.1 system voltage: The root-mean-square (rms) phase-to-phase voltage a portion of an of alternating-currentelectric system. Each system voltage pertains a portionof the system that is to bounded by transformers orutilization equipment. (All voltages hereafter are rms phase-to-phase or phase-to-neutral voltages.)

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2.1.2.2 nominal systemvoltage: The voltage by which a portion of the system is designated, and to to which certain operating characteristics the system are related. Each nominal system voltage pertains of a portionof the system bounded by transformers or utilization equipment. 2.1.2.3 maximum system voltage:The highest system voltage that occursunder normal operating conditions, andthe highest system voltage for which equipment other componentsare designed for and satisfactory continuous operation without derating any kind. In defining maximumsystem voltage, of voltage transients and temporary overvoltages caused by abnormal system conditions suchas faults: load rejection, and the like are excluded. However,voltage transients and temporary overvoltagesmay affect equipment operating performance and considered in equipment application. are 2.1.2.4 service voltage: The voltage atthe point where theelectrical system of the supplier and the electrical system of the userare connected. 2.1.2.5 utilization voltage: The voltage at theline terminals of utilization equipment. 2.1 -2.6 nominal utilization voltage: The voltage rating of certain utilization equipment used the on system. The nominal system voltages contained table 1 apply to all parts of the system, both of the supplier and in of the user. The ranges are given separately for service voltage and for utilization voltage, these normally being at different locations. is recognized thatthe voltage at utilizationpoints is normally somewhat It lower thanat the service point.In deference to this fact, and the fact that integral horsepower motors, or air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, or both, may constitute a heavy concentrated load on some circuits, the rated voltages such equipmentand of motors and motor-control equipmentare usually of lower than nominal system voltage. corresponds to the range of utilization voltages in This table 1. Other utilization equipment is generally rated at nominal system voltage. 2.1.3 Systemvoltageclasses

2.1.3.1 low voltage: A class of nominal system voltages 1O00 volts or less. 2.1.3.2 medium voltage: A class of nominal system voltages greater than1O00 volts and less than 1O0 O00 volts. 2.1 -3.3 high voltage: A class of nominal system voltages equal to or greaterthan 1O0 O00 volts and equal 230 to or less than O00 volts. 2.2 Selection of nominal system voltages

When a new system is tobe built or a new voltage level introduced into an existing system, one (or more) of the preferred nominal system voltages shown boldface type in table 1 should be selected. The logical in and economical choice a particular system amongthe voltages thus distinguished will depend upon a for of number of factors, such as the character and size the system. Other system voltages thatare in substantial use in existing systems areshown in lightface type. Economic considerations will require that these voltages continue in use and in some cases may require that their use be extended; however, these voltages generally should not utilized in new systems orin be new voltage levels in existing systems. The 41 60-volt, 6900-volt, and 800-volt three-wire systems are particularly suited for industrial systems 13 that supply predominantly polyphase loads, including large motors, because these voltages correspond to the standard motor ratings of 4000 volts, 6600 volts, and 13 200 volts, as isexplained further in 2.1.2.6. Two of these system voltages are shown boldface type to indicate thatthey should be used for this in

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purpose. Itis not intendedto recommend the use of these system voltages for utility primary distribution, for which four-wire voltages 12 47OYl7200 volts or higher shouldbe used. of

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Explanation of voltage ranges

For any specific nominal system voltage, voltages actually existing atvarious.points at various times the on any power system, or on any group of systems, or the industry as a whole, usually will distributed in be within the maximum and minimum voltages showntable 1. The design and operation power systems in of to and the designof equipment to be supplied from such systems should be coordinated with respect these voltages so that the equipment perform satisfactorily in conformance with product standards will throughout the range actual utilization voltages that will be encountered on system. To furtherthis of the objective, this standard establishes, each nominal system voltage, for two ranges for service voltage and utilization voltage variations, designated as Rangeand Range B, the limits of which are givenin table 1. A These limits shall apply sustained voltage levels and not momentary voltage excursions that may to to remit from such causes as switching operations, motor starting currents, andthe like.

2.4 2.4.1

Application of voltage ranges Range A-service voltage

Electric supply systems shall so designed and operated that most service voltages will within the be be A. limits specified for Range The occurrence of service voltages outside of these limits should be infrequent.

2.4.2

Range A-utilization voltage

User systems shall be designed and operated that with service voltages so within Range A limits, most utilization voltages will within the limits specifiedfor this range. be Utilization equipment shall designed and rated to give be fully satisfactory performance throughout this range.

2.4.3

Range B-service andutilization voltages

Range B includes voltages aboveand below Range A limits that necessarily result from practical design and operating conditions supply or user systems, or both. Although such conditions a part of on are practical operations, they shallbe limited in extent, frequency, and duration. When they occur, corrective measures shall be undertaken within a reasonabletime to improve voltagesto meet RangeA requirements. Insofar as practicable, utilization equipment shall be designed to give acceptable performance the in extremes of the rangeof utilization voltages, although not necessarily as good performance in Range as A. It should be recognized that because conditions beyond the control of the supplier or user, or both, of there will be infrequent and limited periods whensustained voltages outside RangeB limits will occur. Utilization equipment may not operate satisfactorily under these conditions, and protective devices may operate to protect the equipment. When voltages occur outside limits of Range B, prompt, corrective action shall be taken. The urgency the for such action will depend upon many factors, as the location and nature of the load or circuits such involved, and the magnitude and duration the deviation beyond Range B limits. of

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3.1

Voltage ratings and other characteristics of the various classesof 60-hertz electric equipment are established in other standards. partial list of these standards is givenin Annex E. A For the principal types of electric utilization equipment, nameplate voltage ratings and corresponding the nominal system voltages which they are applicable are listed in tables C l , C2, and C3 in Annex C. to Detailed tablesfor electric equipmentother than utilization equipment are not included.Those requiring detailed informationon voltage ratings of these other typesof equipment should consult the appropriate standards or themanufacturersto ensure proper application.

E Review of the nameplatevoltage ratings in Annex C and in current equipment standards listed in Annex indicates many inconsistenciesin the relationships among equipment nameplate ratings and between these ratings and nominal system voltages to which the equipment is applicable. For 120-volt base systems, equipmentvoltage ratings are variously based upon 115 volts, 120 volts, and 125 volts. The same one of these bases is not always used consistently forall equipment of the same general class.
This standard includes information, given in Annex D,to assist in the understanding about the effects of as unbalanced voltageson utilization equipment applied in polyphase systems.
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Recommendation

Insofar as practicable, whenever electric equipment standards revised: are

(1) Nameplate voltageratings should be changed as needed in order to provide a consistent relationship between the ratings all equipment of the same general class and the nominal system voltage on for the portionof the system on which they are designed to operate (2) The voltage rangesfor which equipment is designed should be changed as needed in order to be in accordance withthe ranges shown in table 1.

The voltage ratingsin each class of utilization equipment shouldbe either the same as the nominal system voltages or less than thenominal system voltages by the approximate ratioof 115 to 120.

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NOTES (a) Three-phase three-wire systems are systemsin which only the three-phase conductors are carried ouf from the source for connection loads. The source may derived from any type of three-phase of be or transformer connection, grounded ungrounded. Three-phasefour-wire systems are systems in which a grounded neutral conductor is also carried out from source for connection of loads. Fourthe wire systems in table 1 are designated by the phase-to-phasevoltage, followed by the letter Y (except for the 240/120-volt delta system),a slant line, andthe phase-to-neutralvoltage. Single-phase services and loads may be supplied from either single-phase or three-phase systems. The principal transformer connectionsthat are usedto supply single-phaseand three-phase systems are illustrated in AnnexA.
(b) The voltage ranges in this table are illustrated in Annex B.

(c) For 120-600-volt nominal systems, voltages this column are maximum service voltages. Maximum in utilization voltages would be expected to exceed 125 voltsfor the nominal system voltage of 120, not nor appropriate multiples thereof for other nominal system voltages through 600 volts.
(d) A modification of this three-phase, four-wire system is available as a 120/208Y-voltservice for singlephase, three-wire, open-wye applications. (e) Certain kinds of control and protective equipment presently available have a maximum voltage limit of 600 volts; the manufacturer or power supplier or both should be consulted to assure proper application. (f) Utilization equipment doesnot generally operate directlyat these voltages. For equipment supplied through transformers, refer limits for nominal system voltage transformer output. to of (9) For these systems Range and Range B limits are not shown because, where they are used as A service voltages,the operating voltage level on the user's system is normally adjusted by means of voltage regulationsto suit their requirements.

(h) Standard voltages are reprinted from American National Standard C92.2-1987 convenience only. for
(i) Nominal utilization voltages are for low-voltage motors and control. See Annex for other equipment C nominal utilization voltages (or equipment nameplate voltage ratings.)

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Annex A (informative)

Principal transformer connections to supply the system voltages of table 1 (See figure A l )

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NOTES The above diagrams show connections of transformer secondary windings to supply the nominal system voltages table 1. of Systems of more than 600 volts are normallythree-phase and supplied by connections (3), ungrounded, or (7). Systems (5) of 120-600 volts maybe either single-phaseor three phase, and all of the connections shown are used to some extent for some systemsin this voltage range. Three-phase, three-wire systems may be solidly grounded, impedance grounded, or ungrounded are not intended to but supply loads connected phase to-neutral (as the four-wire systems are). In connections(5) and (6) the ground may be connected to the midpoint of one winding as shown (if available), to one phase conductor ("comer' grounded), or omitted entirely (ungrounded). Single-phase services and single-phase loads may supplied from single-phase systems or from three-phase systems. be They are connected phase-to-phase when supplied from three-phase, three-wire systems and either phase-to-phase or phase-to-neutralfrom three-phase, four-wire systems.

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Annex B (informative) Illustration of voltage ranges of table 1 Figure B1 shows the basis of the Range A and Range B limits of table 1. The limits in table 1 were of to determined by multiplying the limits shown in this chart by the ratio each nominal system voltage the 120-volt base. [For exceptions, see note (d)figure B1 .] to
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NOTES (a) These shaded portions of the ranges do not apply to circuits supplyinglighting loads. See note 1 to table1. (b) This shaded portion of the range does not apply to 120-600-volt systems. See note(c) to table 1. (c) The difference between minimum service and minimum utilization voltagesis intended to allow for voltage drop in the customer's wiring system. This difference greater for service more than 600 is at volts to allow for additional voltage drop in transformations between service voltage and utilization equipment. (d) The Range B utilization voltage limits in table 1 for 6900-volt and 13800-volt systems are90% and 1 10% of the voltage ratings of the standard motors usedin these systems and deviate slightly from this figure.

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Annex C Voltage ratings for 60-hertz electric utilization equipment (Refer to Annex E for a partial list of applicable standards.) In tables Cl and C2 only representative categories equipment are listed because the of it sheer numberof present and prospective equipment makes impractical to cover all of them. Table C1 - Lamps, ballasts, and miscellaneous appliances
This Equipment Lighting devices Incandescent and vapor Fixtures high-pressure (W1 Motor-operated appliances [Note (c)] Hair dryers Clocks Dryers- clothes Fans Food mixers Food waste disposers Timers Vacuum cleaners Washen Clothes Dishes Communication appliances Projectors. silent and sound Small Large Phonographs Radios Tape recorders Television Applicable All Nominal to Equipment Voltages System Nameplate Containing Voltage(s) Voltage Rating 120

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120 120/240 120/208

Heating and cooking appliances Blankets Cooking appliances, table and counter Household -small Household large Commercial-small

120

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Commercial large Heaters, portable air Heating pads Irons Hand Soldering Rangers household type

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NOTES (a) Lighting systems incorporatingtwo ungrounded wires for service may require special ballasts and auxiliaries. (b) Some ballasts are rated for use on more than one system voltage by use of taps or multiple primary windings. (c) Attention is called to the factthat under emergency conditions on electric systems, voltages below Range B of table 1 may be encountered. This should be taken into account particularly in the design of motor-operatedappliances for automatic starting and in the application of motors and control.

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Table C2 - Heating, refrigeration, and air-conditioning equipment

Equipment oil fumaces and fractional hp coil units Stokers and Refrigerators Room air conditioners 1 Gas and Applicable to All Nominal Equipment Voltages Containing System Nameplate Phase Rating Voltage Voltage@) This 1 120 1 120 120

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Unitary air conditioners and heat pumps Motor compressors 3 units Condensing 3 Water-chilling packages coil units, etc. Integral fan hp Duct and electricfor auxiliaryheaters air-conditioning units and heat pumps Electric furnaces

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208, (200)' 230 208/23Ot, (200/230)'t 265 460

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For the purposeso this Annex, the term 'motor control equipment' is used in a general sense and f E. includes some types equipment classified as 'switchgear.' For applicable standards, see Annex of The single-phase and three-phase motor and control voltage ratings shown in table C3 are well suited to the nominal system voltages indicated. should be generally understood It that motors with these ratings for are to be considered as suitable ordinary use ontheir corresponding system;for example, a 230-volt motor is suited for use on a nominal 240-volt system. Operation 230-volt motors on 208-volt systems of is -10% not recommended because the utilization voltage encountered will commonly be below the tolerance on the voltagerating for which the motor is designed. APPENDIX Suitable measures should be taken by manufacturers and power suppliers to indicate to the purchaser s is that equipment i intended to be used on the system whose nominal voltageassociated with, but may both be numerically equal the equipment nameplate voltage rating; example, a motor and its to, for control rated 230 volts is intended for use on a nominal 240-volt system.
It should be noted that successful operation a motor under given running conditions does not of necessarily meanthat it will be ableto start and accelerateall loads to which it may be applied under these same operating conditions.
It should be recognized that synchronous motors, especially those rated power factor, are reactive 0.8 power sourcesand consequently may increase the voltage their terminals to higher values than those at experienced for induction motors under similar conditions.

Table C3 - Motor and motor control equipment

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Annex D Polyphase voltage unbalance

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Studies on the subjectof three-phase voltage unbalance indicate that: (1) all utility-related costs required to reduce voltage unbalance and manufacturing-related costs requiredto expand a motor's unbalanced all voltage operating range are ultimately borne directly by the customer,(2) utilities' incremental improvement costs are maximum as the voltage unbalance approaches zero and declinethe range as increases, and (3) manufacturers' incremental motor-related costs are minimum at zero voltage unbalance and increase rapidly as the range increases. When these costs, which exclude motor-related energy losses, combined, curves can be developed are that indicate the annual incremental cost the customerfor various selected percent voltage unbalance to limits. The optimal range of voltage unbalance occurs when the costs are minimum. Field surveys and statistics indicate that:
(1) Each motor rating is associated with a unique optimal range voltage unbalance of (2) These ranges vary from0-2.5 percent to 0-4.0 percent voltage unbalance with the average at

approximately 0-3.0 percent (3) Approximately 98 percent of the electric supply systems surveyed are within the 0-3.0 percent voltage-unbalance range, with percent at 0-1 .O percent or lass 66

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Electric supply systems shouldbe designed and operated limit the maximum voltage unbalance to to 3 percent when measured at the electric-utility revenue meter under no-load conditions. This recommendation should notbe construed as expanding the voltage ranges prescribed2.4. If the in unbalanced voltages of a polyphase system are near the upperlower limits specified in table 1, Range or A or Range B, each individual phase voltage should be within the limits in table 1.

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D.4 Derating

for unbalance

The rated load capability polyphase equipment is normallyreduced by voltage unbalance. A common of example is the derating factor, from figure D l , used in the application of polyphase induction motors.

D.5

Protection from severe voltage unbalance

User systems should designed and operated maintain a reasonably balanced load. be to In severe cases voltage unbalance, consideration shouldbe given to equipment protection by applying of unbalance limit controls.

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Annex E Applicable standards

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List of standards

The followingis a partial listof standards (by general number) for equipment from which voltage ratings and other characteristics can obtained. be

Equipment
Air-conditioning refrigerating equipment nameplate voltages and Air Ammonia compressorsand compressor units Application, installation, and servicing of unitary systems Automatic commercial ice makers Cable terminating devices (power) Central forced-air electric heating equipment Central-station air-handling units Connectors for electric utility applications Definite purpose magnetic contactors Dehumidifiers Electrical measuring instruments Electrical power insulators Electricity metering Forced circulation, free-delivery coolers forrefrigeration air Gas-fired furnaces Industrial control apparatus Insulated conductors

Standard*
AR1 110 AR1 680 AR1 51O AR1 260 AR1 81O IEEE 48 AR1 280 AR1 430 ANSI C l 19. 1 AR1 780 ANSUAHAM DH-1 ANSI C39 Series ANSI C29 Series ANSI C12 Series AR1 420 ANSI 221 Series ANSVNEMA ICs Series ANSIMFPA 70 AElC Series ICEA Series

Lamps Bactericidal lamps Electrical discharge lamp Incandescent lamps Lamp ballasts Low-voltage fuses Low-voltage molded-case circuit breakers Mechanical transport refrigeration units Oil-fired furnaces Packaged terminal air conditioners Positive displacement refrigerant compressor condensing units and Power switchgear Automatic circuit reclosers Automatic line sectionalizers Capacitor switches Distribution current-limiting fuses Distribution cutout and fuse links Distribution enclosed single-pale air switches Distribution oil cutouts and fuse links Fused disconnecting switches High-voltage air switches Manual and automatic station control Power circuit breakers Power fuses Relays andrelay systems Secondary fuses Supervisory and associated telemetering equipment Switchgearassembliesincludingmetalenclosedbus qeciprocating water-chilling packages qecreational vehicle air-conditioning equipment 3emote mechanical draft air-cooled refrigerant condensers ?oom air conditioners

ANSI C78 Series

ANSI C82 Series ANSVNEMA FU 1 NEMA AB 1 AR1 1110 CS 195 AR1 31 O ANSVARI 520

ANSI C37 Series

ANSVARI 590 AR1 250 AR1 460 ANSVAHAM RAC-1 table continued on next page

'See list of organizationsin Section E2.

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Eauipment
Room fan-coil air conditioners Rotating electrical machinery AC induction motors Cylindrical rotor synchronous generators Salient pole synchronous generator and condensers Synchronous motors Universal motors Self-contained humidifiers Self-contained mechanically refrigerated drinking-water coolers Shunt power capacitors Solenoid valves for liquid and gaseous flow Static power conversion equipment Surge arresters Transformers, regulators, and reactors Arc fumace transformers Constant-current transfomers Current-limiting reactors Distribution transformers, conventional subway-type Dry type Instrumenttransformers Power transformers Rectifier transformers Secondary network transformers Specialty Step-voltage and induction-voltage regulators Three-phase load-tapchanging transformers Unit ventilators Unitary air-conditioning equipment Commercial air-conditioning and industrial unitary equipment Unitary Wiring 'See list of organizations in Section E2.

Standard*
AR1 441

ANSI C50 Series and NEMA MG 1 ANSVARI 620 ANSVARI 1010 ANSVIEEE 18 AR1 760 ANSI C34 ANSI C62.61 & NEMA LA 1

ANSI C57 Series ANSVNEMA ST 20

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AR1 330 AR1 21O ANSVARI 360 AR1 240 C73 Series

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Organizations Referred to in Section E.l

AElC Association of Edison Illuminating Companies P.O. Box 2641 Birmingham, AL 35291 -0992 Association of Home ApplianceManufacturers 20 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 Air Movement and Control Association 30 West University Drive Arlington Heights, IL.60004 American National Standards Institute, Inc 11 West 42nd Street, 13th Floor New York, N.Y. 10036 Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute 4301 N. Fairfax Drive; Suite425 Arlington, VA 22203 Commercial Standards Office of Commodity Standards National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001 Hydronics Institute 35 Russo Place, P.O. Box 218 Berkeley Heights,NJ 07922 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08855 Insulated Cable Engineers Association Box P South Yarmouth, MA 02664 National Electrical Manufacturers Association 1300 North 17th Street; Suite 1847 Rosslyn, VA 22209

AHAM

AMCA

ANSI

AR1

CS

IBR

IEEE

ICEA

NEMA

Institute of Boiler andRadiator Manufacturers.

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