Evaluation of measurement uncertainty in induction machines efficiency estimation

Any measurement process has always its inherent uncertainty due to different error sources. Identifying measurement uncertainties is important to make any measurement results reliable and credible. In this paper, 3 different induction motors were tested for efficiency using the direct method (dynamometer procedure) and a proposed algorithm of estimating full-load efficiency from only one no-load test.

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