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Aeronautical ground lighting (AGL) systems provide visual reference to aircraft during airport operations. In AGL systems, constant current regulators feed a series circuit composed of luminaires supplied through transformers. Component modelling is necessary to simulate AGL systems, and thus characterise and predict their behaviour. This paper presents an AGL transformer model including transformer core saturation. Moreover, a procedure to estimate transformer model parameters is proposed. Both the model and the estimation method are validated with extensive measurements on more than 20 AGL transformers of different power ratings and trade names.

Inspec keywords: aircraft power systems; power transformers; aircraft; lighting

Other keywords: transformer model parameter estimation; constant current regulators; AGL transformer model; component modelling; aeronautical ground lighting system transformers

Subjects: Aerospace power systems; Aerospace transportation (energy utilisation); Transformers and reactors

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