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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Q. A moving iron ammeter produces a full-scale torque of 240 μN-m with a deflection of 120° at a current of 10 A. the rate of change of self-inductance (μH/rad) of the instrument at full scale is?

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Q. A moving coil of a meter has 250 turns and a length and depth of 40 mm and 30 mm respectively. It is positioned in a uniform radial flux density of 450 mT. The coil carries a current of 160 mA. The torque on the coil is?

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Q. Two 100 μA full-scale PMMC meters are employed to construct a 10 V and a 100 V full-scale voltmeter. These meters will have figure of merit (sensitivities) as?

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Q. A PMMC rated as 100 μA is used in a rectifier type of instrument which uses full wave rectification. What is the sensitivity on sinusoidal AC?

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Q. The discharge of a capacitor through a ballistic galvanometer produces a damped frequency of 0.125 Hz and successive swings of 120, 96 and 76.8 mm. The damping ratio is?

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Q. The discharge of a capacitor through a ballistic galvanometer produces a damped frequency of 0.125 Hz and successive swings of 120, 96 and 76.8 mm. The logarithmic decrement is?

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