Introduction to RDAP

Getting Started

Opening RDAP will give you this window. For the first time user you must create a system. Click on File/System Selection

This window appears. Under Select System, type in First System. Hit enter

Click Yes to save the system created

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.

On the new window, click File/Sub/Feeder Selection. Hit enter

Type in the name First under Substation and hit enter.

Click on Yes

Type in 12.47 under Feeder Bus. That is all that you need to do at this point. Click on Okay

Type in Feeder 1 under Feeder. Hit enter and answer Yes to the question.

Type in F1 in the blank. Be careful that you dont put any spaces in the name. Click Okay

You should now have this window showing that you have created First System with Substation First and Feeder 1. Now click on Z-Models

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Select Spot Loads to bring up the data window for the spot loads.

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.

Your feeder can now be analyzed selecting Analysis/Interactive Flow Analysis

This is the menu for the analysis routines. Select Results to run the analysis.

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.

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 written to rdap.txt in the RDAP30 subdirector.

Node Voltages on 120 volt base

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.

Continue to look at the various outputs. To get back to the data preparation menu hit File/Return