Department of Electrical Engineering

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad

Electrical Measurement & Instrumentation (1st Sem) Assignment- 1

1. The torque of an ammeter varies as the square of the current through it. If a current of
5 A produces a deflection of 90º, what deflection will occur for a current of 3 A when
the instrument is (i) spring-controlled and (ii) gravity-controlled.
2. The inductance of a moving-iron ammeter with a full-scale deflection of 90° at 1.5 A
is given by L = (200 + 40θ - 4θ2 -θ3) μH where θ is the deflection in radian from the
zero position. Estimate the angular deflection of the pointer for a current of 1 A.
3. The law of deflection of a moving-iron ammeter is given by I = 4θn ampere, where θ is
the deflection in radian and n is a constant. The self-inductance when the meter current
is zero is 10 mH. The spring constant is 0.16 N-m/rad.
(a) Determine an expression for self-inductance of the meter as a function of θ and n.
(b)With n = 0.75, calculate the meter current and the deflection that corresponds to a
self-inductance of 60 mH.
4. A spring-controlled moving-iron voltmeter reads correctly on 250-V d.c. Calculate the
scale reading when 250-V a.c. is applied at 50 Hz. The instrument coil has a resistance
of 500 Ω and an inductance of 1 H and the series (non-reactive) resistance is 2000 Ω.
5. A moving-coil instrument has a resistance of 10 Ω and gives full-scale deflection when
carrying a current of 50 mA. Show how it can be adopted to measure voltage up to 750
V and currents upto 1000 A.
6. A permanent magnet moving-coil voltmeter gives full-scale deflection with a current
of 5 mA. The coil has 100 turns, effective depth of 3 cm and width of 2.5 cm. The
controlling torque of the spring is 0.5 cm for full-scale deflection. Estimate the flux
density in the gap.
7. A 50 V range spring-controlled electrodynamic voltmeter has an initial inductance of
0.25 H, the full scale deflection torque of 0.4 × 10-4 Nm and full scale deflection current
of 50 mA. Determine the difference between dc and 50 Hz ac reading at 50 volts if the
voltmeter inductance increases uniformly over the full scale of 90°.
8. Two wattmeters are connected to measure the power consumed by a 3-phase balanced
load. One of the wattmeters read 1500 Ω and the other 700 Ω. Find power factor of the
load, when (a) both the readings are positive, and (b) when the reading of the second
wattmeter is obtained after reversing its current coil connection.
9. A 230 V, single-phase watt hour meter records a constant load of 10 A for 4 hours at
unity power factor. If the meter disc makes 2760 revolutions during this period, what
is the meter constant in terms of revolutions per unit? Calculate the load power factor
if the number of revolutions made by the meter is 1104 when recording 5 A at 230 V
for 6 hours.
10. A dynamometer type wattmeter with its voltage coil connected across the load side of
the instrument reads 250 W. If the load voltage be 200 V, what power is being taken by
load? The voltage coil branch has a resistance of 2,000 Ω.