Energy storage device causes high voltage cabinet to trip

What causes nuisance tripping in power systems?

There are several causes of nuisance tripping in power systems. A few are listed below: Nuisance tripping occurs when the leakage current exceeds the threshold value of current set for a GFI (Ground Fault Interrupter) breaker tripping.

What causes a breaker to tripping?

A few are listed below: Nuisance tripping occurs when the leakage current exceeds the threshold value of current set for a GFI (Ground Fault Interrupter) breaker tripping. This increase in current maybe result of current surges, voltage surges, possible noise in installation or electromagnetically induced current from nearby high voltage lines.

How do you prevent a circuit breaker from tripping?

Some ways to prevent nuisance trips of circuit breakers are: One of the ways to prevent nuisance tripping due to high ground fault leakage currents is to place your protective devices or GFI (Ground fault interrupters) breakers as close as possible to the equipment they protect.

What are the consequences of nuisance tripping of circuit breakers?

Following are the consequences of nuisance tripping of circuit breakers: Circuit breakers are usually connected across all three phases in a 3-phase AC system. So whenever, one phase trips due to overload, it can cause serious power imbalance. This can exacerbate a chain reaction causing cascaded tripping of circuit breakers in the system.

How to prevent nuisance tripping due to high ground fault leakage currents?

One of the ways to prevent nuisance tripping due to high ground fault leakage currents is to place your protective devices or GFI (Ground fault interrupters) breakers as close as possible to the equipment they protect. Excessive lengths of cables or cords can cause ground fault leakage currents to flow by capacitive and inductive coupling.

What is tripping a circuit breaker?

Nuisance tripping, also known as ‘sympathetic tripping’, is the unnecessary tripping of circuit breakers when a fault does not exist. This type of tripping is undesirable and detrimental to the power continuity. There are no electrically based reasons for such trips and the breaker is deemed to be not performing its designed function correctly.