Electrical Calculation Software. PowerPac by Spearhead Software is the most widely used electrical cable calculation software in Australia for doing the complex.

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Save Hours And Hours Of Tedious Manual Calculations With PowerPacAn Indispensable Tool Ensuring Accurate Calculations From AS3000 and AS3008. PowerPac is Australia’s most popular Electrical Calculation Software program designed to assist the user of the Australian Standards AS/NZS 3008.1:2009 and AS/NZS 3000:2007.

It is designed to reflect the complex mathematical functions described in these Standards with the object of ensuring accuracy, consistency and reproducibility. PowerPac incorporates tables directly from AS/NZS 3008.1:2009 & AS/NZS3000:2007 under license from Standards Australia. Calculations Performed:. Cable Sizing Calculations. Voltage Drop Calculations.

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Earth Fault Loop Calculations. Maximum Demand Calculations. Conduit Sizing Calculations Keeping up with the vast changes and requirements of these standards has made the job of electrical Contractors, designers and installers more frustrating than ever before.

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Now with three levels PowerPac raises the bar in electrical design software. PowerPac caters for the smallest of electrical contractors ( PowerPac Lte) just wanting to check a cable size, right through to the largest contractor and engineer looking for more detailed solutions ( PowerPac Pro).

PowerPac Lte is now available for $147 ex GST. Can you afford not to be using Australia’s most popular Electrical Calculation Software?

The final page is the calculation page. Cable sizes can be selected from 1.0mm2 to 630mm2. The app now covers the newer Flexible Copper cables in addition to standard Copper and Aluminium cables. Once again, these additions are due to requests from users, so please provide positive feedback and contact us if you have any ideas for changes.

The Current capacity is recalculated each time the cable size or conductor type is changed. Any '0' values indicate that AS3008 does not list values for that cable installed in the selected condition. In Ver 1.2 (due out end Sept 2013) the minimum earth cable size is given for each cable size. Derating Factors.

All white boxes can be changed from the default values by tapping on the box and editing the values. We have now included an auto calculator for the most common derating factors. (Version 1.2 due out end Sept) or the value can be manually inserted.

If a derating factor is inserted then the current capacity is automatically adjusted accordingly. Voltage drop. All the values in the white boxes can be manually changed to suit the situation. The current in Amps is by default the same as the Current capacity, but can be changed to suit the actual maximum demand or circuit protection rating. In ver 1.2 (due out end Sept) these changed values can remain locked in.

This alows you to go back and change cable types and sizes to easily find the correct ones to suit your situation. Clicking the reset button will change the user entered vaues back to the default values. Voltage drop percent value changes to yellow at above 5% and to red above 10% to alert the user to high values.

The previously selected cable type and installation condition are listed at the top of the page so that a record can be kept by taking a screen shot of the device. Hint: To take a screen shot on the iPad or iPhone, push both the home (bottom) and sleep (top) button at the same time.

The app can be downloaded from the app store thru your iPhone or iPad - just search for CalcWiz. Notes on the cost of this app. This app was developed after numerous requests from our regular users of our PC software. I have agonised a lot over the pricing of this app as the development costs are quite substantial. Before starting the project I did a few sums and contacted some of our regular users as to what would be an acceptable price. Unfortunately I do not have the programming skills to develop on the apple platform so this had to be outsourced and with around 400 hours of development time.

Although the results seem quite simple, there is quite a bit of background data and graphics involved. Our aim was to make it as user friendly as possible. The app is of course suitable only for the Australian market and even then only suitable for electricians with an iPad or iPhone. In determining if you consider $30 for the app is a problem then please consider the following rather than comparing the price to other apps that depend on both ads and huge worldwide sales to generate returns.

Try the lite free version first. it is exactly the same format just not as many cable options. Ask yourself if it will save you that much on the job with time saved. If you have a problem with the app then please contact us first, and give us time to fix or explain. Good ratings in the app store help encourage both sales and development.