Windings

There are two windings wound over the transformer core which are
insulated from each other. Windings consists of several turns of copper
coils bundled together each bundles are connected in series to form a
winding.

Windings can be classified in two different ways.

a) Based on the input and output supply
b) Based on the voltage range

Based on THE SUPPLY the windings are classified into.

a) Primary windings: - It is the winding to which the input voltage is
applied.
b) Secondary windings: - It is the winding to which the output voltage is
applied.

Based on THE VOLTAGE the windings can be classified as follows:

a) High voltage winding: -High voltage windings are made up of copper coil. The number of turns
in it is the multiple of the number of turns in the low voltage windings. It has copper coils
thinner than that of the low voltage windings.
b) Low voltage windings: -Low voltage windings have lesser number of turns than that of the high
voltage windings. It is made up of the thick copper conductors. This is because the current in
the low voltage windings is higher than that the of high voltage windings.

Transformer can be supplied from either LV or HV windings based on the requirement.

Windings are made of copper due to the following reasons.

 High conductivity
 High ductility