EE – Refresher #7

INSTRUCTION: select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by
shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURE ALLOWED.
USE PENCIL NO. 1 ONLY.

MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. To test the accuracy of a kilowatt hour meter an election used a wattmeter. He found out that the meter makes
5 revolutions in 18 seconds. The meter constant is 3.2. What is the percent error if the wattmeter reading is
3,368?
A. 8 % B. 8% faster C. 5 % slower D. 5 % slower
2. A 100 MW power plant burns kg of coal with heating value of 7.2 x 106 calories per kg to produce 1 KWH. If the
power plant acts as a base load, how many tons of coal per day is consumed if the power plant operates 24
hours per day?
A. 530 B. 960 C. 830 D. 260
3. In hydroelectric power plant, it is used to prevent the sudden rise and drop of water pressure.
A. Penstock B. intake tower C. dam D. surge tank
4. An amplifier has an output of 50 watts. What is its output in dB?
A. 47 B. 50 C. 75 D. 80
5. How is the storage battery rated in capacity?
A. Volts B. Amperes C. watts D. ampere-hour
6. The basis where the flow of current is from positive to negative was derived from__________.
A. Superstition B. Tradition C. scientific D. convention
7. A 220 volts dc series motor when running at 800 rpm draws a current of 100 amperes. The combined resistance
of the armature and the field is 0.1 Ω. What is the speed when the motor develops one-half of the original
torque?
A. 1,600 rpm B. 1, 690 rpm C. 1.174 rpm D. 1.225 rpm
8. The fault current that exist immediately after the fault ids known as:
A. Sub-transient B. Transient current C. steady-state current D. sustained current
9. The following are given load of a particular circuit:
5 – 15 HP motors 3- 5 HP motors
8 KW – lightning loads 3.5 KW – miscellaneous loads
Calculate for the maximum demand if the demand factor is 65%.
A. 78.64 B. 45.81 C. 51.12 D. 120.98
10. An SCR’s three leads are the:
A. Anode, cathode and emitter C. Base 1 and base 2 and emitter
B. Anode, cathode and gate D. main terminal 1, main terminal 2, and gate
11. Its primary function is to provide ground source.
A. Zig-zag transformer B. Sectionalizer C. surge arrester D. tertiary transformer
12. A 20 KV/7.87 KV autotransformer has a secondary line current of 100 A. what is the current in the common
winding?
A. 139.25 A B. 100 A C. 60.65 A D. 39.35 A
13. A 220 volts single –phase induction motor draws current of 10 amperes and 0.75 power factors. A capacitor of
50 -µF is connected in order to improve the power factor. What is the new power factor?
A. 0.866 leading B. . 0.866 lagging C. 0.95 lagging D. 0.96 leading
14. A 3ɸ 220 volts, 10-hp induction motor having a power factor of 0.8 has 3 % losses. Determine the current drawn
by the motor.
A. 25.23 A B. 43.69 A C. 20.18 A D. 14.56 A
15. A solenoid having an inductance of 12-henry is impressed across a voltage source such that the current through
it is 3 amperes. What is the average voltage at t = 0.2 sec?
A. 150 volts B. 180 volts C. 120 volts D. 220 volts
16. An electric heater takes 23.889 kcal in 20 minutes at 200 volts. What is the current drawn by the heater?
A. 8.4 A B. 16.67 A C. 1.67 A D. 0.42 A
17. A series RLC circuit has a resistance of 15 Ω and an inductive reactance of 1,500 Ω. What is the Q-factor of the
circuit at resonance?
A. 120 B. 100 C. 140 D. 150

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18. A synchronous motor that is used for power factor correction only.
A. Synchronous reactor B. Alternator C. generator D. synchronous condenser
19. Why are the transmission towers sometimes constructed in lattice type and sometimes on pole type although
they have the same capacity and voltage rating?
A. Realiablity B. Wind load C. right of way D. safety
20. The capacitive reactance of the transmission line is 90, 000 ohms per kilometer. Find the total capacitive
reactance if the transmission line is 50-km long.
A. 4.5 x 106 Ω B. 1,800 Ω C. 90,000 Ω D. 180,00 Ω
21. An 80 µF capacitor in series with a 1,000 Ω resistor is connected suddenly across a 110 v supply. Find the rate at
which current begins to decrease.
A. 13.75 A/s B. 0.1375 A/s C. 1.375 A/s D. 137.5 A/s
22. A 100 watts 230 V gas fitted lamp has a mean spherical candlepower of 92. Find its efficiency in lumens per watt.
A. 11.56 B. 1.156 C. 115.6 D. 1,156
23. With the primary of CT energized, the secondary must never be made to prevent this to happen.
A. build up of magnetic bias C. burning of secondary winding
B. burning of primary winding D. absence of induced voltage
24. A 25 miles (40 km), 3ɸ, 3-wire sub-transmission line with an impedance per conductor of 7.65 + j16.52 Ω is
supplying a balanced 3ɸ load of 4,000 KW, 33, 500 volts line to line, 60 Hz at 0.8 p.f. lagging. The conductors
used in the line are 336.4 MCM, ACSR, 26/7 strands vertically spaced 4.5 ft. apart. If a 2100 KVAR, 3ɸ pure
capacitor bank is installed across the load, what is the voltage dip maintaining 33,500 volts at the receiving end?
A. 735 v B. 635 v C. 585 v D. 485 v
25. A symmetrical cable with 200 meters span has a unit weight of 2 kg-force per meter uniformly distributed along
the horizontal. The tension at the lowest point is 2,000 kg-force. Find the tension at the supports in kg-force.
A. 2,010 B. 2,040 C. 4.080 D. 2,000
26. A 69 KV/13.8 KV, 7.5 MVA transformer has 8% impedance at 100 MVA base?
A. 0.6% B. 8% C. 800% D. 106.7%
27. A dc current of 50 amperes flow through a long straight conductor. Determine the force on a magnetic pole of 50
unit pole strength placed 5 cm from the conductor.
A. 100 dynes B. 1000 dynes C. 100 π dynes D. 200 dynes
28. The load on a three phase wye connected 220-V system consist of three 6-Ω resistances connected in wye and in
parallel with three 9-Ω resistances connected delta. The magnitude of the line current is
A. 36.66 A B. 24.44 A C. 42.34 A D. 63.50 A
29. On a symmetrical 3ɸ system, phase sequence ABC, a capacitive reactance of 8Ω is connected across BC, and a
coil R + jXL across AB. Find R and XL such that IB = 0.
A. 4Ω & 6.93 Ω B. 69.3Ω & 4Ω C. 6.93Ω & 4Ω D. 4Ω & 69.3Ω
30. Three unbalanced 3ɸ line voltages are given as follows:
VA = 10 cis 30 VB = 30 cis (-60) VC = 15 cis 145
What is the negative sequence component of line voltage VC?
A. 8.24 cis ( -156.2) B. 8.24 cis ( -36.2) C. 8.24 cis (-276.2) D. 0
31. A 350 KW, 2,300 V, three-phase resistive load is measured with two small watt-meters. Two 100/5 A current
transformers and two 2,300/115 potential transformers makes this possible. the reading of each wattmeter in
watts is
A. 505 B. 437 C. 450 D. 473
32. A 440-V, 70-HP shunt motor has an armature of 0.185Ω and field resistance of 350Ω. The current drawn by this
machine is 135 A at full load. If this machine is to deliver torque equal to 175 percent of that full-load, what
would be the resistance of its starter?
A. 2 Ω B. 1.2 Ω C. 1.695 Ω D. 5.6 Ω
33. The flux density emanating from a pole of a generator is 20,000 gauss. A conductor one meter long cuts the flux
perpendicularly at a speed of 40 m per second. What voltage is developed?
A.800 volts B. 80 volts C. 230 volts D. 8 volts
34. The resistance of the field winding a dc machine is 0.25Ω at 25O C. when operating at full-load, the temperature
of the winding is 75O C. the temperature coefficient of copper is 0.00427/OC at 0 OC. find the resistance of the
field winding at full-load.
A. 0.298 Ω B. 0.315 Ω C. 0.512 Ω D. 0.271 Ω

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35. The capacitive reactance of a 40 km 34.5 KV line is 90kΩ /km. what is the total capacitive reactance of the line?
A. 2250 Ω B. 1.08 x107 Ω C. 6750 Ω D. 3.6 x 106 Ω
36. A 5 km long, three phase 34.5 KV line has horizontal configuration of 4 ft spacing. The conductors are 336.4 ACSR
with GMR of 0.0244 ft. what is the inductance of the line?
A. 5.33 mH B. 15.12 mH C. 10.22 mH D. 12.02 mH
37. Three unbalanced 3Ø line currents are:
Ia = 10 cis (-30) Ib = 0 Ic = 10 cis 150
What is the phase b positive sequence current?
A. 8.66 B. 5.77 cis 240 C. 5.77 D. 8.66 cis120
38. A certain generator generates 1,500,000 joules per minute. What is the output in KW?
A. 50 B. 500 C. 25 D. 125
39. A 3-phase bank serves four costumer with the following loads:
Customer A = 80 KW at 65% p.f. Customer B = 60 KW at 85% p.f.
Customer C = 100 KW at 90% p.f. Customer D = 120 KW at 70% p.f.
What is the equivalent power factor?
A. 82.16% B. 79.21% C. 76.66% D. 84.37%
40. Two voltage generators are in series. The voltages being generated are Vab = 50 sin (ωt -30O) and Vbc = 100 sin
(ωt + 60O). What is the output voltage Vac?
A. 111.83 cis 33.5° B. 50 cis 30° C. 145.5 cis 50.1° D. 150 cis 30°
41. A short 230 KV transmission line has an impedance of 5 cis 78 ohms. The sending end power is 100 MW at 230
KV and 85% power factor. What is the line loss?
A. 1.21 MW B. 728 KW C. 962 KW D. 272 KW
42. A 25-KVA, 550/220 V transformer has a rated copper loss of 350 watts. With the low voltage winding shorted it
requires 25 V across the high voltage winding to permit rated current through both windings of the transformer.
The percent reactance of the transformer is
A. 5.72 B. 1.4 C. 4.54 D. 4.32
43. A 5,000 KVA transformer has a rated copper loss of 30, 118 watts. The maximum demand ion the bank within
the past year was 81% of the rated capacity and the loss factor was 26.75%. What was the total annual copper
energy loss in the bank?
A. 57,120 KWHR B. 213,700 KWHR C. 46,300 KWHR D. 173,000 KWHR
44. Three (3), 1Ø, 75-KVA transformers are banked in delta supplying a balanced three-phase load of 160 KVA at 0.8
p.f. lagging. If one transformer is removed for repair, what is the minimum amount in KVAR of capacitor bank
needed to prevent the overloading of the remaining units?
A. 86.73 B. 96 C. 63.78 D. 73.86
45. A 6-pole, 50 HZ. Three-phase induction motor is running at 950 rpm and has a rotor copper loss of 5 KW. The
rotor input in KW is______
A. 100 B. 105 C. 95 D. 110
46. A synchronous motor absorbing 60 KW is connected in parallel with a load 240 KW having a lagging p.f. of 0.8. If
the combined loads have p.f. of 0.9 lagging, what is the value of leading KVAR supplied by the motor?
A. 145.4 B. 180 C. 17.3 D. 34.6
47. A 60-HZ, three-phase 100-mile transmission line draws a charging current of 0.5 A. per mile when the line is
tested at 100,000V to neutral. The total capacitive susceptance of the line is nearest to
A. 5 x 10-4 mho B. 8.66 x 10-4 mho C. 5 x 10-6 mho D. 2.9 x 10-4 mho
48. A generating station has a mad of 20 MW for the year and the maximum loads on the substations are 7.5 MW. 6
MW, 5.5 MW and 4.5 MW. The diversity factor is ___.
A. 1 B. 1.5 C. 1.175 D. 1.75
49. A room 8 m x 12 m is lighted by 15 lamps to fairly uniform illumination of 100 limens per sq. meter. What is the
coefficient of utilization if the output of each lamp is 1,600 limens?
A. 30% B. 40% C. 50% D. 60%
50. A 5 mH pure inductance is connected in parallel with one µF capacitor. What frequency shall the circuit be in
antiresonance?
A. 250 HZ B. 2250 HZ C. 60 HZ D. 100 HZ

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