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Symmetrical components are a good way to represent out-of balance currents in 3-phase power supplies.

In general an unbalanced set of currents in a 3-phase system can be represented by three compents, which are an in-sequence component, an out-of-sequence (rotating oppositely) component, and a zero-sequence component.

At a high-power substation there would be meters for all three components of the current. When the currents are perfectly balanced only the positive sequence current would be non-zero.

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