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Unbalance Voltage

10/12/2011 6:32 AM

What is the cause of unbalanced line to ground voltage on secondary side of delta delta connected transformer?

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Re: unbalance voltage

10/12/2011 6:33 AM

A mismatch in the impedances in each of the phase loads would do it.

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Re: Unbalance Voltage

10/12/2011 10:31 AM

First of all, it is grossly incorrect to "measure" - the phase-to-grou8nd voltage on the secondary side of a Delta-Delta Transformer. Assuming that the secndary Delta is unearthed, there is no way the delta windings will have a coupling (except a very small leakage capacitive coupling, which, of course, is negligible) to earth. In the absence of any such coupling, the secondary delta winding cannot and will not have a potential difference with ground.

Any reading you get in a voltmeter during any such measurement is superficial.

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Re: Unbalance Voltage

10/17/2011 7:04 AM

E.E.65 is right, voltage balance of secondary on such a transformer is not something to bother about. In practice, the LV windings have insulation capacitance to ground AND to the HV windings. So by capacitive voltage division, the HV voltage can throw unexpected voltage into an un-grounded delta secondary.

Real transformers have variations between phases (even by design) and unbalanced input voltage and your voltmeter will respond to harmonic frequencies at which input unbalance may be worse than for fundamental - so balanced voltage to ground is unlikely, rather balance would be exceptional.

The only reason to worry is if one phase voltage to ground is very low - which could be an actual earth fault.

You have not written that your transfo is loaded - loads are often single phase and capacitance and leakage to ground of the phase loads are often unequal because the loads themselves are unbalanced.

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