Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electrical transformer in which the primary and secondary coils have some or all windings in common.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In electricity, a transformer, in which a part of the primary coil is used as secondary coil, or inversely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a
compensator orbalancing coil .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
transformer with a singlewinding , output being taken fromtaps
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Examples
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In partial fig. 1 the incandescent lamps will blow due to inter-turn-short-circuit in the autotransformer.
1. Protective measures against too high a contact voltage and conduct following electrical accidents Werner Boschitsch 1991
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The danger caused for equipment and persons in case of a defect at the autotransformer is illustrated by fig. 1.27.
1. Protective measures against too high a contact voltage and conduct following electrical accidents Werner Boschitsch 1991
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Consequences of wrongly employing an autotransformer in generation of low protective voltage
1. Protective measures against too high a contact voltage and conduct following electrical accidents Werner Boschitsch 1991
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Transformers single-phase transformer with iron core (if errors cannot be made, the core need not be drawn) single-phase transformer with iron-core and 3 windings (core not represented) three-phase transformer in star-star connection (core not represented) three-phase transformer, star-delta connection three-phase autotransformer in star connection
1. Selected Graphical Symbols of Electrotechnology Klaus Janoske 1991
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