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    IA RESULTS

    Does anyone have a good feel for when the license search website will be updated?
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    difference between FE online practice exam and sample questions and solutions book

    Are the questions in the FE online practice exams (http://www.ncees.org/Exams/Study_materials...actice_exam.php) different from the question in the FE sample questions and solutions books (http://www.ncees.org//Exams/Study_materials.php?exam=FE)?
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    *OFFICIAL OCT 2010 RESULT DATE THREAD*

    Alaska, 12/29/10, Email Arkansas, 12/29/10, State Board Website Arizona, 12/29/10, NCEES Website Colorado 12/29/10 NCEES Website Connecticut 12/29/10 NCEES Website Florida -- 12.29.10 --NCEES Website Idaho, 12/29/10, IPELS website roster search Illinois, website Indiana, 12/29/10, NCEES...
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    Post October 2010 Diagnostic Report scores here if you failed

    Do you mean 68% or 68/80? 68/80 seems rather high for a failing score.
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    NCEES #532

    I read this article a little bit and I think I get it now. There is a tap setting for the current transformer itself and there is also a tap setting for the relay coil. NCEES is asking for the tap setting on the relay coil.
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    NCEES #532

    Did they use that term correctly? Now that I think about it, it makes more sense if it means what "tap" you connected the cables to, like cableguy's example of multiple taps on the high side of a current transformer. I think the problem should ask for the "activation point setting" since we...
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    Bringing IEEE Books with??

    I talked to a couple people about this and they both did not recommend bringing any IEEE books with them to the Power exam. I just printed out that page 97 from the red book in case I get confused about the voltage drop with low power factor equation again.
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    NCEES #513

    Is the per unit voltage base always phase voltage? That's the only way your equation (1 pu volt)/(j.7975+j.075) = 1.146 per unit amps could work.
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    NCEES #532

    I don't have the problem in front of me right this minute, but I recall the problem stating "the tap setting is 5 A", then it goes on to ask you what it is. I think what it means the first time by "tap setting" is where you connect the ammeter wires to the secondary winding. So by saying that...
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    NCEES #513

    I believe the solution to 513 is dividing volts per unit by ohms per unit to get amps per unit. It then multiplies by 4811 amps to convert per unit amps to actual amps. The solution is confusing because it omits volts per unit. It can do this because volts per unit is 1. However, this means that...
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    NCEES #513

    This might sound crazy this close to the exam, but I would forget about per unit and learn how to use the MVA method linked in the following thread: MVA method I can't answer your question because I don't even know how to use per unit. I don't know if this is going to bite me in the exam, but...
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    NCEES 531

    500 kV is the line voltage; you need to use the voltage drop across the reactance, which is phasor Va minus phasor Vb. A couple people here mentioned that above 90 degrees between Va and Vb, the system goes unstable. How does the system go unstable?
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    Rectifier circuit average value calculations

    I see, you just have to make sure you set "0" at the beginning of a pulse for your equation to work.
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    Rectifier circuit average value calculations

    Given Kaplan's reputation at this point, it would be easy to write Kaplan's equations off as errors. Also, your equation only works if the waveform is a sine function. For example, it wouldn't work if the function was cosine.
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    NCEES #129

    knight1fox3's solution is correct. You mentioned you have the IEEE books in another post. Check the IEEE red book page 97. That phasor diagram was the only way I could understand that equation, even after reading many posts on this forum trying to explain it.
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    NEC Help

    Article 210.19 talks about making conductor ampacities 125% for continuous load branch circuits. 215.2 talks about the same but for feeders. Overcurrent devices would have to be sized per the actual conductor ampacity per Article 240.
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    NCEES #135

    I have another problem with this problem. Is it really possible to close the turbine governor fast enough to keep the current stable during the transient event? I would expect the current to spike and come down before governor could react. I think a more reasonable question would ask what the...
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    NCEES #135

    The problem also gives a Xq parameter in addition to the others. I know it is extra unneeded information in this problem, but if it was needed I wouldn't know what to do with it. I think it means "quadrature axis synchronous reactance" and has something to do with the small amount of flux...
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    Transformers & NEC

    I know this isn't going to be on the exam, but I am still wondering about this. Any ideas on why wye-delta and wye-wye transformers are not excluded from article 240.4(F) along with delta-delta?
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    NCEES Power #129

    My opinion on this problem is that the solutions given in the NCEES sample exam are both approximations, and the only way to get the exact answer is to use the long equation posted by dzdave00 above. The first solution given in the sample exam does not take into account the angle between the...
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