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Eg.1 A transformer is to be used to provide a 60 V output from a 240 V A.C supply. Calculate a. The turns of ratio required b. The number of primary turns, if the secondary is wound with 500 turns.

Eg.2 A 2000/200V, 20kVA transformer has 66 turns in the secondary. Calculate a. primary turns b. primary and secondary full-load currents Neglect the losses.

Eg.3 A transformer has 500 primary turns and 3000 secondary turns. If the primary voltage is 240 V, determine the secondary voltage, assuming an ideal transformer.

Eg.4 An ideal transformer with a turns ratio of 2 : 7 is fed from 240 V supply. Determine its output voltage.

Eg.5 An ideal transformer connected to a 240 V mains, supplies a 12 V, 150 W lamp. Calculate the transformer turns ratio and the current taken from the supply.

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Eg.6 A 250 kVA, 1100 V / 400 V, 50 Hz single-phase transformer has 80 turns on a secondary. Calculate : a. the approximate values of the primary and secondary currents. b. the approximate number of primary turns. c. the maximum values of flux.

Exercise An ideal 25 kVA transformer has 500 turns on the primary winding and 40 turns on the secondary winding. The primary is connected to 3000 V, 50 Hz supply. Calculate a. primary and secondary currents on full-load b. secondary e.m.f. and c. the maximum core flux

Eg.7 The primary and secondary windings of a 500 kVA transformer have resistances of 0.42 and 0.0019 respectively. The primary and secondary voltages are 11 000 V and 400 V respectively and the core loss is 2.9 kW, assuming the power factor of the load to be 0.8. Calculate the efficiency on : a. full load b. half load

Eg.8 In a 50 kVA transformer, the iron loss is 500 W and full-load copper loss is 800W. Find the efficiency at full-load and half-load at 0.8 p.f. lagging.

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