What is the difference between Relay Type Voltage Stabilizer &

Servo Voltage Stabilizer?

Today, Voltage stabilizers have become mandatory for electrical equipment of

home, offices & industries. It helps to protect electrical equipment and
machine from over & under voltage and other voltage surges. Voltage
stabilizer delivers a constant voltage at its output terminals regardless of
changes in the input or incoming voltage. In the starting, manually operated
voltage stabilizers used to boost or buck the voltage. These manually
stabilizers ware built with electromechanical relays to give an output voltage
within a desired range.

Later on, additional electronic circuitry came in to the force and became tap
changer automatic voltage regulators. At present the latest technology of
voltage stabilizer is servo stabilizer in which voltage correction is carried
continuously. That can protect your appliances more effectively. Before we
point out the differences between relay type and servo voltage stabilizer, lets
have a look on type of technology used in voltage stabilizers. Through this we
can clearly notify you about features & components difference between both
types of voltage stabilizer.

1. Relay Type of Voltage Stabilizers:

In this type of stabilizer, electronic circuit and set of relays besides the
transformer, comprises rectifier circuit, controller unit and other tiny
components. The electronic circuit compares the output voltage with a
reference value provided by built-in reference voltage source. Whenever the
voltage rises or falls, the control circuit switches the corresponding relay to
connect a desired tapping to the output voltage. Relay types of voltage
stabilizers usually change the output voltage accuracy of 10 %. It is used for
low rating appliances in homes, offices and industries. Many electrical
equipment & machines are suffering with several limitations such as
unaspected performance, less durability, interruption to power path etc.
Therefore it helps to provide reliable voltage for protecting much equipment.
At the same time researcher has developed a latest technology called servo
controlled system to stabilize the voltage fluctuation rate very quickly. Lets
know the second and most popular technology used for stabilizing the voltage.

2. Servo Voltage Stabilizers:

In this stabilizer, a phase of buck boost transformer primary is connected to

the fixed tap of the auto transformer and other one connects with moving arm
which is controlled by the servo motor. Apart from it the buck boost
transformer primary of servo stabilizer gets connected in the series of
incoming voltage. These stabilizers called servo stabilizer because it uses a
servo motor to enable the voltage correction. It is mainly used for high output
voltage accuracy. Usually, 1 % with input voltage changes up to 50 %. It is
most popular for low high rating appliances used in homes, offices and
industries to provide correct voltage rate for protecting equipment and their
desired performance. Demand These stabilizers can be single-phase, three-
phase Oil cooled and Air cooled balanced unit type or three-phase unbalanced.
In a single phase servo stabilizer, motor coupled to the variable transformer
to achieve voltage correction. Meanwhile, in three-phase balanced type, a
servo motor is coupled with three auto transformers such that stabilized
output is provided during fluctuations by adjusting the output of the
transformers. Whereas in unbalanced servo stabilizers, there are three
independent servo motors coupled with three auto transformers.

If we compare servo stabilizers with relay type stabilizers we can find various
advantages of servo voltage stabilizer such as higher correction speed, high
precision of stabilized output, capable to withstand inrush currents and most
importantly the high reliability. We can highlight the different between both
types of voltage stabilizer are as follows:
Differences between a relay type of voltage stabilizer and servo voltage
stabilizer can easily find under given table:

Features Relay type of voltage Servo voltage stabilizer

stabilizer

Voltage output of 10 %. Output Voltage 1 % input

Accuracy voltage change up to 50 %.

Technology Relay Type Controlled by Servo Motor

Voltage Correcton in steps of of Stepless correction.

correction 20Volt 25Volt/second

[1]Models Only Air Cool Model Available in both, Air & oil
Available cool models, depend on
capacity also

Load Capacity Up to 10 KVA only Up to 5000KVA and above

as per the demand

Functioning Set of relays connected Buck-Boost transformer

criteria besides the transformer connected with a fixed tap