L T P C
(Common to EIE & ICE)
3 1 0 4
To provide adequate knowledge in electrical measurements and instrumentation.
To make the students to gain a clear knowledge of the basic laws governing the operation of electrical instruments and the measurement techniques.
i. Emphasis is laid on the meters used to measure current & voltage.
ii. To have an adequate knowledge in the measurement techniques for power and energy, power and energy meters are included.
iii. Elaborate discussion about potentiometer & instrument transformers. iv. Detailed study of resistance measuring methods.
v. Detailed study of inductance and capacitance measurement.
UNIT I MEASUREMENT OF VOLTAGE AND CURRENT 9
Galvanometers – Ballistic, D’Arsonval galvanometer – Theory, calibration, application – Principle, construction, operation and comparison of moving coil, moving iron meters, dynamometer, induction type & thermal type meter, rectifier type – Extension of range and calibration of voltmeter and ammeter – Errors and compensation.
UNIT II MEASUREMENT OF POWER AND ENERGY 9
Electrodynamometer type wattmeter – Theory & its errors – Methods of correction – LPF wattmeter
– Phantom loading – Induction type kWh meter – Induction type energy meter – Calibration of wattmeter.
UNIT III POTENTIOMETERS & INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS 9
DC potentiometer – Basic circuit, standardization – Laboratory type (Crompton’s) – AC potentiometer – Drysdale (polar type) type – Gall-Tinsley (coordinate) type – Limitations & applications – C.T and P.T construction, theory, operation and characteristics.
UNIT IV RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT 9
Measurement of low, medium & high resistance – Ammeter, voltmeter method – Wheatstone bridge
– Kelvin double bridge – Series and shunt type ohmmeter – High resistance measurement – Megger – Direct deflection methods – Price’s guard-wire method – Earth resistance measurement.
UNIT V IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT 9
A.C bridges – Measurement of inductance, capacitance – Q of coil – Maxwell Bridge – Wein’s bridge – Schering bridge – Anderson bridge – Campbell bridge to measure mutual inductance – Errors in A.C. bridge methods and their compensation – Detectors – Excited field – A.C. galvanometer – Vibration galvanometer
L = 45 T = 15 Total = 60
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