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About Jignesh.Parmar
Jignesh Parmar has completed M.Tech (Power System Control), B.E(Electrical). He is member of May 2012 (7)
Institution of Engineers (MIE) and CEng,India. Membership No:M-1473586.He has more than 16 April 2012 (2)
years experience in Transmission -Distribution-Electrical Energy theft detection-Electrical
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Maintenance-Electrical Projects (Planning-Designing-Technical Review-coordination -Execution). He is Presently
associate with one of the leading business group as a Deputy Manager at Ahmedabad,India. He has published February 2012 (2)
numbers of Technical Articles in “Electrical Mirror”, “Electrical India”, “Lighting India”,”Smart Energy”, “Industrial January 2012 (1)
Electrix”(Australian Power Publications) Magazines. He is Freelancer Programmer of Advance Excel and design
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useful Excel base Electrical Programs as per IS, NEC, IEC,IEEE codes. He is Technical Blogger and Familiar with
English, Hindi, Gujarati, French languages. He wants to Share his experience & Knowledge and help technical November 2011 (2)
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siva muthusamy says: May 2011 (3)

September 6, 2013 at 8:15 am
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Dear sir/madam l had received electrical thump rules 4,5,6. so i want electrical thump rules 1,2,3. so plase kindly March 2011 (17)
send me. thankyou M.SIVA

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Jignesh.Parmar says:
September 6, 2013 at 2:23 pm

Is is already given in the Blog !!!!

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Alex says:
September 10, 2013 at 11:21 am

Thank you for the valuable notes.

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Amit Khari says:

September 10, 2013 at 7:41 pm

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Thanks for valuable info.Kindly send me SLD of PCC in LT panel……. Abstract

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September 12, 2013 at 9:45 am IS 1255

Sir .. Thank u for the Valuable information.. Can u pls upload details of Panel fabrication. IS 15652/11171/1445/1678

IS 3043 / 5039
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pradeep kumar says:

July 19, 2017 at 10:43 am

Dear Sir,

how we calculate earthing strip size and wire size for ESD (electrostatic discharge) and EPA (earth protection
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nagendra says:
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in two same capacity dg synchronization, what should be the rating of between 2 dg bus coupler,.
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contactor voltage is ac or dc in contactor coil section as you indicated suffix

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