What's an AVR? What's its purpose in Generators?

Answer Posted / neeraj pati

AVR-Automatic voltage regulators. alos they are called line
drop compensators. they are used to regulate the supply
voltage to the distribution network. thay r used in
transformers and generators. they sense the secondary PT
voltage and correspondingly change the tap position of OLTC
to regulate the secondary output voltage.

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