The detail of the artificial three phase transmission line built at the Electrotechnical Laboratory is fully described in this paper. The electrostatic and electromagnetic requirements to represent the three phase transmission line are discussed, special endevour was paid to fulfil the electromagnetic property to conform with the actual results of writer's two experiments.
The condensers representing the electrostatic capacity of the line, and the inductance coils representing the electromagnetic property of the lineare all constructed at the Laboratory, the detail of the condensers was already described in the January issue of this Joumal. The combination of condensers and inductance coils was carefully carried out to maintain the perfect balancing of each phase and the results were very satisfactory.
The whole line is consisted of hundred II sections, the equivalent length was measured to be 517.1 Kilometers, which can he used as two parallel lines of length 256.5 Kilometers and 258.6 Kilometers.
The line is capable of working at 5200 volts continuously at 50. cycles.
With a slight modification of connection, the artificial line can represent another line of different constants 329.8 Kilometers long, in the steady state as well as in the transient state. With the steady state only, this artificial line can represent another three phase line of 402.3 Kilometers with a furtherr slight modification of connection.
From the measured values of the line constants. the propagation constants were calculated and the voltage distribution along the line was worked out which agreed fairly well with the actual measurement.
In the appendix, the preliminary test performed on the flat inductance coils is described with a note on the actual cost of the artificial transmission line.
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