摘要:
The invention relates to a method and to device for measuring electric residual currents, which comprise both an alternating current component and a direct current component, by means of an inductive residual current transformer. The known methods for measuring mixed residual currents require special current transformer designs with respect to the coil winding, the magnetic core material and the number of cores. The new method uses the same current transformers that are customary for measuring purely residual alternating currents. According to the invention, the secondary coil (3) of the current transformer is controlled in such a way that the magnetic flux (Φ) linked to the secondary coil (3) in the core remains constant independent of the residual current and the secondary current (Is) required therefor is measured. For this purpose, the ohmic resistance (Rcu) of the secondary coil (3) in the secondary current circuit (4) is compensated by an electronically formed negative resistance (Rz) and a defined magnetic flux is cyclically restored by using the saturation flux (Φs) of the core as reference point.