A New Method for Power Current Measurement Using a Coreless Hall Effect Current Transformer
- 24 May 2010
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
- Vol. 60 (1), 158-169
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2010.2049234
Abstract
A new method for performing power current measurement is proposed; this method involves the use of Hall sensors without iron cores. A new apparatus for implementing this method, called coreless Hall-effect current transformer (HCT), has been developed. The HCT consists of four Hall sensors connected to a weighted adder. Four Hall sensors are symmetrically attached to an electric conducting cable, and the output of the sensors is connected to the weighted adder. The weighted adder performs the “average” operation, thereby obtaining the average voltage. Since the average Hall voltage is obtained, the HCT can eliminate the ambient interference. A measurement framework is designed and implemented to compare a series of waveforms obtained by HCTs with those measured by traditional current transformers (CTs) and linear CTs. Current measurement results show that an HCT can measure current with greater accuracy than traditional CTs. Moreover, in the presence of faults, HCTs do not encounter problems related to saturation that exist in traditional CTs.Keywords
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