BACHELOR OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

PST 711S: Power Systems Engineering 315 (BEng)

Lab Report 3

Student’s Full Name: KAWANA ISAYA Student’s No: 215057090

Bench No: ------------------------------ Date: 19/04/2018

THREE PHASE POWER MEASUREMENT – TWO WATTMETTER METHOD

MARKS OBTAINED:

Marks % weight

Part 1 10 10

Part 2 54 60

Report 16 30

TOTAL MARKS 80 100

INTRODUCTION
The Two Wattmeter method can be used to measure the power in a 3 phase, three wire, star or delta
connected balanced or unbalanced load. In this power measurement method, the current coils of the
two-watt meters are connected in any two lines, for example, the yellow and blue line, and the
voltage circuits are connected between these lines and the third line, i.e. red line as depicted in the
diagram below.

Figure 1.

The total instantaneous power absorbed by the 3 loads Z 1, Z2 and Z3 is equal to the sum of powers
measured by the two wattmeters, W1 and W2.

OBJECTIVES
1. To measure 3 phase power using the 2-wattmeter method.
2. To develop skills in using the 2-wattmeters for power measurement.

EQUIPMENT
 A 3-Phase AC/DC Variable 380/220V

 An RLC Panel

 Multi meters and Watt meters

 Laboratory connecting leads

 Three-phase induction motor/ DC generator set

 Tachometer

PROCEDURES
 1. The 3-phase induction motor was connected as seen in figure 2 below. The connection was
achieved from a series of steps:
Initially, voltmeters were used to measure the rated voltage of the induction motor from the
3-phase source. Upon verifying the rated voltage, the ammeters were connected in series
with the wattmeters and the 3-phase source. Caution had to be taken on the terminals of the
wattmeter to note down the multiplying factor of the measured power.

2. The other part which is the D.C motor was then connected as seen in figure 2 below. The
loading of the motor was achieved by loading the D.C generator through decreasing the load
resistance at constant field current. The D.C load was connected with parameters of the D.C
motor rated values.

3. Measurements were taken at rated load with gradual decrease of the no load current, i.e.
the load was decreased gradually by observing the ammeter at the field current circuit. The
speed of the IM was measured using a tachometer. This was done in 6 gradual steps and the
results at each step were recorded in Table 1.

3-phase power is calculated as a sum of P1 and P2, i.e. P 3-PHASE = P1 + P2

Power factor is calculated as follow: cos θ = cos (tan -1 (

√3 (P1−P2) ) )
(P 1+ P2)

Figure 2.

RESULTS
 I1 POWER n GENERATOR

NO IA IB IC P1 P2 P3- r.p.m VA IA CALCULAT

(A) (A) (A) PHASE (V) (A) ED COSƟ
1 1.5 1.5 1.48 192 580 772 1300 82.5 2.1 0.7546723262
2 1.4 1.4 1.41 152 540 692 1679 114.4 1.75 0.7173792971
3 1.3 1.3 1.29 112 500 612 2067 142.4 1.4 0.6733101087
4 1.2 1.2 1.19 64 432 496 2329 165.1 1.05 0.6141323601
5 1.13 1.14 1.13 21 384 405 2507 180.7 0.7 0.5415270935
6 1.13 1.13 1.12 12 372 384 2572 187.3 0.54 0.5243788203

Table 1.

DISCUSSION
Upon analysing results from table 1, it is seen that as the load decreases, the speed of the induction
motor increases, this is also accompanied by a decrease in armature current because less current is
then needed to run the decreased load.

It is confirmed from observation that the induction motor was heavily loaded (not overloaded) at the
rated D.C values, and run with more strain, as the load was gradually reduced, the induction motor
started running more lightly. This observation can also be seen from the results in table 1.

The two powers measured by wattmeter 1 and 2 decreased as the load was decreased. This is
because less current is required d by the induction motor to carry the load and hence less power is
consumed.

CONCLUSION
In conclusion, the laboratory exercise was a success although there were some difficulties in setting
up the correct functional circuit. In certain instances, troubleshooting was done due to faulty
equipment that led to errors in the experiment, i.e. no readings at some meters and values that are
out of range of the expected values. In the end , we managed to successfully use the 2 wattmeter
method to measure 3 phase power and the experiment was beneficial in gaining practical skills on
working with watt meters.