why is the rating of transformer done in kva and not in kw.

Answer Posted / vasumalai madhavan

In transfomer, the core loss depends upon voltage and
copperloss depends on current , it was (transoformer) not
dependable on power factor . thats why the rating of the
transformer always in kva not in kw....

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