Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

ES 105 Electrical and Electronics B.Tech., Semester: II

Laboratory

EXPERIMENT 2: POWER MEASUREMENT IN THREE PHASE CIRCUITS

Objective:
(i) To determine the three phase power consumed using 2-wattmeters/3 wattmeters
methods for different types of connections (star or delta) and loadings (balanced
and unbalanced).
(ii) Utilizing the measured voltage magnitudes and power, construct the phasor diagram
for unbalanced loads.
(iii) Understand how the active, reactive powers and power factor measured using
wattmeter measurements.
Pre-requisite:
(i) How to measure single phase power using wattmeter
(ii) Relationship among the magnitude of phasors in star and delta connections, three
phase power measurement using 3-wattmeters and 2-wattmeters
Lab Facility available
Three phase load bank-Balanced/unbalanced, Active/Reactive ( at rated line and phase
voltages) and three phase auto transformer.

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The Wattmeters and other required test and measuring equipments.

Balanced three phase R, RL and RC loads.

Laboratory Work:

Construct the circuits and conduct the experiments for the given tasks. Collect the data,
construct the phasor diagrams and compute the active and reactive powers.