Schneider Electric GIS Tech Support

Is anyone using the phase orientation field on primary conductors? If so, how do you decifer the field?

For example, if the value is ABC, how do you know if that means the A phase is on the west side or the east? Or the north or south for that matter. Do you use an additional character?

Duane,

We do use the Phase Orientation on our OH Primary Conductors.

We created a PhasingMarker feature that is related to our OH Primary Conductor. The Phasing Marker displays the Phase Orientation and the Feeder ID separated by a line which is snapped to the OH Primary conductor feature.

[u]Example[/u]:

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ACB |
____ |
2004|
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The Phasing Marker can be read from any direction.

We use Labels for display. Here is our label expression. The CircuitLocation field indicated if the conductor is the Upper (UP), Middle (MID), or Lower (LO) position on the pole. This field is only used if there are multiple curcuits on a specific pole.

I hope this helps you out.

George

[ORIENTATION] & vbNewLine & [FEEDERID] & " " & [CIRCUITLOCATION]

Duane:

We have a custom Phase Orientation tool. The Phase shows up as a tooltip on our desktops and field units.

I'll send an email of the image.

Ian

I have located this thread a little late. We created a tool (a Field Editor) which creates the phase orientation for OH primary conductors. The direction is specified by user and the tool enforce the rules . Users are not able to create a wrong direction like NE, SW, or NN by mistake.

Examples:
NABCS Three phase
WABCE Three phase
W-B-E one phase
W--CE one phase
N-BCS two phase
NAB-S two phase