The 5th edition of the “Power Engineering Guide” by Siemens is now available online. This fundamentally revised and updated new edition of ‘PEG’ is a manual for everyone who is involved in generation, transmission and distribution – from system planning, to implementation and control. The guide is a very useful reference document designed to assist engineers, technicians, planners and advisors. Its content also supports continuing education in technical fields.

The guide is organised by product and function, and covers the entire portfolio of Siemens products for the transmission and distribution of electricity –including high, medium and low voltage, switching substations and transformers and switchgear. It also covers solutions in the areas of protection systems, automation, energy management and network communications, as well as service and support.

Download the “Power Engineering Guide” (25 Mb)

The series of seminars in October presented by Siemens distance protection product specialist Gustav Steynberg were very well received. His presentations along with related technical information on CD-ROM have now been distributed to the companies of those who attended.

If you could not attend, but would like a copy of the presentation materials, then contact us.

Due to demand, HV Power now have two PQ-Box 100 Power Quality Analysers available for hire. The PQ-Box’s are available on daily, weekly or longer basis. As the PC analysis software is freely available, you can continue to view and work with your data after completion of the hire period. The staff at HV Power will also assist with instrument set up to get you up and running quickly.

Contact our Services Manager Vladimir Brijacek (vladimirb@hvpower.co.nz).

Our thanks go out to all who participated in the HV Power Customer Survey. It’s rewarding to receive such positive feedback, and important for us to know what areas need improving. We’ll be implementing some of your suggestions in the weeks ahead.

The three prize winners have been notified. Congratulations to them, and better luck to the others next time.

The GarrettCom DX40 serial device router was featured in our August 2008 newsletter. While typical applications for serial device routers require the PC to operate redirection software, for DNPi or ModbusTCP, this is not required.

RTU and other devices that support DNPi (or Modbus TCP) can talk seamlessly via the RS232/485 ports to TCP device/RTU without redirection software.

As the DX40 provides multiple functions, HV Power have documented the steps to get your DNP3.0 to DNPi application up and running fast. The DX40 also features built-in routing for increased security. Contact us for details.

The first issue of “PQ-Box 100 Hints and Tips”, a four page HV Power authored document has been distributed to those customers who have purchased PQ-Box 100 Power Analysers. However, as these units are also in use by contractors and consultants to some of these customers, please contact us if you would like to personally receive a copy.

Our May and June newsletters introduced the new Siemens multifunction protection relay, targeted for feeder protection. Now available on the SIPROTEC web site is the detailed user manual for this new cost-effective relay. Click here for 7SJ80 pdf user manual (12.6 MB)

With over 1000 pages of product and application information, the new 2008 SIPROTEC catalog has been available since July via PDF download (31 MB). HV Power now have additional stocks of CD-ROM and hardcopies. Contact us for copies.