Recent content by Kias

No, the whole circuit was designed to handle a 600 amp load, with a 2000 amp peak. The only problem was the wires connecting the filter caps to the rectifier bus bars were overheating. A new unit came off the line today and they rolled it over for me to test. These wires are overheating...

Ok, wait... I think I see what you're asking. The wires to the capacitors do not carry the load. The load is taken from two bus bars on the rectifier on 1/0 cables. The caps are wired to the bus bar with 6 gauge wires.

Without a load, the wires are fine, and there's no detectable current in the wire with the clamp meter. I also noticed the capacitors are not even getting warm with a full 2000 amp load. Yet another reason I think there's nothing wrong with the caps. All 8 caps were replaced before we even...

First post here. Found this place while looking for a solution to my problem. My background is Navy trained electronic tech. (FC to be precise) So an engineer I'm not, but I do fix the stuff. Anyway, at work, I have a 3 phase full wave rectifier with a capacitor ripple filter. Here's a...