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Electrodynamometer Wattmeters PDF

Electrodynamometer wattmeters measure power by using two coil systems - fixed coils and a moving coil. The fixed coils carry the current of the circuit and act as the current coils. The moving coil is connected across the voltage and carries a proportional current, acting as the voltage or pressure coil. Spring control and air friction damping are used for the moving system, which has a light vane to reduce errors from stray magnetic fields or eddy currents. The instrument provides a mirror scale and knife-edge pointer to remove parallax errors in reading the power measurement.

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Electrodynamometer Wattmeters PDF

Electrodynamometer wattmeters measure power by using two coil systems - fixed coils and a moving coil. The fixed coils carry the current of the circuit and act as the current coils. The moving coil is connected across the voltage and carries a proportional current, acting as the voltage or pressure coil. Spring control and air friction damping are used for the moving system, which has a light vane to reduce errors from stray magnetic fields or eddy currents. The instrument provides a mirror scale and knife-edge pointer to remove parallax errors in reading the power measurement.

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ELECTRODYNAMOMETER

WATTMETER'S
• These instruments are similar in design and construction to electrodynamometer

type ammeters and voltmeters.

• The two coils are connected in different circuits for measurement of power.

• The fixed coils or “field coils” arc connected in series with the load and so

carry the current in the circuit.

• The fixed coils, therefore, form the current coil or simply C.C. of the

wattmeter.

• The moving coil is connected across the voltage and, therefore, carries a current

proportional to the voltage.

• A high non-inductive resistance is connected in series with the moving coil to

limit the current to a small value.

• Since the moving coil carries a current proportional to the voltage, it is called

the „„pressure coil‟‟ or “voltage coil” or simply called P.C. of the wattmeter.

Construction of Electrodynamometer Wattmeter

Fixed Coils

• The fixed coils carry the current of the circuit.

• They are divided into two halves.


• The reason for using fixed coils as current coils is that they can be made more

massive and can be easily constructed to carry considerable current since they

present no problem of leading the current in or out.

• The fixed coils are wound with heavy wire. This wire is stranded or laminated

especially when carrying heavy currents in order to avoid eddy current losses in

conductors.

• The fixed coils of earlier wattmeters were designed to carry a current of 100 A

but modem designs usually limit the maximum current ranges of wattmeters to

about 20 A.

• For power measurements involving large load currents, it is usually better to

use a 5 A wattmeter in conjunction with a current transformer of suitable range.

(fig) Dynamometer wattmeter


Moving Coil

• The moving coil is mounted on a pivoted spindle and is entirely embraced by

the fixed spindle & is entirely embraced b the fixed current coils.

• Spring control is used for the movement.

• The use of moving coil as pressure coil is a natural consequence of design

requirements.

• Since the current of the moving coil is carried by the instrument springs, it is

limited to values, which can be carried safely by springs.

Control

• Spring control is used for the instrument.

Damping

• Air friction damping is used.

• The moving system carries a light aluminium vane which moves in a sector

shaped box.

• Electromagnetic or eddy current damping is not used as introduction of a

permanent magnet (for damping purposes) will greatly distort the weak operating

magnetic field.

Scales and Pointers

• They are equipped with mirror type scales and knife edge pointers to remove
reading errors due to parallax.

Theory of Electrodynamometer Watt-meters


Errors in electrodynamometer

i) Errors due to inductance effects

ii) Stray magnetic field errors

iii) Eddy current errors

iv) Temperature error.

Source: http://mediatoget.blogspot.in/2012/01/electrodynamometer-

wattmeters.html

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