CURRENT TRANSFORMER DETAILS

Knee point voltage

The purpose of calculating knee point is to select CT with

operating point below knee point as above knee point CT
tends to saturate and cause mal operation of protection
relay. Knee point calculation is done for CTs used for
differential protection and REF.

RE: What is the purpose of calculating knee point volt...

The main purpose of calculating the knee point voltage is
to identify the core saturation characteristics .This is
mainly done on protection CT's

RE: What is the purpose of calculating knee point volt...

After knee point saturation of the CT occurs. Hence the
CT has to work below the knee point. By selecting a CT
suitably for operating point below the knee point proper
operation of the protection (like differential REF where
protection class CTs are used) can be ensured.

RE: What is the purpose of calculating knee point volt...

The purpose of calculating knee point is to select CT with
operating point below knee point as above knee point CT
tends to saturate and cause mal operation of protection
relay. Knee point calculation is done for CTs used for
differential protection and REF.

RE: What is the purpose of calculating knee point voltage

for Current transformers?
Purpose of collecting Knee voltage is to use the circuit as
an operating or as an metering circuit.
Operating circuit works far below knee voltage.
Metering circuit works at the verge of saturation.

Re: how to calculate knee point

voltage of current transformer?
Answ 10 % increase in voltage gives
er you 50 % increase in
# 1 excitation current is called
knee point voltage.
To measure this first
demagnetize the CT and apply
voltage gradually from
secondary keeping primary
winding open circuited. while
doing this above
phenomena will be observed.

Re: how to calculate knee point

voltage of current transformer?
Answ to calculate knee point voltage
er of current transformer by
# 2 formal
Vknee point = I
secandary(Rct+ Rcable+
Rburden)
where
Rct= resistance of current
transformer
Rcable =resistance of cable
=2Rcable
Rburden =burden of relay
 IF Vknee point< manufacture
voltage of current transformer
current transformer is good

IF Vknee point> manufacture

voltage of current transformer
current transformer must be
change

Re: how to calculate knee point voltage

of current transformer?
Answ The knee-point voltage will
er depend on the size and class of
# 5 the CT, and it can be very high
on some CTs (several
hundreds of volts) Be very
cautious, you will be working
on
live equipment during the test.

Now you can just plot the

current and voltage values on a
graph. This is the mag-curve of
the CT. IEC classify the
knee point voltage as the point
where a 10% increase in
voltage results in a 50%
increase in current.
Accuracy Rate

5P10, 10B50 and 0.5M5

P is designation for protection. 5P10 means that the CT
will have max of 5% inaccuracy when the current of 10
times reated current of CT is experienced.
M is designation for metering. 0.5M means that the CT
max inaccuracy is 0.5%
The ...B50 part is a meausre of the maximum burden the
CT can carry and still maintain accuracy.