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Virtual Instrument for Testing of Current and Voltage Transformers

Publication Type : Conference Paper

Publisher : Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2006. IMTC 2006. Proceedings of the IEEE

Source : Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2006. IMTC 2006. Proceedings of the IEEE (2006)

Keywords : ac bridge measurement, Bridge circuits, bridge measurement, Current measurement, current transformers, Equations, Instrument (current and voltage) transformers, instrument transformers, Instrumentation and measurement, iterative balancing, Iterative methods, phase errors, potential transformers, Power system protection, power transformer testing, quasi-balance, test transformers, Testing, virtual instrumentation, voltage transformers

Campus : Coimbatore

School : School of Engineering

Department : Electronics and Communication

Year : 2006

Abstract : Instrument transformers, namely, current and voltage (potential) transformers are characterized by their ratio and phase errors. A novel virtual instrument that determines the errors of an instrument transformer using a quasi-balance technique is proposed in this paper. Operating on the secondary quantities of the test and standard transformers, two independent quasi-balance conditions are obtained. The errors of the test transformer are then determined using the two quasi-balance settings alone. The method inherently possesses all the advantages of an ac bridge but dispenses with the tedious iterative balancing. A prototype unit built and tested establishes the practical viability of the proposed technique

Cite this Research Publication : Dr. Madhu Mohan N., George, B., and Kumar, V. J., “Virtual Instrument for Testing of Current and Voltage Transformers”, in Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2006. IMTC 2006. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2006.

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