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Indian Standard
GUIDE FOR
IDENTIFICATION BY HOUR NUMBERS OF
THE PHASE CONDUCTORS OF
3-PHASE ELECTRIC SYSTEMS
Basic Electrotechnical

Standards

Sectional

Committee,

ETDC

Representing

Chairman
SHRI S. G. RAMAoHANDRA

Rotating Machinery Sectional Committee, ETDC 15,

IS1

Msmbns
SARI V. K. BATRA
SHRI V. S. BHATIA

National Physical Laboratory ( CSIR ), New Delhi

Low Voltage Switchgear & Controlgear Sectional
Committee, ETDC 57, IS1

SRRI M. SESHADRI ( AIfernalc )

SHRIA. DASCWPTA
Secondary Cells & Batteries Sectional Committee,
ETDC 11, IS1
SHRI B. MUEHOPADHYAY ( Alternate )
MAJ-GEN N. DAYAL
Institution of Engineers ( India ), Calcutta
DIREoTOR STANDARDS
Research,
Designs
and Standards Organization,
( ELEoTRICAL )
Lucknow
JOINT DIREcToR STANDARDS
( ELECTRICAL )/S (Alternate )
DIRECTOR ( TED )
Central Electricity Authority, New Delhi
DEPUTY DIRECTOR ( TED ) ( Alfernatc )
SRRI M. L. DONO~R-E
Power Cables Sectional Committee, ETDC 59, IS1
SHRI M. M. HONAVAR ( Alternate )
SHRI A. N. GHOSH
Electrical
Appliances
Sectional
Committee,
ETDC 43, IS1
SHRI R. D. JAIN
Conductors
and Accessories for Overhead
Lines
Sectional Committee, ETDC 60, IS1
SHRI K. C. KAUL
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, Bhopal
SHRI PRAKASH SINCW ( Alternate )
SHRI A. S. LAKSHYANAN
Solid
Electrical
Insulating
Materials
Sectional
Committee, ETDC 63, IS1
SHRI B.A. GOVINDARAJ
( Alternate)
SHRI KALYAN K. MONDAL
National
Electrical
Code
Sectional Committee,
ETDC 56, ISI
SHRI B. C. NAIR
Industrial
Process
Measurement
and
Control
Sectional Committee,
ETDC 67, IS1
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Representing

Members

Relay Sectional Committee, ETDC 35, IS1

SHRI N. NATI*
SI~RI B. S. SIIAI~MA ( Alternate )
High Voltage Switchgear and Controlgear Sectional
SHRI H. M. PAI
Committee, ETDC 58, IS1
SIIRI V. B. DESAI ( Alternate )
Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore
SHRI S. PARAMESWARAN
SHRI SUJATHA STJBEASH ( Alternate )
Electrical Wiring Accessories Sectional Committee,
SHRI D. N. PURANDARE
ETDC 44. IS1
SRRI S. JHAVERI ( Alternate )
Ministry of Defence ( DGI )
SHRI P. K. RAO
LT-COL AMARJIT SINGE ( Alternate )
Transformers Sectional Committee, ETDC 16, IS1
SHRI C. R. VARIER
SHRI M. L. MITTAL ( Alternate I )
SHRI V. B. BHATIA ( Alternate II )
Indian Electrical Manufacturers Association, Bombay
SHRI M. P. WAQH
SHRI J. V. VAIDYA ( Alternate )
Director General, IS1 ( Ex-oficio Member )
SRRI S. P. SACHDEV,
Director ( Elec tech ) ( Secretary )

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Indian Standard
GUIDE FOR
IDENTIFICATION BY HOUR NUMBERS OF
THE PHASE CONDUCTORS OF
3-PHASE ELECTRIC SYSTEMS

0.

FOREWORD

0.1This

Indian
Standard
was adopted
by the Indian
Standards
Institution
on 18 October
1985, after the draft finalized by the Basic
Electrotechnical
Standards
Sectional Committee
had been approved
by
the Electrotechnical
Division Council.

0.2 The object of this standard

is to provide
a uniform
means of
identification
of conductors
of 3-phase interconnected
systems by the
use of hour ( clock-face ) numbers,
taking as a basis, the phase sequence,
starting from an arbitrary
origin of their applied voltages.
0.3 The
standard

hour numbers
established
as per
are used in the following situations:

the guidelines

given

in this

a) To establish the possibility,

in a given station, of interconnecting
groups
of 3-phase
conductors
associated with networks already
connected
elsewhere;
b) To indicate clearly which conductors
within those groups must;
be connected together in order to effect the desired interconnection
and especially
during
system disturbances,
to
c) In operation,
facilitate
the recognition
and the utilisation of the indications
provided by the measuring
and protective
equipment
allocated
to the different phases.
0.4 The system of marking
with hour numbers takes into account the
shift in the phase-voltage
vectors due to interposed
power transformers
and determined
by the winding connection,
but it disregards any shift
resulting from the impedance
of the conductors
and of the transformer
windings which will vary with the length
and the connected
load, and
which plays no part in this system of conductor
indentification.
Thus,
the same number accompanies
a given conductor
along its whole length
and is subject to change only when the conductor system phases through
This change
in hour number
is constant for a given
a transformer.
transformer
and indicates
the change in position of the voltage vectors
introduced
by the transformers
at no load.
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1985

0.5 In the pre aration of this standard

considerable
assistance had been
derived from t E e IEC publication
152( 1963 ) Identification
by hour
numbers
of the phase conductors of 3-phase electric systems, issued by
the International
Electrotechnical
Commission
( IEC ).

1. SCOPE
1.1 This standard
covers recommendations
on identification
of phase
conductors of 3-phase systems by the use of hour ( clock-face ) numbers.
2. BASIS

OF THE NUMBERING

2.1 Each conductor

of the network
or group of networks
receives a
numerical
index and the number chosen applies to all conductors
of the
same phase.
Only conductors

of the same number

can be connected

together.

2.2 An angle of phase difference of 30 electrical degrees is taken as a unit

for the purposes of the marking,
this angle corresponding
to the actual
angle through which the hour hand of a clock travels in moving from
one hour to the next.
(This system is already in use for indicating
the
phase
shift introduced
by the winding
interconnections
in power
transformers
).
Twelve
hour
from Oto 11.

numbers

are possible,

from

1 to 12, or if necessary

NOTE Quite clearly it is equivalent to write O [ that is zero phase difference)

or 12 ( that is, 360 phase difference ). In general, it is immaterial
if one writes either
of these two numbers.
There are cases, however, where one of them is to be preferred,
For example,
the number
12 is necessary when the figure O or the letter O
have already been given another meaning, as neutrai conductoti
on the other hand,
the figure O may be considered
preferable
when this risk of ambigui ty does not
exist.
In the remainder of this text the notation 12 (0) is used.
Thus, the three conductors forming a 3-phase group have indices differing from
each other by four units ( equivalent
to 120 electrical
degrees ), for example
4-8-12(0) or 3-7-11.

2.3 The lagging

voltage
conductor
is indicated
by the Iarger hour
number; thus, the voItage of a conductor
numbered
8 attains its maximum
value
120 electrical
degrees
behind
that of the conductor
numbered
4.
2.4 The conductors connected to the terminals of the respective windings
of a power transformer,
which are characterized
by the same phase
letter must carry hour numbers which differ by an amount equal to the
hour number of the transformer.
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If the alphabetical
sequence of the phase letters of the high-voltage
terminals
is the same as the phase sequence ( that is, if the terminals
A,
B and C are connected to conductors
carrying numbers
increasing
by 4
and 4 ), the markings
of the lower voltage conductors
are obtained by
adding the hour number
of the transformer
connection
to the hour
numbers of the high-voltage
conductors.
Thus,
if the terminals
A, B and C of a star-delta
connected
transformer
with an hour number 11 are connected
respectively
to conductors
12( 0 )-4-8 on the high-voltage
side, the low-voltage coductors,
connected to a, b and c will carry the numbers
11-3-7 ( the addition
of
11 being equivalent
to subtracting
1 ).
Conversely,
if the alphabetical
sequence of the phase letters of the
high voltage
terminals
is opposite to the phase sequence ( that is if the
terminals A, B and C are connected respectively
to conductors
carrying
numbers decreasing by 4 and 4 ), the markings of the low-voltage
terminals are obtained
by subtracting
the hour number of the transformer
connection
from the hour numbers of the high-voltage
conductors.
Thus,
if the terminals
A, B and C of a star-delta
connected
transformer
with the hour number 11 are connected to conductors
12( O)8 and 4 on the high-voltage
side, the low-voltage
conductors,
connected
to the terminals a, b and c will carry the numbers l-9-5 ( the subtraction
of 11 being equivalent to the addition of 1 ).
These examples show that with a transformer
it would be the same with a transformer
is possible to connect a 4,8, 12( 0 ) system both
to a 3, 7, 11 system provided that in one of the
of the terminal in relation to the phase sequence

( and

with hour number

11
with hour number 1 ) it
to a 1, 5, 9 system and
two cases the sequence
is reversed.

2.5 The
coherence
of the hour numbers between all the interconnected
networks, or between those which are to be interconnected
in the future,
is assured by giving the hour number 12( 0 ) to one of the conductors of
all very-high-voltage
networks in which the windings are star-connected.
NOTE -

The latter assumption is based on the following considerations:

a) Generally, the windings of transformers connected to very-high-voltage

systems are star-connected, and, if in the future, still higher voltages

be used, the windings for those new voltages will also probably be
star-connected.
The direct couplings between all these systems are
made or will then be made without any phase shift and, consequently,
it is desirable to design them from the beginning with the same hour
numbers.
The hour numbers 4, 8, 12(O) have been chosen because
they have been used from the beginning for these very-high-voltage
systems in the countries which have already adopted identification by
means of hour numbers.

b) If an existing coupling between these very-high-voltage

systems has
been made through a lower voltage system, it is always possible in
practice to arrange a direct coupling that is one without phase shift,
between the high-voltage system.

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Hence, it is always possible in practice to use the hour numbers 4,
8, 12( 0 ) for the conductors of all very-high-voltages
networks of voltage
greater
than approximately
100 kV.
Naturally,
the choice of the conductor
12( 0 ) for one of the systems requires all the systems already
As to those which
interconnected
to be numbered
one after the other.
are not yet interconnected,
it will be necessary, as the need arises, to
interconnect
them by connecting
conductors
of the same hour number
together.
3. LOCATION

OF HOUR

NUMBERS

3.1 The hour numbers

are in general
not carried by the conductors
themselves, but are conveniently
placed in their neighbourhood.
3.2 It is also convenient
with the hour numbers

to mark the measuring

and
of the corresponding
phases.

protective

devices