CEBU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

UNIVERSITY

Name: Date Performed: May 21, 2021

Program & Year: BSEE – 2 Date Due: May 24, 2021

EE 282
ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS II LABORATORY
Laboratory Experiment No. 7
POWER MEASUREMENT OF AN UNBALANCED LOAD USING TWO WATTMETER
METHOD

OBJECTIVES
1. Measure power of an unbalanced three phase load.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Verify the least number of wattmeters needed to measure power of a unbalanced
three phase load.

SIMULATION SOFTWARE
NI Multisim
FIGURE
R1 L1

5Ω 10mH
V1 R2
3PH

10Ω
120V 60Hz R3 C1

8Ω
1mF
Figure 7.1

PROCEDURE
1. Build the circuit shown in Figure 7.1 using NI MULTISIM.
 2. Using a wattmeter measure the power per phase of the load. Record the measurement in
Table 7.1.
3. Using two wattmeter method, insert two wattmeters in the circuit with the configuration
shown in Table 7.2. Record the result in the same table.
4. Verify that the sum of the two wattmeters is equal to the sum of the wattmeter
reading in procedure 2.

RESULTS, DATA, CALCULATIONS

Potential coil Current coil Power

1-N 1 1.382 kW
2-N 2 1.440 kW
3-N 3 1.623 kW
Table 7.1

W1 W2 W1 + W2
Line 1 as common point 2.160 kW 1.970 kW 4.13 kW
Line 2 as common point 3.948 kW 2.899 kW 6.847 kW
Line 3 as common point 1.548 kW 2.160 kW 3.708 kW
Table 7.2
GRAPH

OBSERVATIONS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

CONCLUSION
SIMULATION

1-N

2-N
 3-N

Two Wattmeter Method (Line 1 as a common point)

Two Wattmeter Method (Line 2 as a common point)

Two Wattmeter Method (Line 3 as a common point)