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The primary and secondary windings can both be tapped to allow an autotransformer to operate as a step-up transformer or a step-down transformer.

The power rating of a single-coil autotransformer is ___ the rating of the individual windings of an equivalent two-winding transformer.

___-connected transformers are not permitted to be installed on the load side of any system grounding connection.

Buck-boost transformers should not be used to buck or boost three units in a wye for creating a 3-phase, 4-wire wye circuit from a 3-phase, 3-wire delta circuit.

A buck-boost transformer should not be used to buck or boost a source feeding ___ loads.

The rating of an autotransformer is ___ the maximum possible unbalanced load current on the neutral of the 4-wire system.

A significant limitation of an autotransformer compared to a conventional transformer is the low ____.

In two-winding transformer motor starting, the motor terminal voltage does not depend on the load current.

A(n) ___ is any transformer in which the primary and secondary circuits have a portion of their two windings in common.

An autotransformer can be installed in combination with the ___ to split the percentage of change as the changer is operated.