Implementation of a low cost distribution transformer monitoring system
The main electrical stations in Nellore owns and operates over 60,600 Distribution Transformers (DTs) and loses over 10,000 DTs annually either with major or minor problems. At present, manual calculations or peak load analysis scheme was using by the electrical board to determine the transformer load conditions and effect the load growth and transformer losses, which is a difficult task and doesn’t solve the problem of DT failure resulting from; load unbalance, over load, vandalism among others.