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Transformer Academy

⚡ The Complete Interactive
Transformer Masterclass

From the EMF equation to fleet management and tender economics: a 26-chapter engineering course, ten interactive 3D models, an IEC 60076 design calculator and a 196-country design adapter — now unified into a single interactive masterclass for engineers, buyers and the next generation of the transformer industry.

26
course chapters
17
engineering figures
10
interactive 3D models
196
countries designed
16
self-test questions
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TX Design Masterclass — Everything in One Place

The unified experience: all 26 chapters with the 3D models and the design calculator embedded inline where they belong. Read the theory, rotate the model, then recalculate the very example you just studied — fundamentals to after-sales, plus a new Engineering Data Appendix (BIL, impedance bands, temperature-rise limits, insulating-liquid data, vector-group matrix, loss capitalisation).

26 chapters3D embeddedlive calculatordata appendixIEC 60076 · IEEE C57
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TX Calculation — Interactive Design Suite

The calculation half of the masterclass: a live IEC 60076 sizing engine in three modes — distribution, power and cast-resin. Change rating, voltage, flux density or current density and watch volts-per-turn, core area, turns, currents and conductor sizes resolve in real time, then capitalise the losses against the A&B factors.

3 modesvolts/turn → conductorsloss capitalisationIEC 60076
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Power Transformer 3D

A 100 MVA, 132/33 kV unit you can orbit, explode and slice open. Take the cinematic guided tour, hit ⚡ Energize to hear it hum and watch flux circulate, or run the 🚨 fault simulator and see the Buchholz catch what relays can't.

guided tourenergize + humfault simwinding cutawayoil flow
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Distribution & Dry-Type 3D

Three constructions side by side — oil-immersed with corrugated fin walls, cast resin, and open-wound VPI. Every part clickable with its engineering role, exploded-view assembly, and a 🎯 quiz mode that scores how well you know the anatomy.

3 technologiesexploded viewquiz gameclick-to-learn
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Core & Coil Assembly 3D

The naked active part: windings, clamps, press screws, leads and cleats out of the tank — plus a core-building mode where you stack the step-lap top yoke yourself, layer by layer, onto wooden clamps with proper insulation.

CCA / active partstack-it-yourself yokewooden clampsstep-lap
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500 MVA Power Transformer 3D

A two-winding 400/220 kV unit with a 5-limb core, separate ODAF cooler banks, 400 kV condenser bushings and tank magnetic shunts. Explode it, cut the windings, energize and watch the directed-oil cooling loop.

5-limb coreODAF coolers400 kV bushingstank shunts
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Core Topology Explorer

Switch between 3-limb, 5-limb and shell-form cores and watch the magnetic flux find its return path — the clearest way to see why large and transport-limited units go 5-limb or shell-form.

3-limb5-limbshell-formflux paths
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On-Load Tap-Changer Cutaway

The diverter, tap selector and change-over selector laid open. Press “Raise” to watch a tap operation — the selector pre-selects off-load, then the diverter snaps through the transition resistor (or vacuum bottle).

diverterselectorvacuum / resistortap animation
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Condenser Bushing Cutaway

Section a 400 kV bushing to reveal the concentric capacitor grading foils, test tap, central conductor and bushing CT. Toggle RIP vs OIP and overlay the voltage-grading field.

grading foilstest tapRIP / OIPbushing CT
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Winding Types Explorer

Helical, layer, disc and interleaved windings side by side — with the static ring, and an ⚡ surge mode that shows how interleaving flattens the line-end impulse stress.

helical/disc/layerinterleavedstatic ringimpulse stress
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Autotransformer 3D

A 400/220 kV interconnecting auto — see the series + common winding share one circuit, the delta tertiary, and the animated current path from HV through the junction (IV) to neutral.

series + commondelta tertiaryYNa0dcurrent path
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Generator Step-Up (GSU) 3D

A 420/21 kV GSU — delta LV to the generator (phase-isolated bus), star HV to the line with earthed neutral, YNd1, and the current path from machine to switchyard.

delta LVstar HVYNd1generator bus
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Country-Based Designer

Pick any of 196 countries and a rating: the design engine re-runs the course's §9 loop with local frequency, voltages, climate derating and loss regulations — watch a Saudi 60 Hz core shrink and a German Tier-2 design fight its loss caps.

196 countries50/60 Hzloss complianceclimate derating