COMMONLY ASKED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS(BANK) ON

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Q1 What are the applications of potential transformers . Compare Potential Transformer with
Power transformer .
Q2 What can be the possible causes of Vibration in HT motors?
Q3 What is the processing of power plant and what are the equipment used for coal handling
power plant?
Q4 What is dielectric strength?
Q5 What is the use of stator and choke in tubelight?
Q6 What is harmonics?
Q7 What is meaning by the SKIN effect in electrical circuits ?
Q8 What is the power ratio between power in Star and Delta circuit?
Q9 What are the reasons for power supply frequency in India to be 50 Hz and in US to be 60 Hz
Q10 Why transformer does not rotate like induction motor. In spite both having same principle?
Q11 Why we use only sine wave instead of cosine, triangular, rectangular waves to represent
electrical quantities?
Q12 What do you mean power factor ? Why it is important in electric circuit ?
Q13 When we touch the line wire or supply wire we get shock. What is that? Is it voltage or
current or something else?
Q14 What is a Transducer?
Q15 Why condensers are used in fans?
Q16 In a three phase system three wires are of colour red, yellow and blue are used to
discriminate each phase. Now how will you identify each phase wire without knowing the
colour and without any pre information?
Q17 Why almost all large size synchronous machines are constructed with rotating field system
type?
Q18 For an 100kw generator, only 50kw of load is connected. will the generator generate only
 50kw or 100kw. if it generate 100kw what happens to rest of the 50kw. What happens if we
connect more than 100kw of load?
Q19 Why the transformer will burn if DC supply is given?\
Q20 How do we select a cable for a machine as per standards. Is there is any standard to select a
cable as per voltage, or as per KVA and as per amps ratings?

Q21 What is the voltage that is supplied to the electric traction trains ?
Q22 In a 50Hz electrical machine what happens when we use more than or less than 50Hz?
Q23 What is the reason of power development in synchronous generator due to saliency ?
Q24 How 100 MVA Transformer cooled?
Q25 What is slip power and slip recovery in case induction machine ?
Q26 What are integrating instruments?
Q27 Differentiate MC and MI instruments
Q28 How do you convert fixed ac to variable ac?
Q29 Why are tertiary windings used in transformers?
Q30 What is the wattage of a zero-watt bulb?
Q31 Which type of winding would you choose for low voltage high current generators and why?
Q32 Why do series motors have high starting torque?
Q33 What is regenerative braking? What are its advantages?
Q34 What happens if armature and field coils of a generator are interchanged and used? Why are
induction motors more widely used?
Q35 What are brushless alternators?
Q36 What is plugging of an induction motor?
Q37 How is the alternator synchronized to the main busbar?
Q38 What are the applications of servomotor?
Q39 How do you specify the rating of a transformer?
Q40 Which type of the motor is used in fans?
Q41 What is the purpose of compensating winding in DC machines ?
Q42 What is phase swinging?
Q43 Does corona has any advantage in power system?
Q44 What are lightning arrestors?
Q45 What are the different power system losses and how can it be eliminated?
Q46 What is the criterion for selection of system voltage?
Q47 What is the difference between an insulator and a dielectric?
Q48 What is bus bar?
Q49 Explain the principle of operation of a relay and a circuit breaker?
Q50 Why is voltage stepped up before transmission?
Q51 Explain transmission and distribution systems ?
Q52 What are the standard transmission and distribution voltages ?
Q53 How are turbines selected to be installed in a generating station?
Q54 Which is better 50 Hz supply or 60 Hz? Explain .
Q55 What are the disadvantages of low power factor?
Q56 What is grading of a cable?
Q57 Explain the power rating of a bulb, say 60W, what if the voltage changes?
Q58 Why is the earth pin in a 3-pin plug the longest and the thickest?
Q59 What is IDMT? What is the principle?
Q60 What is SCADA?
Q61 Which type of luminance has greater visibility- GLS or FL?
Q62 What is power line communication?
Q63 What are traveling waves?
Q64 How can you decrease the harmonics in a waveform?
Q65 Why is the starting current high in a DC motor?
Q66 Why Delta Star Transformers are used for Lighting Loads?
Q67 Why series motor cannot be started on no-load?
Q68 Why ELCB can't work if N input of ELCB do not connect to ground?
Q69 Why we do 2 types of earthing on transformer ie: body earthing & neutral earthing, what is
function.
Q70 What is the difference between MCB & MCCB, Where it can be used?
Q71 Where should the lighting arrestor be placed in distribution lines?
Q72 What are the transformer losses?
Q73 What is boucholz relay and the significance of it in to the transformer?
Q74 What is SF6 Circuit Breaker?
Q75 What is meant by insulation voltage in cables? explain it?
Q76 How to calculate capacitor bank value to maintain unity power factor with some suitable
example?
Q77 What is C.T. and P.T. ? Where they are used ?
Q78 There are a Transformer and an induction machine. Those two have the same supply. For
which device the load current will be maximum? And why?
Q79 What happens if a capacitor is connected at generator terminals as a load?
Q80 How many types of cooling system are there for transformers?
Q81 What is the function of anti-pumping in circuit breaker?
Q82 What is stepper motor. What are its uses? What is universal motor .
Q83 What is Automatic Voltage regulator (AVR)?
Q84 Difference between a four point starter and three point starter?
Q85 Why use the VCB at High Transmission System? Why can't we use ACB?
Q86 Why synchronous generators are used for the production of electricity?
Q87 What is the difference between synchronous generator & asynchronous generator?
Q88 Give two basic speed control scheme of DC shunt motor?
Q89 What will happen when power factor is leading in distribution of power?
Q90 What is the one main difference between UPS & inverter ?
Q91 What is the significance of vector grouping in Power Transformers?
Q92 Which type of A.C motor is used in the fan (ceiling fan, exhaust fan, padestal fan, bracket
fan etc) which are find in the houses ?
Q93 Why, when birds sit on transmission lines or current wires doesn't get shock?
Q94 What is ACSR cable and where we use it?
Q95 What is vaccum currcuit breaker .Where it is used ?
Q96 How tubelight circuit is connected and how it works?
Q97 What are the advantages of speed control using thyrister?
Q98 What is "pu" in electrical engg?
Q99 Why link is provided in neutral of an ac circuit and fuse in phase of ac circuit?
Q100 What is the difference between electronic regulator and ordinary rheostat regulator for
fans?
Q101 What is difference between earthing and grounding?