Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

Congratulations IDS on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Autotransformer

Thread starter Markr
Start date Jan 27, 2003

Status: Not open for further replies.

Jan 27, 2003

Markr

Electrical

I read the following quote about autotransformers. " Abnormal volatges may occur in three-phase wye connected autotransformers due to either line grounds, third harmonics or line transients "

What is the reason behind this and can this occur because of a loss of phase ?