Sunday, January 5, 2014

What is meaning of 5P20 in Current Transformer(CT)?

CT's are categorized as Protection CT, Special Protection
CT and Measuring CT. Based on this, the CT's are  classified. Here is the meaning of the CT classes:

Class 5P20:

The letter 'P' indicates it is a protection CT.

The number 5 indicates the accuracy of the CT. Most common  accuracy numbers are 5 and 10.

The number 20 (called accuracy limit factor) indicates that  the CT will sense the current with the specified accuracy  even with 20 times of its secondary current flows in the  secondary. This is required for protection CT, because the  fault current is high and the CT should be able to sense  the high fault current accurately to protect the system.  The common numbers are 10, 15, 20 and 30.





Class PS:

PS is for 'Protection Special'. This class of CT's are used  for special protection such as differential protection,  distance protection etc.

Class 1M:

The letter 'M' indicates it is a measuring CT.

The number 1 indicated the accuracy of the CT. The  measuring CT's should be more accurate than the protection  CT. The most common accuracy numbers are 0.5 and 1.

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