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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Instrument transformers are high accuracy class electrical devices used to isolate or transform
voltage or current levels. The most common usage of instrument transformers is to operate
instruments or metering from high voltage or high current circuits, safely isolating secondary
control circuitry from the high voltages or currents. The primary winding of the transformer is
connected to the high voltage or high current circuit, and the meter or relay is connected to the
secondary circuit.

Instrument transformers may also be used as an isolation transformer so that secondary

Current transformer

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Main article: Current transformer

equipment for three-phase 400 ampere electricity supply

Current transformers (CT) are a series-connected type of instrument transformer. They are
designed to present negligible load to the supply being measured and have an accurate current
ratio and phase relationship to enable accurate secondary connected metering.

Current transformers are often constructed by passing a single primary turn (either
an insulated cable or an uninsulated bus bar) through a well-insulated toroidal core wrapped
with many turns of wire. This affords easy implementation on high voltage bushings of grid
transformers and other devices by installing the secondary turn core inside high-voltage bushing
insulators and using the pass-through conductor as a single turn primary.

Clampmeter utilizing a split core

A current clamp uses a current transformer with a split core that can be easily wrapped around
a conductor in a circuit. This is a common method used in portable current measuring
instruments but permanent installations use more economical types of the current transformer.
Specially constructed wideband CTs are also used, usually with an oscilloscope, to measure high
frequency waveforms or pulsed currents within pulsed power systems. One type provides an IR
voltage output that is proportional to the measured current; another, called a Rogowski coil,
requires an external integrator in order to provide a proportional output.

Ratio

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The CT is typically described by its current ratio from primary to secondary. A 1000:5 CT will
provide an output current of 5 amperes when 1000 amperes are flowing through its primary
winding. Standard secondary current ratings are 5 amperes or 1 ampere, compatible with
standard measuring instruments. It is used to step down current for metering purposes for the
safety of the equipments as well as operator.

Burden and accuracy

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Burden and accuracy are usually stated as a combined parameter due to being dependent on
each other.

Metering style CTs are designed with smaller cores and VA capacities. This causes metering CTs
to saturate at lower secondary voltages saving sensitive connected metering devices from
damaging large fault currents in the event of a primary electrical fault. A CT with a rating of
0.3B0.6 would indicate with up to 0.6 ohms of secondary burden the secondary current will be
within a 0.3 percent error parallelogram on an accuracy diagram incorporating both phase angle
and ratio errors.[2]

Relaying CTs used for protective circuits are designed with larger cores and higher VA capacities
to ensure secondary measuring devices have true representations with massive grid fault
currents on primary circuits. A CT with a rating of 2.5L400 would indicate it can produce a
secondary voltage to 400 volts with a secondary current of 100 amperes (20 times its rated 5-
ampere rating) and still be within 2.5 amperes of true accuracy.

Care must be taken that the secondary winding of a CT is not disconnected from its low-
impedance load while current flows in the primary, as this may produce a dangerously high
voltage across the open secondary (especially in a relaying type CT) and could permanently
affect the accuracy of the transformer.

Multi-ratio CT

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 The secondary winding can be a single ratio or have several tap points to provide a range of
ratios.

Voltage transformer

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Main article: Voltage transformer

References

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1. ^ "Measurement Canada Standard Dwg. No.3400 D3 Delta Connected

2. ^ "Limits of the 0.3 and 0.6 accuracy classes for measuring current transformers".
Measurement Canada. Retrieved 18 April 2013.

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 This page was last edited on 21 October 2023, at 23:11 (UTC).