Armature Windings Articles

Armature Windings Articles: Types of Armature Winding in Electric Machine: We Know that field and Armature Winding Machine are the essential features of electric machines. The field windings are simple…

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Selection of Surge Arresters

Selection of Surge Arresters: These are non-linear resistors in series with spark gaps which act as fast switches. A Selection of Surge Arresters or lightning arrester is shown in Fig.…

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Impulse Voltage Test System

Impulse Voltage Test System: It is extremely difficult to control and adjust the Impulse Voltage Test System wave shapes for different load conditions as in the case of large capacitive…

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Electrostatic Voltmeters

Electrostatic Voltmeters: In Electrostatic Voltmeters fields, the attractive force between the electrodes of a parallel plate capacitor is given by where, V = applied voltage between plates, C = capacitance…

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Capacitance Voltage Transformer

Capacitance Voltage Transformer: The errors due to harmonic voltages can be eliminated by the use of capacitive voltage dividers with an electrostatic voltmeter or a high impedance meter such as…

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Series Capacitance Voltmeter

Series Capacitance Voltmeter: To avoid the drawbacks pointed out earlier, a Series Capacitance Voltmeter is used instead of a resistor for a.c. high voltage measurements. The schematic diagram is shown…

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Generating Voltmeter Principle and Construction

Generating Voltmeter Principle and Construction: High voltage measuring devices employ generating principle when source loading is prohibited (as with Van de Graaff generators, etc.) or when direct connection to the…

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