FAMILIARIZATION WITH

VARIOUS MEASURING
INSTRUMENTS AND DEVICES
IN BASIC ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING LABORATORY
 OUTPUT
INPUT
TERMINALS
POTENTIAL DIVIDER TERMINALS
MOVING COIL AMMETER (MCA)
MOVING COIL VOLTMETER (MCV)
 COM 5A 2.5A 2.5A

MOVING IRON AMMETER (MIA) MOVING IRON VOLTMETER (MIV)

 M
L COM

Voltage range and Current range Multiplying factor

𝑀𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 (𝑀. 𝐹. )
𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 × 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 × 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟
≜
𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 − 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟

Full scale division = 125

Thus for voltage range = 250 V and current range = 1A and for a unity
power factor load, Thus, actual power measured by
250×1×1 the wattmeter= Dial reading of the
𝑀𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 ≜ = 2 meter * Multiplying factor (M.F)
125
A Wattmeter measures electrical power.
Since Power = voltage x current,
Wattmeter needs both voltage and current signals to measure
power.
A wattmeter has a voltage coil or pressure coil (PC) which senses
voltage across the element for which the power is to be measured
and a current coil (CC) through that element or part of the circuit.
The current coil terminals are marked as M and L.
A wattmeter has at least 4 terminals, two for current coils and two
for pressure coils.
SINGLE-PHASE VARIABLE AUTO
TRANSFORMER (VARIAC)

OUTPUT TERMINALS
 LOAD BOX
(RESISTIVE)
FOR LOAD
VARIATION
SWITCHES FOR
VARYING THE
LOAD
 EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP TO FOR FAMILIARIZATION EXPERIMENT WITH
POTENTIAL DIVIDER, VARIAC, MCA, MIA MCV, MIV

POTENTIAL
DIVIDER
VARIAC