Q. A 200/1 Current Transformer (CT) is wound with 400 turns on the secondary on a toroidal core. When it carries a current of 180 A on the primary, the ratio is found to be -0.5%. If the number of secondary turns is reduced by 1, the new ratio error (in %) will be?

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Q. A (350 A/ 7A), 50 Hz current transformer has a primary bar. The secondary burden is a pure resistance of 1 Ω and it draws a current of 5 A. The magnetic core requires 350 AT for magnetization. Find the percentage ratio error.

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Q. The observation when the secondary winding of a current transformer is open-circuited is?

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Q. Usually a CT has ____________

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Q. A PT is a device which is ___________

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Q. The CT supplies current to the current coil of a wattmeter power factor meter, energy meter and, an ammeter. These are connected as?

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Q. In a moving iron meter, the deflection torque is proportional to?

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Q. The full-scale deflection current of an ammeter is 4 mA and its internal resistance is 400Ω. If this meter is to have a full deflection of 10 A, what is the value of the shunt resistance to be used?

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Q. The full-scale deflection current of a meter is 4 mA and its internal resistance is 400Ω. This meter is to have full deflection when 400 V is measured. What is the value of the series resistor to be used?

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Q. Two ammeters, one with a full-scale current of 1 mA and internal resistance of 100 Ω and other a full-scale current of 10 mA and internal resistance of 25 Ω are in parallel. What is the total current, these two meters can carry without the reading out of scale in any meter?

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Q. A meter has a full scale of 90° at a current of 1 A. This meter has a perfect square law response. What is the current when the deflection angle is 45°?

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Q. The scale of a dynamometer type instrument marked in terms of RMS value would be__________

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Q. Moving Iron Instrument can be used as ____________

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Q. A 10 mA PMMC ammeter reads 4 mA in a circuit. Its bottom control spring snaps suddenly. The meter will now show __________

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Q. The standardization of AC potentiometer is done by ____________

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Q. The inductance of a certain moving- iron ammeter is expressed as L = 10 + 3θ – \(\frac{θ^2}{4}\) μH, where θ is the deflection in radian from the zero position. The control spring torque is 25 × 10⁻⁶ Nm/rad. The meter carries a current of 5 A. What is the deflection?

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Q. A current of – 8 + 6\(\sqrt{2}\) (sin (ωt + 30°)) A is passed through three meters. The respective readings (in ampere) will be?

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Q. A rectifier type AC voltmeter consists of a series resistance R, an ideal full-wave rectifier bridge and a PMMC instrument. The internal resistance of the instrument is 100 Ω and a full- scale deflection is produced by a DC current of 1 mA. A voltage of 100 V (rms) is applied to the input terminals. The value of R required is?

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Q. A current of [2 + \(\sqrt{2}\) sin (314t + 30) + 2\(\sqrt{2}\) cos (952t +45)] is measured with a thermocouple type, 5A full scale, class 1 meter. The meter reading would lie in the range?

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Q. A 50 Hz voltage is measured with a moving iron voltmeter and a rectifier type AC voltmeter connected in parallel. If the meter readings are Va and Vb respectively. Then the form factor may be estimated as?

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