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Electrician Measuring Instruments Guide

The document provides an overview of electrical measuring instruments used in the Electrician Trade, detailing types of current, testing potentials, and various measuring instruments. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of different types of instruments such as PMMC and moving-iron instruments, as well as their applications. Additionally, it covers essential forces required for indicating instruments and includes information on various types of meters and their functionalities.

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Electrician Measuring Instruments Guide

The document provides an overview of electrical measuring instruments used in the Electrician Trade, detailing types of current, testing potentials, and various measuring instruments. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of different types of instruments such as PMMC and moving-iron instruments, as well as their applications. Additionally, it covers essential forces required for indicating instruments and includes information on various types of meters and their functionalities.

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Prabhu JTO Electrician

Govt ITI Chamarajanagara


Electrician Trade
First Year
Electrical measuring instruments
(meters) is an apparatus, used for
measuring the electrical quantities
like current, voltage, resistance
power and energy etc.
Types of current:
Direct Current

Alternating Current

Direct& Alternating
Current
Testing Potential
Testing potential 500V

Testingpotential over
2
500V eg, 2000V(2KV)

Testingpotential over
3
500V eg, 3000V(3KV)
Using position
Vertical using position.

Horizontal using position.

Angle of usage eg. 600


tilt angle.
Measuring instrument
 types
Moving coil instrument

Moving iron instrument

Electrodynamic
quotient instrument

Moving coil instrument


with rectifier
Indication error
1 Indication error ± 1%

2. Indication error ± 2.5%


5
Indication error ± 3.5%
3.
5
Terminal markings:
Absolute instruments :
Tangent Galvanometer
Galvanometer
Secondary instruments

Indicating
instruments

Integrating
instruments


Essential forces required for
an indicating instrument
1) Deflecting force or
operating force
2) Controlling Force
3) Damping ForceGravity
control

Spring
control
Damping force
Permanent magnet moving
coil (PMMC) instruments
Advantages: The PMMC
• Consumes lessinstrument
power
• Has uniform scale and can cover an arc up to 270
Degree
• Has high torque/weight ratio
• Can be modified as voltmeter or ammeter with
suitable resistors
• Has efficient damping
• Is not affected by stray magnetic fields, and
• Has no loss due to hysteresis.
Disadvantages: The PMMC
instrument
• Can be used only in DC
Moving-iron instruments
Advantages: The MI
• They can be used for both AC and DC, and are hence
instrument
called unpolorized instruments.
• They have a small value of friction errors as the
torque/weight ratio is high.
• They are less costly when compared to the moving coil
instruments.
• They are robust owing to their simple construction.
• They have satisfactory accuracy levels within the limits of
both precision and industrial grades.
Disadvantages: The MI
• They have scales covering 240°.
• They have errors due to hysteresis, frequency changes,
instrument
wave-form and stray magnetic fields.
• They have non-uniform scales commonly. However,
special manufacturing designs are utilized to get more or
less uniform scales.
Dynamometer type
instrument
Dynamometer type
instrument
Wattmeter instrument
Single Phase Disc Type Energy
Meter
Single Phase Digital Energy
Meter
Three Phase Digital Energy
Meter
Analog Multimeter
Digital Multimeter
Digital Multimeter
Mechanical resonance type
Frequency meter
Digital Frequency Meter
Power factor meter
Digital Frequency Meter

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