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FEB Tubelight Stator and Choke

khurshid11 Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
04 What is the use of stator and choke in tubelight?
2011
G.Harish
Nov 18th, 2016
11:57 AM
It gives initial current to bulb

rohansharma
4451 Mar 25th, 2011
Views
Choke Coil : for producing a very high voltage
across the terminals of Tube Light.Starter : It
2
Ans applies that high voltage suddenly to the tube light
laments, which makes ionisation of the gases in
the light.

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NOV Overall Power Factor of a Panel.

Balakrishnan Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
07 In a panel, I have following loads with respective power
2016 factor,
load A - 0.85
load B - 0.8
03:24 AM
Load C - 0.9
How to calculate the Overall power factor of the panel,
whether I have to take average or I have to consider the
439 lowest?
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murugan
Nov 16th, 2016

Average(.85+.80+.90)3=0.85 is answer

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FEB Electric Voltage AC

D M Parmar Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
18 for 3 phase AC supply Frequency= 50Hz, V =440 between 2
2015 phase; then V = ? between phase and netural.

Srinivasan
03:31 AM Nov 15th, 2016

230

8311 abdurrazzaq
Views Nov 14th, 2016
220v
18
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OCT Synchronous Generator Life Time

boris Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
24 Is a synchronous generator running a constant load has a
2016 longer lifetime than a generator running a variable load? If
yes why?

04:51 PM Chandan dubey

Nov 11th, 2016
It can be run but in practical there is necessary to
596 change it. So if change in load in other gen. Will
Views result change in current and load angle (angle
between Sand v) and also change in active power,
1 for which it will be need to arrange frequency
Ans regulating equipment, so overall cost will increase.

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AUG Why stones are used in switch yard ?

pankaj rawal Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
14
2011

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Chisata bwalya
18424 Nov 11th, 2016
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To reduce step & touch potential

19
Ans mazhar khan
Oct 31st, 2016

1) Not to grow unwanted plant

2) Wetness are minimized
3) Snakes and other reptile not easily move on
gravel

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MAY Why the suply frequency in INDIA is

50HZ
25 paulson Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
2006
Sushil
Oct 31st, 2016
03:52 AM
Frequency is constant in a grid is because 1) All
Equipment are designed for 50hz. Frequency 2)
We genrate 50hz. 230 volts so in India all
44795
generation plant are 50hz. 3) All grid are inter-
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conected s...

30
Ans krushna ch nayak
Sep 4th, 2015

Frequency is directly dependent upon the pole &

speed of the turbine
we know -N=120f/p
& F=NP/120

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OCT Step-Up Transformer Power

Generation
05 SHUBHANSHU TIWARI
Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
2016
How much of power can I generate before connecting it to
05:58 AM step up transformer presently?

Chand
Nov 3rd, 2016

883 We can generate 11 kv

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OCT What is Synchronous condenser ?

mehdi Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
18
gagan.bhatia
2007
Oct 25th, 2016

In electrical engineering, a synchronous condenser

01:40 PM
(sometimes called a synchronous capacitor or
synchronous compensator) is a device identical to
a synchronous motor, whose shaft is not
12422 connected to anything but spins freely.
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romeo vincent
6 Oct 17th, 2016
Ans
What is the advantage of capacitor used in ballast
for discharge lamp?

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MAR What happens if dc supply is given

to a transformer?
13 siva.k Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
2013
SP SINGH
Oct 9th, 2016
06:51 AM
DC having 0 frequency so transformer coil will
behave like a short circuit having very low
resistance so huge current ow and transformer
87973
winding will burn.
Views
mukesh mahilange
36
Ans Oct 3rd, 2016

If a DC suppy is given to a transformer than the

primary will draw more current which may result in
burning of winding (f=2fL, f= 0) due to small
reactance & may cause core saturation

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JUN Why power factor using cos theta

angle ?
12 manoranjan_panda
Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
2011

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Srinath
10227 Oct 6th, 2016
Views
Can you elaborate the reason why we have cos
angle for active power and sine angle for reactive
6
power?
Ans

ABC
Sep 4th, 2011

Bcz in impedence triangle(cos=b/h) R(resistance) is

in the base and imepedence is hypotaneous.
power factor(cos )=R/Z. THATS WY WE are using
cos in the power factor notation.

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SEP What is the function of a choke in

tube light?
21 kumar Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
2007
mUzammil
Oct 7th, 2016
10:00 AM
Tube light needed 1000v for ionization process for
starting so choke provided its.

42556
Views Jitendra Gupta
Aug 20th, 2016

17 Tube light needs high voltage for starting & choke

Ans provides high voltage required for ionization inside
tube light.

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OCT Variable Frequency Passed through

Transformer
06 susheel Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
2016 1) What does active, reactive and apparent means
practically?
07:11 AM 2) What happens when variable frequency is passed
through transformer?

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SEP Load Increases when Power

Generation is Constant
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What happens if load increases when the generation is
2016
constant?

10:51 AM vivek
Sep 30th, 2016

Frequency of power generation gets down.

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SEP Improve Power Quality

A.Rajasekharreddy
13 Electrical Engineering Interview Questions

2016 Night time load on our system street lights, one DG

battery charger-24v, 6 KVA UPS. On UPS only 12v solar
fencing battery. You are suering from leading pf. Can you
12:53 AM say how to improve pf?

vivek
Sep 30th, 2016
1294
Views By shutting down the capacitor bank.

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SEP Form Factor

r singh Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
17 What is the physically meaning of form factor?
2016
amit gupta
Sep 29th, 2016
06:30 AM
Form Factor = R.M.S. Value / Average Value = 1.11


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SEP High Power Generation Low

Demand
19 Sourav Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
2016 What happens to extra power, if at an instant generated
power is 10000 MW but demand is 8000 MW?
10:53 AM

1301
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G. Gray
Sep 28th, 2016

The so called "extra" power is dissipated

throughout the systems often in loses such as
heat etc.

prayag c nambiar
Sep 26th, 2016

The extra power generated gets distributed

through the grid it is connected.

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MAY Why we use only sine wave instead

of cosine, triangular, rectangular
03 waves to represent electrical
2011
quantities?
guthajimmy Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
07:40 AM
adnan
Sep 27th, 2016
5668 The emf induced at power plants is sinusoidal AC,
Views so it is not because of our choice. It is the natural
simplest AC waveform that we obtain.
3
Ans
Neha bisen
Sep 24th, 2016

Sine wave forms we can indicate the maximum

and minimum amplitude and its variation with
respect to time.

RMS value of sine wave is more than the other

wave like square, triangular etc.

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MAY AIR GAP

Amritesh Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
21 What is the role of air gap in any electrical machine how
2015 does it aects induce emf??

09:44 PM

8422
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A.Rajasekharreddy
Sep 13th, 2016

Air gap is used to produce magnetic ux between

stator and rotor. Air gap is more uniform for the
production of sinusoidal EMF in alternators to
eliminate the harmonics. Air gap is more in syn
machin...

NITIN
Aug 10th, 2016

Airgap is used to produce magnetic eld between

stator and rotor. Flux is produce in rotor winding,
then torque develop and rotor is rotating, but if air
gap is more between stator and rotor then more
magnetizing current is required and also loss is
more.

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AUG Explain about brush and brushless

alternators ?
18 Lawrence Didy Ebirim
Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
2011

A.Rajasekharreddy
06:32 PM Sep 13th, 2016

Brush less alternator is nothing but stationary

armature, Brush alternator is a rotating armature.
24895
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Shan
Aug 24th, 2016
11
Ans Is there a exciting stator in brushed generator? If
not what is the reason?


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FEB What is main function of capacitor in

single phase induction motor?
22 krunal prajapati
Electrical Engineering Interview Questions
2013

10:34 PM

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manoj yadav
Sep 1st, 2016

Capacitors provide phase dierence between

voltage and current and give starting torque

Taif
Aug 27th, 2016

In single phase induction motors to create phase

dierence as result of high starting torque
capacitor used due to single phase induction
motor is not self starting.

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