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    MI Instruments

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    Moving iron instruments are used where ruggedness is more important than accuracy. They are used to measure both AC and DC. There are two types: attraction and repulsion. In attraction type instruments, a soft iron disc is eccentrically mounted in a coil. When the coil is excited, the disc is attracted inward due to the stronger magnetic field inside the coil. The repulsion type uses two vanes inside the coil that repel each other when excited. Controlling torque is provided by springs or weights, while damping is from air friction. Moving iron instruments have good accuracy and are cheaper than moving coil types, but consume more power.

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    Moving iron instruments are used where ruggedness is more important than accuracy. They are used to measure both AC and DC. There are two types: attraction and repulsion. In attraction type instruments, a soft iron disc is eccentrically mounted in a coil. When the coil is excited, the disc is attracted inward due to the stronger magnetic field inside the coil. The repulsion type uses two vanes inside the coil that repel each other when excited. Controlling torque is provided by springs or weights, while damping is from air friction. Moving iron instruments have good accuracy and are cheaper than moving coil types, but consume more power.

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    Moving iron instruments are used where ruggedness is more important than accuracy. They are used to measure both AC and DC. There are two types: attraction and repulsion. In attraction type instruments, a soft iron disc is eccentrically mounted in a coil. When the coil is excited, the disc is attracted inward due to the stronger magnetic field inside the coil. The repulsion type uses two vanes inside the coil that repel each other when excited. Controlling torque is provided by springs or weights, while damping is from air friction. Moving iron instruments have good accuracy and are cheaper than moving coil types, but consume more power.

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    MI Instruments

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    Srimathi Ramesh
    Moving iron instruments are used where ruggedness is more important than accuracy. They are used to measure both AC and DC. There are two types: attraction and repulsion. In attraction type instruments, a soft iron disc is eccentrically mounted in a coil. When the coil is excited, the disc is attracted inward due to the stronger magnetic field inside the coil. The repulsion type uses two vanes inside the coil that repel each other when excited. Controlling torque is provided by springs or weights, while damping is from air friction. Moving iron instruments have good accuracy and are cheaper than moving coil types, but consume more power.

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    MOVING IRON (MI) INSTRUMENTS

    Where ruggedness is more important than high degree of accuracy,


    moving iron instruments are used.
    Used for measurement of AC and DC
    • Types of moving iron instruments:
    1. Attraction type
    2. Repulsion type

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    PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
    • Construction of the attraction type moving iron
    instrument is as shown in the given figure.
    • The moving iron, i.e. the disc of soft iron, is
    eccentrically mounted. Coil is situated around the disc.
    When the coil is excited it produces magnetic field.
    • Due to magnetic field the moving iron moves from the
    weaker field outside the coil to the stronger field inside
    the coil. Thus moving iron gets attracted inwards and
    thus the name attraction type.
    Continued…
    • The controlling torque is provided by the balance weights attached to
    the moving iron. Spring also can be used to provide controlling torque.
    • Damping is provided by air friction in which aluminum piston is
    attached to the moving system and moves in a closed air damping
    chamber.
    ATTRACTION TYPE MOVING IRON INSTRUMENT

    Control Mechanism
    PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
    PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
    PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
    REPULSION TYPE MOVING IRON INSTRUMENT
    REPULSION TYPE MOVING IRON INSTRUMENT

    •In these type of instruments there two vanes present inside


    the coil in which one is fixed while other is movable. These
    both vanes gets similarly magnetized when coil is excited.
    Thus there is a force of repulsion between both vanes causing
    movement in movable vane.
    •The controlling torque is provided by the springs or
    balancing weights (in vertically mounted instrument). The
    damping is provided by air friction damping same as in
    attraction type moving iron instruments.
    ADVANTAGES

    1. Suitable of a.c. as well as d.c. measurements.


    2. Good accuracy.
    3. Cheaper in cost as compared to permanents magnet moving coil
    instruments.
    4. The instrument has high torque to weight ratio.
    5. The instrument can be used for low frequency measurement also.
    DISADVANTAGES

    1. Power consumed by the instrument is high as compared to that of


    the permanent magnet moving coil instrument.
    2. The scale is non-uniform.
    3. Due to the presence of iron part in the operating system, error due to
    the hysteresis effect is introduced. To reduce this effect nickel iron
    alloys are used.
    References
    • www.nptel.com
    • H.S.Kalsi “Electronic Instrumentation”
    • A.K.Sawhney “Electrical &Electronics Measurements and
    Instrumentation”

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