Experience in the start-up and full-scale tests of the equipment of the Bajina Basta pumped-storage station in Yugoslavia

1. The start-up and adjustment works on the equipment performed after completing the installation works during construction of the Bajina Basta PSS and the numerous acceptance tests of the reversible units in all steady and transient regimes conducted at a minimum head (with initial filling of the upper reservoir to the minimum operating level) provided the possibility of successful operation of the units at the design and maximum heads. 2. A timely check of the performance of individual components and mechanisms of the hydropower equipment and the performance of full-scale tests in all operating regimes of the units are necessary also for Soviet PSSs, which will promote the more successful start-up of PSSs.