Delmar's Standard Guide to Transformers [Paperback]

Stephen L. Herman (Author), Donald Singleton (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0827372094 | ISBN-13: 978-0827372092 | Publication Date: September 16, 1996 | Edition: 1

Delmar's Standard Guide to Transformers was developed from the best seller Standard Textbook of Electricity with expanded transformer coverage not found in any other text. It goes beyond the traditional theory and design content by including practical applications. This highly illustrated text includes a set of laboratory experiments using standard control transformers and incandescent lamps. These experiments present basic transformer characteristics, polarity, single phase and three phase connections and calculations from a practical, hands-on perspective.

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About the Author

Stephen L. Herman has been both an electrician and teacher for over 20 years. He has authored 12 textbooks on the subjects of electricity and mathematics. He recently has retired from being a lead instructor for Electrical Technology Curriculum at Lee College in Baytown, Texas. Stephen Herman received an Excellence in Education Award by the Haliburton Education Foundation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 1 edition (September 16, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0827372094
• ISBN-13: 978-0827372092
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,141,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Stephen L. Herman has been both an electrician and teacher for over 30 years. He has authored numerous textbooks on the subjects of electricity and mathematics. He retired from being a lead instructor for the Electrical Technology curriculum at Lee College in Baytown, Texas. Mr. Herman received an Excellence in Education Award by the Haliburton Education Foundation.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A super book for transformer users!, February 7, 2001

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This review is from: Delmar's Standard Guide to Transformers (Paperback)

Delmar's Standard Guide to Transformers (or DSGT) is definitely worth owning.

It's a book targeted at vocational school students, but valuable to anyone that uses, installs, specifies, or services transformers. Every idea the book's text attempts to convey is supplemented by a drawing, photo, or illustration. The author left his ego out of the pages; at no point did I every feel talked down to nor did I detect any hint of academic condescension. Not to oversell the product, scientists and transformer company engineer/designers probably won't benefit as much, for the book is decidedly slanted to the users of transformers, not the makers of them.

After reading DSGT, transformers will be real to you, not just an abstract concept. The book begins with the basics of magnetism and a painless review of electrical theory, then starts building on that foundation. Unlike many EE text books that contain mostly page after page of verbiage and equations, this book has many large photos and detailed cut-aways of real transformers: tiny, small, medium, large, and enormous. Photos are numerous, all high-quality, professionally shot of every kind of transformer...but one.

This is a mild criticism, no photo is included of a common dry-type transformer of 30-60 KVA transformer very commonly found in most businesses and industrial settings. I would also liked to have seen a reproduction of a sample manufacturer's transformer data plate from this same size and type of transformer along with an explanation of how to read it.

After finishing the section on autotransformers, I was impressed by the depth of my personal ignorance and misconception on that subject!. The coverage of single-phase systems is quite good and 3-phase systems especially good. The most complete and concentrated collection of transformer interconnection schemes I've yet found is in this book.