Ghaderi Abbas, Mingotti Alessandro, Peretto Lorenzo, Tinarelli Roberto
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering-Guglielmo Marconi, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy.
Sensors (Basel). 2020 Aug 29;20(17):4889. doi: 10.3390/s20174889.
The instrument transformers scenario is moving towards the adoption of a new generation of low-power instrument transformers. This disruptive change also requires that the modeling, characterization, and testing of those devices must be improved. Therefore, this study focuses on a smart approach developed by the authors in a previous study to estimate the output of low-power voltage transformers (LPVT). The approach-which is based on a sort of modeling in the frequency domain (the so-called sinc-response)-allows obtaining the behavior of the LPVT at rated and distorted conditions. Experimental tests performed on off-the-shelf devices confirm the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed approach when estimating the output response of LPVTs.