MARK VI voltage hai in our plant mark vi voltage is getting reduced to +42,-87 vdc we dont know where is the

problem can anyone please tell me some trouble shooting methods. 5 days ago Like CommentFollow Flag More 10 comments

Follow Sandip Sandip Pandya Where did you measure? Was it at the control panel end?The negative value shows that the supply side is grounded. 4 days ago Like

Follow Vijay Vijay Raj s we have measured at panel end.then we have now checked every were but in afternoon it is getting reduced...morning again it is increasing.....but our JBs and instruments are fully covered.... 4 days ago Like

Follow Dennis Dennis Fairchild Have you checked to see what the VCMI card in the R-rack says your DC voltage is at P125_Gnd & N125_Gnd? Should be 63 to 65 volts on the positive and negative. If it is the same as you've measured it sounds like you have a ground. There are a few things to try. But there isn't an easy way to find it besides going through the racks. You can swap fans and pumps to see if the voltage changes. This might show a ground on the associated pressure switch. Otherwise you need to pull the Terminal board (T-board) connectors and see when the ground goes away. We have done it online by forcing all the points, but I would only do it as a last resort, it can cause problems depending on your system configuration. Have a co-worker look at the VCMI R-rack voltage reading. Start in the High Voltage (125VDC) panel side of the MK6 cabinet. Begin pulling the T-board connector, one at a time. It only takes a second to loosen the two screws and lift the wire terminal strip. Keep stepping through the T-boards terminal until your DC voltage returns to normal. Once you find the the T-board terminal strip that effects your voltage begin lifting each wire from that terminal strip. Once you find which wire you will have to check the field device and associated wiring for your issue. It can be a long process, but it should work to find your voltage problem. Best of Luck!!

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Follow Sandip Sandip Pandya You must get the low batter voltage alarm in the Mark VI panel.How far is your battery room from the Mark VI panel? You may also need to check the supply side from cables and trays/conduits if the supply in between is grounded . 3 days ago Like

Follow Vijay Vijay Raj no we didnt get low voltage alarm sir, we also checked in supply side but no use......today it has been reduced to +60,-69.our plant is running so we cant able to rack out the t connectors sir.we planned for shut down in Nov 1st week.can u please tell me some steps to troubleshoot and also tell me if the + voltage becomes 0 what will be happen.any trips are assigned. 2 days ago Like

Follow Jean-Baptiste Jean-Baptiste Bergugnat Dennis Fairchild's method above is THE ONE, and his advices are excellent. These are basically the steps I used to follow when commissioning a Mark VI panel on GE gas turbines. Just one thing during the outage: you may want to get sure that all you MCC breakers are in manual and not automatic, as removing terminal boards will probably trigger some unexpected fans / pumps start up for those which are "fail start". 2 days ago Like

Follow Wisam Wisam Mohammed Dear Raj, Almost the cause of this problem comes from TBCI cards there fore unbluged one by one and check the voltage then when you find the foulty card disconnect all the wires then back it one by one to see which one has the problem and good luck. 2 days ago Like

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Vijay Raj hmmmmm thanks to all waiting for shutdown......ill try these and convey my exp o tat.... 2 days ago Like

Follow Pete Pete Margliotti Hello Vijay, Dennis is correct when he says to isolate the cards however, we do this at the PDM. Our T-boards are daisy-chained in groups, so this lets us find the ground more quickly Also if you have a VPRO option in your MKVI, I would highly recommend that you check this also. We have found this issue many times and if we pull the plugs on the VPRO cards it clears, then when we reconnect, it doesn't come back right away. Don't know why it does this, but it has happened at least 3 times I can remember. Also, I would definitely wait until I was shutdown to do this. As long as it is not a hard ground (120 on one side and 0 on the other) I would not jeopardize a dispatch or a machine. Also, you can use the signal from the "R" core, put it into the EGD and then disp[lay it on a screen. We did this and really love having a method to quickly monitor the status of the VDC in the MK VI. 1 day ago Like

Follow Sandip Sandip Pandya Earlier I got the impression that you measured manually with the clamp-on meter at the incoming feeder to the panel. Because you do not get any indication on the panel of low voltage, I believe that the reading you were getting on the panel was not pertaining to at the panelend.

Room Temperature can also affect the terminal voltage to certain extent.

When did you last conduct the preventive maintenance on the batteries?

Make sure your critical DC power 's standby auxiliary ,such as AOP is available and not under maintenance.This will help the lube system. Can you run EOP to check if it operates with the unit online? It should not trip the unit so long as MOP/ AOP is available .See if you have any indication on main and booster charger panels when they come online and how long main charge remains on when the EOP is running.