How are power transformers rated?
• Difference between power (kW) and apparent power (kVA) • How transformers handle voltage and current regardless of power factor • Why transformer nameplates list a value that does NOT depend on load power factor
• Is a transformer concerned with real power delivered to the load, or with voltage and current it must safely carry? • Which unit describes apparent power (volts × amps) instead of real power? • Look at the choice formats: which one is a standard electrical engineering unit you’d actually see on a transformer nameplate?
• Identify which option represents apparent power, not real power • Eliminate any options that are not standard electrical units used in practice • Ask yourself: which unit would stay the same even if the power factor of the load changes?
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