Simulator 16 User Guide - PowerWorld

Equipment Mover
Simulator provides a convenient tool for transferring equipment between buses. Simulator allows you
to move bus shunts, loads, generators, switched shunts, and transmission lines between buses. For
loads, generators, and both varieties of shunts, Simulator offers you the ability to transfer all or part of
the equipment from the origin bus to the destination bus.
Equipment may be transferred between buses using the Equipment Mover Dialog. The Equipment
Mover Dialog can be opened in any of four ways:
Go to the Tools ribbon tab and choose Modify Case < Move Bus Equipment... from the Edit
Mode ribbon group.
On the oneline display right-click on the bus from which you want to move equipment and select
Move Equipment… from the resulting local menu.
From a Bus Case Information Display, right-click on the record corresponding to the bus from
which you want to move equipment and select Move Equipment … from the resulting local
menu.
As the final step of the Split Bus operation.
Regardless of the approach you take, Simulator will then open the Equipment Mover Dialog. The
Equipment Mover Dialog consists of three sections. The top portion of the dialog is split in two sections
that identify the bus from which equipment will be transferred (on the left) and the bus equipment will
be transferred to (on the right). If the dialog was opened as the final operation of the Split Bus
operation, these two buses will be hard-coded to identify the original bus and the bus resulting from
the split. If the dialog was opened from the main menu, you must select both the origin and
destination buses from lists that are reminiscent of case information displays. If the dialog was opened
using one of the other two methods, the origin bus will be set to the bus you selected, and you will
then have to choose the destination bus. To select a bus to be an origin or destination bus, simply
select the corresponding record from the appropriate list.
Once the origin and destination buses have been identified, you must then select the equipment to
transfer from the origin to the destination bus using the case information display that occupies the
bottom of the dialog. To move a particular piece of equipment, toggle the value of the Move Object?
field to YES. To move just portions of loads, generators, or shunts from the origin to the destination
bus, adjust the value of the Move % field from 100.0 to the percentage you desire.
Once you have selected the equipment you wish to transfer, click the Move equipment button.
Simulator will adjust the power system model to reflect your equipment transfer requests.
Furthermore, Simulator will provide you an opportunity to manually adjust all open oneline diagrams to
reflect the equipment transfers. To facilitate this activity, Simulator will open a Potential Misplacements
Dialog for each oneline that displays the origin bus. The Potential Misplacements Dialog lists the
display objects associated with the equipment that had just been transferred from the origin to the
destination bus. By clicking on an entry in this list, you can pan the associated oneline diagram to
focus on that object. This allows you to identify display objects that perhaps should be relocated to
reflect their new bus associations. Once you have finished addressing these potentially misplaced
display objects, click the OK button to close the Potential Misplacements Dialog.
If you find that you would like to reopen the Potential Misplacements Dialog after you have closed it,
click the List most recent transfers button. This will reopen the Potential Misplacements Dialog
associated with the most recent equipment transfer operation.
To conclude the equipment transfer operation, click the Close button.
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