Hi John:


>   >In the USA, this has largely been fixed by a change in
>   >the USA National Electrical Code.  
>   
>   There must be quite a number of installations that are not yet upgraded.

Where a problem existed, it was fixed by pulling
another neutral.

>   Are there any other problems appearing in the field which can be
>   reliably determined as due to concentrations of non-linear loads of less
>   than 3 kVA or so?

Probably not.

The only other problem that I know of is distribution
transformer overheating.  But, I believe such 
transformers are very much larger than 3 kVA, so 3 kVA
of non-linear loads would have very little effect. 


Best regards,
Rich





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