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Droop CT

Droop current transformers (CTs) are used by automatic voltage regulators (AVRs) to maintain the reactive power output of a generator by sensing the generator's phase current and providing feedback to the AVR. The AVR then controls the generator's excitation current to adjust the reactive power production higher or lower based on the droop CT's feedback. Droop CTs allow the power factor of the generator to be adjusted by changing the excitation current reference, thereby increasing or decreasing the reactive power output as needed.

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Droop CT

Droop current transformers (CTs) are used by automatic voltage regulators (AVRs) to maintain the reactive power output of a generator by sensing the generator's phase current and providing feedback to the AVR. The AVR then controls the generator's excitation current to adjust the reactive power production higher or lower based on the droop CT's feedback. Droop CTs allow the power factor of the generator to be adjusted by changing the excitation current reference, thereby increasing or decreasing the reactive power output as needed.

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Droop CT

Droop Current transformer is used to maintain the reactive power of the generator.
Droop CTs are ordinary current transformer which is used only for AVR. AVR controls
the reactive power of the generator with the help of Droop CT. At the same time the
power factor can be adjusted with the help of droop CT reference only. This adjustment
is performed by adjusting excitation current of the generator. When you increase the
excitation current to the generator, which generates more reactive power and When you
decrease the excitation current the generator produces less reactive power vice versa.

The drooping function in AVR is called as constant power factor mode. That’s why
during home island mode of the generator these functions has been disabled
automatically with the help of AVR. Generally, it will be installed at Yph (center phase)
of the alternator. While installing the droop current transformer the secondary winding
terminals are sometimes referred to as S1 and S2, and the primary as P1 and P2,
respectively.
Droop CT Droop current transformer

Refer the figure. The Droop CT1 sense the phase current of the alternator/generator
which send the output current to the automated voltage regulator unit (AVR). The AVR
generators respective excitation current to the generator.

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