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In Transformer Fundamentals , you'll learn ...
- The physical characteristics of transformers, including their basic parts, common core materials, and main core types
- How to identify a transformer as step up or step down and state the current ratio of a transformer when given the turns ratio
- How to solve for primary voltage, secondary voltage, primary current, and number of turns in the secondary given various transformer values
- General safety precautions to observe when working with transformers and other electrical components
Overview
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Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 24 pages
A transformer is an electrical device that transfers energy from one circuit to another purely by magnetic coupling. Transformers are often used to convert between high and low voltages, to change impedance, and to provide electrical isolation between circuits. A transformer doesn't change power levels, though. If you put 100 Watts into a transformer, 100 Watts come out the other end. Actually, there are minor losses in the transformer because nothing in the real world is 100% perfect. But transformers come pretty darn close; perhaps 95% efficient.
This course presents the basics of transformers including transformer action, transformer components, and transformer design. It also covers the essential operational principles behind transformers, as well as practical matters such as power losses and transformer efficiency. Finally, the course discusses different applications of various transformer types and concludes with a brief look at some safety precautions to take when working with transformers.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Transformer action and the physical characteristics of transformers
- The difference in construction between a high and a low voltage transformer
- The meaning of "no-load condition" and "exciting current"
- The meaning of leakage flux and its effect on the coefficient of coupling
- Step up and step down transformers
- How to calculate the current ratio of a transformers when given the turns ratio
- The mathematical relationship between the power in the primary and the power in the secondary of a transformer
- The three power losses in a transformer
- The five different types of transformers according to their applications
- General safety precautions when working with transformers
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 15 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 24 pages
