Work sheet

1. A step-down transformer having a turn’s ratio of 20:1 has a primary voltage of 4kV and a load
of 10 kW. Neglecting losses, calculate the value of the secondary current.
2. A 3300 V/440 V, single-phase transformer takes a no-load current of 0.8A and the iron loss is
500 W. Draw the no-load phasor diagram and determine the values of the magnetizing and core
loss components of the no-load current.
3. A transformer takes a current of 1A when its primary is connected to a 300V, 50Hz supply,
the secondary being on open-circuit. If the power absorbed is 120 watts, calculate
(a) The iron loss current,
(b) The power factor on no-load, and
(c) The magnetizing current.
4. A 60kVA, 1600V/100V, 50Hz, single-phase transformer has 50 secondary turns. Calculate
(a) The primary and secondary current,
(b) The number of primary turns and
(c) The maximum value of the flux.
5. A single-phase, 50 Hz transformer has 40 primary turns and 520 secondary turns. The cross-
Sectional area of the core is 270cm2. When the primary winding is connected to a 300 volt supply,
determine
(a) The maximum value of flux density in the core, and
(b) The voltage induced in the secondary winding
6. A 3.3kV/110V, 50Hz, single-phase transformer is to have an approximate emf per turn of 22 V,
And operate with a maximum flux of 1.25T. Calculate
(a) The number of primary and secondary turns, and
(b) The cross-sectional area of the core
7. A single-phase transformer has 2400 turns on the primary and 600 turns on the secondary. Its
no-load current is 4 A at a power factor of 0.25 lagging. Assuming the volt drop in the windings
is negligible, calculate the primary current and power factor when the secondary current is 80 A
at a power factor of 0.8 lagging.
8. A transformer has 1200 primary turns and 200 secondary turns. The primary and secondary
resistances are 0.2  and 0.02  respectively and the corresponding leakage reactances are 1.2 
and 0.05  respectively. Calculate:
(a) The equivalent resistance, reactance and impedance referred to the primary winding,
(b) The phase angle of the impedance.
9. A 6 kVA, 100 V/500 V, single-phase transformer has a secondary terminal voltage of 487.5 V
When loaded. Determine the voltage regulation of the transformer.
10. A single-phase transformer has a voltage ratio of 6:1 and the HV winding is supplied at 540
V. The secondary winding provides a full load current of 30 A at a power factor of 0.8 lagging.
Neglecting losses, find (a) the rating of the transformer, (b) the power supplied to the load, (c)
the primary current.
11. A single-phase transformer is rated at 40 kVA. The transformer has full-load copper losses
of 800 W and iron losses of 500 W. Determine the transformer efficiency at full load and 0.8
power factor.
12. A 300 kVA transformer has a primary winding resistance of 0.4  and a secondary winding
resistance of 0.0015. The iron loss is 2 kW and the primary and secondary voltages are 4 kV and
200 V respectively. If the power factor of the load is 0.78, determine the efficiency of the
transformer (a) On full load, and
(b) On half load.
13. A three-phase transformer has 600 primary turns and 150 secondary turns. If the supply
voltage is 1.5 kV determine the secondary line voltage on no-load when the windings are
connected.
(a) delta-star,
(b) star-delta.
14. A current transformer has two turns on the primary winding and a secondary winding of 26
turns. The secondary winding is connected to an ammeter with a resistance of 0.2, the
resistance of the secondary winding is 0.3. If the current in the primary winding is 650 A,
determine: (a) The reading on the ammeter,
(b) The potential difference across the ammeter, and
(c) The total load in VA on the secondary.
15. A 50 kVA, 2200/110 V transformer when tested gave the following results:
O.C. test (L.V. side): 400W, 10A, 110V.
S.C. test (H.V. side): 808W, 20.5A, 90V.
Draw the equivalent circuit and compute all its parameters referred to the HV side.

16. A 20kVA, 2500/250V, 50Hz, 1-phase transformer has the following test results:
O.C. Test (LV side): 250 V, 1.4 A, 105 W
S.C. Test (HV side): 104 V, 8 A, 320 W
Compute the parameters of the approximate equivalent circuit referred to the low voltage side
and draw the circuit.
17. Draw the equivalent circuit for a 3000/400V, 1-phase transformer on which the following test
results were obtained.
Input to HV winding when LV winding is open-circuited: 3000V, 0.5A, 500W.
Input to LV winding when HV winding is short-circuited: 11V, 100A and 500W.