The use of business machines in determining the distribution of load and reactive components in power line networks

THE ANALYZER BOARDS available at various points in the United States have afforded welcome relief from the tedious calculations which are ordinarily necessary in determining the distribution of load and reactive component in electric power networks. Since, however, they frequently are located inconveniently, power engineers still have to use longhand methods on their current problems and often have to content themselves with approximate methods, yielding less information than they would like to have. Help in the solution of these problems that arise between visits to the analyzer board can be had by making use of accounting machines of the IBM^∗ type, which usually are available to members of the light and power industry. These machines greatly expedite the calculations while retaining full accuracy of the classical method.