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no-load loss

no-load loss

[′nō ¦lōd ′lȯs]
(electricity)
The power loss of a device that is operated at rated voltage and frequency but is not supplying power to a load.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The total active power loss of the network transformer includes the winding resistance loss and no-load loss of the transformer.
Harmonic Impact on Distribution Transformer No-Load Loss. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 57(1), 193- 200, (2010).
Kladas, Harmonic Impact on Distribution Transformer No-Load Loss,IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 57(1), 193-200, (2010).
Experiments show that the values of no-load losses are most affected.
Its "sleep feature" smartly disconnects transformers at night, eliminating no-load losses which can provide customers US$800,000[sup.3] of savings over the lifetime of a 100MW solar plant.
The parallel resistance is estimated via no load test with presumption that entire no-load losses are dominantly due to the iron losses [12].
No-load losses can be approximately estimated, multiplying the total no-load losses of transformers by average service hours.
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