r dap introduction
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Introduction to RDAP
Getting Started
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Opening RDAP will give you this window. For the first
time user you must create a system. Click on
File/System Selection
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This window appears. Under Select System, type in
First System. Hit enter
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Click Yes to save the system created
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Since this is the first system, the only answer you can give
is No. In the future as you create new systems you
probably will want to answer Yes.
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On the new window, click File/Sub/Feeder Selection.
Hit enter
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Type in the name First under Substation and hit enter.
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Click on Yes
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Type in 12.47 under Feeder Bus. That is all that you
need to do at this point. Click on Okay
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Type in Feeder 1 under Feeder. Hit enter and answer
Yes to the question.
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Type in F1 in the blank. Be careful that you dont put
any spaces in the name. Click Okay
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You should now have this window showing that you have
created First System with Substation First and
Feeder 1. Now click on Z-Models
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Listed here are the basic data that will be input for a
given feeder. Conductors lists all of the standard
conductors. At this point click on Spacings
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The upper window shows the spacings that have been
created. At this point there arent any. Hit enter to drop
down to the lower window.
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Type in the Description, select Feet and then type in the
x,y coordinates for the four positions as shown. Hit Okay.
Note that you could enter more data. Hit Quit and
answer Yes.
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Click on Z-Models/Configurations to get this screen.
As before the left window shows configurations that have
been built. At this point there arent any. Hit enter to
move to the right side (input) window.
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Type in the Description, hit enter and then the down
arrow to scroll through the conductors. Stop on 450,000
AA and hit enter to move to the Neutral Conductor
selection.
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Continue entering the data using the pop up windows to
select Spacing in Feet and Phasing. Set the Distance
from Grd to 0. Hit Okay. More data could be entered,
but hit Quit and then Yes.
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From the main screen click on Z-Models/Configurations.
The window appears and now click on View Zs to see
the computed phase and admittance matrices for this
configuration.
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Get back to the main window by hitting Okay,Quit
and Yes. You are now ready to enter data for your
Feeder 1. Select Data/Segments
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This window displays the data window on the left and the
input window on the right. Hit enter to get to the data
input window.
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Enter the data for the 6000 ft. segment. I usually select
the Node B name as the Segment name. From the pop
up menu select DEMO. Hit Quit and answer Yes
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Select Spot Loads to bring up the data window for the
spot loads.
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As before the left window shows the nodes that have been
created. Select F2 and hit enter. Now input the necessary
data. Hit Quit and Yes.
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Your feeder can now be analyzed selecting
Analysis/Interactive Flow Analysis
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This is the menu for the analysis routines. Select
Results to run the analysis.
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Right away the pop up menu shown will appear. This
lists the various outputs that you can look at. Look at
each one of them.
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Summary
Click on the three horizontal lines on the top left to get
back to the menu. Note the top right of the screen is
WRITE. Click on that and this window will be writtento rdap.txt in the RDAP30 subdirector.
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Node Voltages on 120 volt base
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Dont look at voltage profile yet. Select power flow. A
new pop-ups shows the nodes in the feeder. Select all and
then toggle to get flow in Amps/Degs.
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Continue to look at the various outputs. To get back to
the data preparation menu hit File/Return
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