Basic Electrical Technology

[ELE 1002]

Tutorial 3
Lecture 14

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Exercise 1
A magnetic circuit is made of a circular ring of mean circumference of 100 cm. A
saw cut across its cross section is made which is equivalent to an air gap of 2
mm. A coil of 2000 turns, wound on the ring, carries a current of 1 A resulting in
a magnetic flux of 2.5 mWb in the air gap. If the relative permeability of iron is
800, calculate the cross sectional area of iron ring. Neglect fringing effect &
leakage factor.

Ans: 0.32m2

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Exercise 2
A 1000 turns coils wound on the limb A of the symmetric cast iron steel frame
shown below. Cross-sectional area of the frame is 16 cm2. Find the current
through the coil in order to produce a total flux of 2 mWb in the air gap of the
central limb B. Assume uniform flux density and all the flux lines pass straight
across the air gap. Given air gap thickness 0.1 cm each and all the dimensions are
in centimeters.Assume μr for cast steel is 900.

A B C

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Ans : 2.68 A

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Exercise 3
Draw the dotted equivalent circuit and calculate the equivalent inductance of the
coupled circuit shown below where,
L1 = 0.1 H; L2 = 0.2 H; L3 = 0.4 H; k12 = 0.6; k23 = 0.7; k31 = 0.8

Ans : 0.606 H

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Exercise 4
Find the maximum and minimum inductance possible by connecting the following
magnetically coupled coils wound on the same core in series.
Given the self-inductances of the coils:
L1 = 20 mH; L2 = 30 mH,The coefficient of coupling: K = 0.8

Ans :
Lmax = 89.2 mH
Lmin = 10.8 mH

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