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Thank you so much for offering your help. However, I was able to get in touch with the person who is reviewing my application and discuss the reason for the delay.

Just wanted to provide a little update: I called the board to get the update on 6/10 and was told that the person reviewing my application is on vacation. I was advised to call back in a week, a week, and a half. I followed up with the phone call on 6/21 and was told that my application hasn't...

I'm debating if I should reach out to the Board too. Mailed to Board: 02/17/2021 Delivery confirmation: 02/19/2021 Check cashed: 4/9/21 Received DCA email stating we received your application and it has been referred to technical review: 4/14/2021

I am preparing my PE application (CA) and I am listing all PEs that I worked with. I also included my previous boss but did not include his letter of recommendation (LOR) in my application. The only reason I am listing him is to show that I have over 2 years of experience. I do not have full 2...

You are correct, you will only use 1 table only. So for the example above 4160V/480V transformer you would use 430.3.A.  just like you stated in your first response.   I apologize for the confusion. 

Thanks for the info. Just want to make sure

Random question for those of you who took the exam. Can you still take unscheduled bathroom or water breaks? idk if anything change bc of COVID 

Can someone please explain when do use any of the GMR formulas listed below? All of the problem that I solved involving GMR in the equitation (typically looking for  capacitive reactance or inductive reactance) do not use any of the formulas for GMR listed below. Typically, they use r'. I...

I feel like you are making in more complicated than it is. Two important things to notice here are: 1) Question is asking for line voltage and you solving for line to neutral. 2) All the currents are same in the circuit (I0 = I1 = I2 = Ia1) therefore you can simply combine all of the...

I was actually curious about effect of load on synchronous machine couple weeks ago. One thing that I remember is that armature current increases as load increases, current will become less leading  and more lagging as the load increases.

I would suggest to use actual code not the handbook as handbook will not be available on the test

@Zach Stone, P.E. thank you so much for taking time to respond it is much appreciated. I am glad to hear that the exam is structured that way because it took me whole 8 hours to go through each problem.  I also found your exam to be the most helpful as it covers a lot of details. I went...

Portable cord is just a part of the answer. If you read the whole answer it says GFCI receptacle first.

I think overall exam is very good, it makes you go a couple steps further then actually needed for the actual exam. But I think it's good since you get a lot more practice. Regrading question 6: I want to say that the graph will vary from manufacturer to manufacture but the overall principal...

My problem was that I ignored zone 2 and how that will effect the base values. Thanks for the help @akyip.

Why wouldn't you use 13.8kV as Vbase for the Generator?

So we cannot use Zpu new=Zp old * (Snew/Sold) because of zone 2? On the other hand I also tough of converting pu to actual value of the generator and then back to pu using Zbase at the T2 but that did not work either.

I see, thank you for the info. I do not understand question 32 when it asks to calculate the percent impedance of the generator. I do not get why are we to use 15kV as a new Vbase.

I was wondering if anyone went trough this exam and found any errors. There are few answers that simply do not make sense. Also, am I the only one who feels that the exam was written with a "gotcha" intent? For the reference I was working with version 1.0.5

In real life, at that point I would go for 10 min. reading which will give us polarization index. If I recall correctly from a top of my head for PI: Reading of less than 1 will be consider dangerous; 1 to 2 will be questionable, 2 to 4 - good and above 4 excellent. Here is a good guide by...