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Synchroscope Training Tool

Synchroscope

Voltage Waveforms

Running (Bus)
Incoming (Gen)
0.0 Hz
0%
NOT IN SYNC - DO NOT CLOSE BREAKER

Controls

Running / Bus (Red)

Voltage 115 kV
Frequency 60.0 Hz

Incoming / Generator (Blue)

Voltage 115 kV
Frequency 60.0 Hz
Synchronizing Guidelines
Synchronizing Criteria (typical): ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Slip Frequency: < 0.067 Hz (4 seconds per revolution) • Phase Angle: Within ±10° of 0° (12 o'clock) • Voltage Difference: Within ±5% Synchroscope Operation: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Pointer at 12 o'clock = 0° phase difference (IN SYNC) • Clockwise rotation = Incoming FAST (higher frequency) • Counter-clockwise = Incoming SLOW (lower frequency) Best Practice: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Match voltages within 5% 2. Adjust incoming frequency to rotate slowly CLOCKWISE 3. Close breaker just BEFORE reaching 12 o'clock 4. This accounts for breaker closing time