Special Transformers
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Special Transformers

Martech
Updated May 25, 2025

What you'll learn

  • How to identify the various types of special transformers and describe how they are used.
Course Description

 This lesson identifies the various types of special transformers and describe how they are used.

• Describe the use of a reactor in a circuit

• Identify the circumstances when you would use a choke in a circuit

• Explain why an isolation transformer is used to supply power to a variable speed drive

• Describe the windings in an autotransformer

• Compare the purposes of buck-boost transformers, potential transformers, and current transformers

• Identify a scenario where a control transformer is needed

• Identify an application that requires a K-Factor transformer