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  2. Steinmetz's equation - Wikipedia

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    The equation is used mainly to calculate core losses in ferromagnetic magnetic cores used in electric motors, generators, transformers and inductors excited by sinusoidal current. Core losses are an economically important source of inefficiency in alternating current (AC) electric power grids and appliances.

  3. Copper loss - Wikipedia

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    Copper loss is the term often given to heat produced by electrical currents in the conductors of transformer windings, or other electrical devices. Copper losses are an undesirable transfer of energy , as are core losses , which result from induced currents in adjacent components.

  4. Leakage inductance - Wikipedia

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    Leakage inductance has the useful effect of limiting the current flows in a transformer (and load) without itself dissipating power (excepting the usual non-ideal transformer losses). Transformers are generally designed to have a specific value of leakage inductance such that the leakage reactance created by this inductance is a specific value ...

  5. Open-circuit test - Wikipedia

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    Since the impedance of the series winding of the transformer is very small compared to that of the excitation branch, all of the input voltage is dropped across the excitation branch. Thus the wattmeter measures only the iron loss. This test only measures the combined iron losses consisting of the hysteresis loss and the eddy current loss ...

  6. Short-circuit test - Wikipedia

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    The test is conducted on the high-voltage (HV) side of the transformer where the low-voltage (LV) side (or the secondary) is short-circuited. A wattmeter is connected to the primary side. An ammeter is connected in series with the primary winding. A voltmeter is optional since the applied voltage is the same as the voltmeter reading.

  7. Transformer - Wikipedia

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    In electrical engineering, a transformer is a passive component that transfers electrical energy from one electrical circuit to another circuit, or multiple circuits.A varying current in any coil of the transformer produces a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core, which induces a varying electromotive force (EMF) across any other coils wound around the same core.

  8. Dielectric loss - Wikipedia

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    The loss tangent is then defined as the ratio (or angle in a complex plane) of the lossy reaction to the electric field E in the curl equation to the lossless reaction: tan ⁡ δ = ω ε ″ + σ ω ε ′ . {\displaystyle \tan \delta ={\frac {\omega \varepsilon ''+\sigma }{\omega \varepsilon '}}.}

  9. Losses in electrical systems - Wikipedia

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    In an electrical or electronic circuit or power system part of the energy in play is dissipated by unwanted effects, including energy lost by unwanted heating of resistive components (electricity is also used for the intention of heating, which is not a loss), the effect of parasitic elements (resistance, capacitance, and inductance), skin effect, losses in the windings and cores of ...