Explain the construction of Induction type Wattmeter.
A watt-meter has two laminated electromagnet, one of which is excited by load current or definite fraction of it, and is connected in series with the circuit, known as series magnet and the other is excited by the current proportional to the applied voltage or fraction of it and is always connected across the supply, known as shunt magnet. An aluminum disc is so mounted so that it cuts the fluxes produced by both the magnets. As a result of which, two e.m.fs are produced which induces two eddy currents in the disc. C - Magnet is used to provide necessary damping torque to the pointer, to damp out the oscillations. Deflecting torque is produced due to interaction of these eddy currents and the inducing flux. Copper shading bands are provided either on central limb or on the outer limb of the shunt magnet, and can be so adjusted as to make the resultant flux in the shunt magnet lag behind the applied voltage by 90. Both the watt-meters are provided with spiral springs A and B, for producing controlling torque to counter balance the deflecting torque. In Induction type Wattmeter the spiral spring and damping magnet is omitted for simplicity. The scale of such type instruments is quite uniform and extends over an angle of 300°. Currents up to 100 A can be handled by these watt-meters directly where as beyond this current transformers are used. Two types of induction type watt meters are available.
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| Fig. 1. Induction type Wattmeter |
In the form of the instrument shown in Fig. 1, two pressure coils are connected in series in such a way that both of them send flux through the central limb. The series magnet also carries two small current coils connected in series and wound so that they magnetized their respective cores in the same direction. Correct phase displacement between the fluxes produced by series and shunt magnet is obtained by the adjustment of copper shading band on the central limb.
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| Fig. 2. Induction type Wattmeter |
In Fig. 2, there is only one pressure and one current coil. Two projecting poles of shunt magnet are surrounded by a copper shading band whose position can be adjusted for correcting the phase of the flux of this magnet with the applied voltage. The pressure coil circuit of induction type instrument is made as inductive as possible so that the flux of the shunt magnet may lag nearly by 90 behind the applied voltage.
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