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POWER TRANSFORMER ERECTION AND

ASSEMBLING
 FIRST STEP(Installation)
✔ Rigging study
✔ In rigging study, there is lift plan ,access, route and crane
specifications
✔ Civil foundation inspection
✔ Insulation fiber plates if provided must be placed on the
foundations
✔ Transformer unloading is a critical activity

 SECOND STEP(Tools required)

✔ Crane(10-15 tons)
✔ Lifter
✔ Drums for oil storage from bushing sockets
✔ Rope for conductor pulling(10 meters)
✔ Spanners(6mm-30mm)
✔ Ratchet sets(6mm-30mm)
✔ Open end spanners(6mm-30mm)
✔ Separate tool box
✔ Cotton waste(20 kgs)
✔ Slings
✔ Shackles

 THIRD STEP(Material shifting)

✔ One day is required to shift the material to the site
✔ Next is to open the wooden cases
 MANPOWER REQUIREMENT
✔ Technician(1)
✔ Fitter(2)
✔ Riggers(4)
✔ Crane operator
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✔ Lifter operator
✔ Scaffolder(2)
ASSEMBLING PROCEDURE
✔ Its better to start with oil conservator.
First assemble conservator brackets
and then put the conservator tank over
the brackets(6 hours)
✔ Remove the plates from butterfly valves
and clean it with alcohol
✔ Move the radiators turn by turn with
help of crane and fix with the
flanges(one day activity)
✔ Assemble the motor fans(1 day)
✔ Remove the oil from sockets for HV
bushings
✔ Place sockets over the flanges for HV
bushings
✔ Bring out the conductors from
transformer body, run a rope through
insulator and fix the bolt on the end of
rope to conductor. Fix the bushings(one
day activity)
✔ On LV side there is no conductor to run
through the insulator
✔ Because on LV side conductor size is
large so its connections will be made by
opening a plate on side of main body.(5
hours)
✔ Two pressure relief devices on top of
body will be fixed(2 hours)
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✔ Buchholz relay from conservator to

main body(3 hours)
✔ OLTC protection relay(3 hours)
✔ Motor drive mechanism for OLTC(5
hours)
✔ Pipe connections(1 day)
✔ Rating plate, oil temperature indicators
for main body and conservator and
winding temperature indicator(4 hours)
✔ Terminal and control box(4 hours)
✔ Lay the control cables(1 day)
✔ Prepare cables for maggaring(6 hours)
✔ Meggar control cables(1 day)
✔ Apply the test voltage e.g. 500 volts
and measure the core to earth plus
other cores resistance(1 day)
✔ Terminate the control cables(2 days)