# Questions & Answers of Electrical and Electronic Measurements

#### Topics of Electrical and Electronic Measurements 41 Question(s) | Weightage 05 (Marks)

Question No. 164

An energy meter, having meter constant of 1200 revolutions/kWh, makes 20 revolutions in 30 seconds for a constant load. The load, in kW, is _____________.

Question No. 15

When the Wheatstone bridge shown is used to find value of resistance the Galvanometer G indicates zero current when ${R}_{1}=50\mathrm{\Omega }$, ${R}_{2}=65\mathrm{\Omega }$ and ${R}_{3}=100\mathrm{\mathrm{\Omega }}$. If is known with $±5%$ tolerance on its nominal value of 100$\mathrm{\Omega }$, what is tha range of ${R}_{X}$ in Ohms?

Question No. 16

A (0-50 A) moving coil ammeter has a voltage drop of 0.1 V across its terminals at full scale deflection. The external shunt resistance (in milliohms) needed to extend its range to (0-500 A) is ________.

Question No. 40

An unbalanced DC Wheatstone bridge is shown in the figure. At what value of p will the magnitude of V0 be maximum?

Question No. 115

Match the following:

 Instrument Type Used for P. Permanent magnet moving coil 1. DC only Q. Moving iron connected through current transformer 2. AC only R. Rectifier 3.AC and DC S. Electrodynamometer

Question No. 116

A 3-phase balanced load which has a power factor of 0.707 is connected to balanced supply. The power consumed by the load is 5 kW. The power is measured by the two wattmeter method. The readings of the two wattmeters are

Question No. 117

A capacitive voltage divider is used to measure the bus voltage ${V}_{bus}$ in a high-voltage 50 Hz AC system as shown in the figure. The measurement capacitor ${C}_{1}$ and ${C}_{2}$ have tolerances of $±10$% on their normal capacitance values. If the bus voltage is 100 kV rms, the maximum rms output voltage ${V}_{\mathrm{out}}$(in kV), considering toleance , is _____________.

Question No. 140

The coils of a wattmeter have resistances 0.01$\mathrm{\Omega }$ and 1000$\mathrm{\Omega }$; their inductances may be neglected. The wattmeter is connected as shown in the figure, to measure the power consumed by a load, which draws 25A at power factor 0.8. The voltage across the load terminals is 30V. The percentage error on the wattmeter reading is _________.

Question No. 29

Power consumed by a balanced 3-phase, 3-wire load is measured by the two wattmeter method. The first wattmeter reads twice that of the second. Then the load impedance angle in radians is

Question No. 30

In an oscilloscope screen, linear sweep is applied at the

Question No. 57

The reading of the voltmeter (rms) in volts, for the circuit shown in the figure is __________

Question No. 58

The dc current flowing in a circuit is measured by two ammeters, one PMMC and another electrodynamometer type, connected in series. The PMMC meter contains 100 turns in the coil, the flux density in the air gap is 0.2 Wb/m2, and the area of the coil is 80 mm2. The electrodynamometer ammeter has a change in mutual inductance with respect to deflection of 0.5 mH/deg. The spring constants of both the meters are equal. The value of current, at which the deflections of the two meters are same, is ________

Question No. 129

The saw-tooth voltage waveform shown in the figure is fed to a moving iron voltmeter. Its reading would be close to _____________

Question No. 130

While measuring power of a three-phase balanced load by the two-wattmeter method, the readings are 100 W and 250 W. The power factor of the load is _________.

Question No. 157

Suppose that resistors R1 and R2 are connected in parallel to give an equivalent resistor R. If resistors R1 and R2 have tolerance of 1% each, the equivalent resistor R for resistors R1 =300 Ω and R2= 200 Ω will have tolerance of

Question No. 158

Two ammeters X and Y have resistances of 1.2 Ω and 1.5 Ω respectively and they give full-scale deflection with 150 mA and 250 mA respectively. The ranges have been extended by connecting shunts so as to give full scale deflection with 15 A. The ammeters along with shunts are connected in parallel and then placed in a circuit in which the total current flowing is 15A. The current in amperes indicated in ammeter X is __________.

Question No. 229

An LPF wattmeter of power factor 0.2 is having three voltage settings 300 V, 150 V and 75 V, and two current settings 5 A and 10 A. The full scale reading is 150. If the wattmeter is used with 150 V voltage setting and 10 A current setting, the multiplying factor of the wattmeter is _________.

Question No. 230

The two signals S1 and S2, shown in figure, are applied to Y and X deflection plates of an oscilloscope

The waveform displayed on the screen is

Question No. 257

A periodic waveform observed across a load is represented by

$V\left(t\right)=\left\{\begin{array}{ll}1+\mathrm{sin}\omega t& 0\le \omega t<6\mathrm{\pi }\\ -1+\mathrm{sin}\omega t& 6\mathrm{\pi }\le \mathrm{\omega }\mathrm{t}<12\mathrm{\pi }\end{array}\right\$

The measured value, using moving iron voltmeter connected across the load, is

Question No. 258

In the bridge circuit shown, the capacitors are loss free. At balance, the value of capacitance C1 in microfarad is _________.

Question No. 14

The input impedance of the permanent magnet moving coil (PMMC) voltmeter is infinite. Assuming that the diode shown in the figure below is ideal, the reading of the voltmeter in Volts is

Question No. 26

A strain gauge forms one arm of the bridge shown in the figure below and has a nominal resistance without any load as Rs = 300 $\mathrm{\Omega }$. Other bridge resistances are R1 = R2 = R3 = 300 $\mathrm{\Omega }$. The maximum permissible current through the strain gauge is 20 mA. During certain measurement when the bridge is excited by maximum permissible voltage and the strain gauge resistance is increased by 1% over the nominal value, the output voltage V0 in mV is

Question No. 12

A periodic voltage waveform observed on an oscilloscope across a load is shown. A permanent magnet moving coil (PMMC) meter connected across the same load reads

Question No. 13

The bridge method commonly used for finding mutual inductance is

Question No. 25

For the circuit shown in the figure, the voltage and current expressions are

$v\left(t\right)={E}_{1}\mathrm{sin}\left(\omega t\right)+{E}_{3}\mathrm{sin}\left(3\omega t\right)$ and $i\left(t\right)={I}_{1}\mathrm{sin}\left(\omega t-{\Phi }_{1}\right)+{I}_{3}\mathrm{sin}\left(3\omega t-{\Phi }_{3}\right)+{I}_{5}\mathrm{sin}\left(5\omega t\right)$

The average power measured by the Wattmeter is

Question No. 45

An analog voltmeter uses external multiplier settings. With a multiplier setting of 20 kΩ, it reads 440 V and with a multiplier setting of 80 kΩ, it reads 352 V. For a multiplier setting of 40 kΩ, the voltmeter reads

Question No. 10

Consider the following statement
(i) The compensating coil of a low power factor wattmeter compensates the effect of the impedance of the current coil.
(ii) The compensating coil of a low power factor wattmeter compensates the effect of the impedance of the voltage coil circuit.

Question No. 22

The bridge circuit shown in the figure below is used for the measurement of an unknown element ZX. The bridge circuit is best suited when ZX is a

Question No. 23

A dual trace oscilloscope is set to operate in the ALTernate mode. The control input of the multiplexer used in the y-circuit is fed with a signal having a frequency equal to

Question No. 43

A $41}{2}$ digit DMM has the error specification as: 0.2% of reading + 10 counts. If a dc voltage of 100 V is read on its 200 V full scale, the maximum error that can be expected in the reading is

Question No. 8

A wattmeter is connected as shown in the figure. The wattmeter reads

Question No. 9

An ammeter has a current range of 0 - 5 A, and its internal resistance is 0.2Ω. In order to change the range to 0 - 25 A, we need to add a resistance of

Question No. 35

The Maxwell's bridge shown in the figure is at balance. The parameters of the inductive coil are

Question No. 1

The pressure coil of a dynamometer type wattmeter is

Question No. 4

The two inputs of a CRO are fed with two stationary periodic signals. In the X-Y mode, the screen shows a figure which changes from ellipse to circle and back to ellipse with its major axis changing orientation slowly and repeatedly. The following inference can be made from this.

Question No. 48

The figure shows a three-phase delta connected load supplied from a 400V, 50 Hz, 3-phase balanced source. The pressure coil (PC) and current coil (CC) of a wattmeter are connected to the load as shown, with the coil polarities suitably selected to ensure a positive deflection. The wattmeter reading will be

Question No. 49

Question No. 9

Two 8-bit ADCs, one of single slope integrating type and other of successive approximation type, take TA  and TB times to convert 5 V analog input signal to equivalent digital output. If the input analog signal is reduced to 2.5 V, the approximate time taken by the two ADCs will respectively, be

Question No. 69

Two sinusoidal signals p(ω1t) = A sinω1t and q(ω2t) are applied to X and Y inputs of a dual channel CRO. The Lissajous figure displayed on the screen shown below :

The signal q(ω2t) will be represented as