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Just to complete the review...I work in a field where I use NFPA Standards every day, so while I brought every NFPA Standard I use on a daily basis with me to the exam, I only used the NEC and NESC for the exam. 

Hang in there, Fudge, you can do it. Do you work in a field where you work with three-phase power or use codes and standards?

I got notice that I passed the FE on August 19, 2016 and immediately went online and bought all of the study material I used for the PE, which includes CI, Lanza, PPI, Graffeo, and NCEES Practice Exam. I had decided that I would start "seriously" studying after the Thanksgiving holiday. As the...

It was easy... Beginning at 7 PM on April 21, I checked the NCEES website every hour on the hour...

NCEES's website is posting results.

I passed!

Recommend the Electrical Engineer's Portable Handbook.  http://tinyurl.com/mxt22jl

I expect results will be posted this week. Good luck, everyone!

He also confirmed that he was exempt from the 30 PDH requirement for 2016 (the year he passed), but he does have to report 30 PDHs this year and then punctuated this summary with, "but you won't have to worry about it anyway." Thoroughly deflated, I asked if he had to apply for licensure after...

Yup - can you see through the problem well enough to think your way around it? If I don't pass this time around, I'll for damned sure know how to pass the next time around in October. That's about as far as I feel comfortable confirming.

So, I talked to him and I was way off - first, he took his PE Exam April 2016, not October. Second, he told me I should not consider him my friend. He said he took his test April 15 and got his results May 19, to which I responded, "Hey, not-my-friend, that sounds like you got your results...

Yeah, I think it depends on how you interpret the question IMO. I completely missed, ignored, or otherwise overlooked where the root cause of the confusion was when @rg1 posted this question, which I think could be summarized as, "The problem statement says it's a 3 phase rectifier, but only one...

@TNPE is correct, the Average Value formula I clipped from the internet did not include the 1/T term in the integral (it was included in the schedule I provided), and I erroneously stated that the integral was evaluated over 2pi, which is obviously wrong for the reason @TNPE stated for a sine...

Problem is there isn't a 460V column in the single-phase table...

I'm inclined to believe that the "500V" was fat-fingered and was meant to be "200V." If it was supposed to be 200V, you could solve that with the NEC. What's the solution given?

For some reason, the clipping didn't go through:

It should also be noted that the question states that rectification is accomplished with SCRs, not diodes. The symbol used in the schematic doesn't show the "gate" of the SCR for simplicity, which makes it look like a diode symbol. It's the gate that controls the firing angle of the SCR, so the...

It is a full-wave rectifier. On the positive half-cycle of the input wave, current flows through the top SCR while the bottom SCR is reverse-biased. On the negative half-cycle of the input wave, current flows through the bottom SCR while the top SCR is reversed-biased. A half-wave rectifier...

It might be that way in my State, but I'm not sure. A friend of mine earned his last October. I remember him refusing to put the "PE" after his name until it was official, but I'm not clear if he had to formally apply for his license, or if his application to sit for the PE sufficed.  I can...

I'm not sure if that note applies to *newly* licensed PEs, or not, but I think it would be a little unreasonable to expect that to happen, IMO. Even if you pass the PE Exam, don't you have to submit an application to be licensed? In other words, passing the PE Exam does not grant automatic...