Special Features of Thyristor Drive Motors: The most commonly used dc motors for thyristor drive are separately excited and series excited dc motors. The thyristor drive motors usually differ from…
Three Phase Cycloconverter - Types, Working and Applications: A cycloconverter converts ac at one frequency to an ac of another frequency. Cycloconverters can be classified as single-phase to single-phase, three-phase…
Electrical Drive Systems: Each Electrical Drive Systems is different from other Electrical Drive Systems. However, there are some common features associated with all Electrical Drive Systems. To understand them it…
Traction Motors: Motors Employed in Traction : Earlier, dc series motor was widely used in Traction Motors. It has high starting torque and capability for high torque overloads. With an…
Three Phase Drives: Single phase drives discussed in the previous section are employed for low and medium powers. When the power of the drive is very large the three-phase converter…
Performance of DC Motors Operating on Phase Controlled Converters: The nature of the output voltage and output current of a phase controlled converters impains the performance of the dc motor…
Current Source Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drive: Current Source Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drive - In a voltage source inverter fed induction motor the applied voltage to the stator is…
Square Wave Voltage Source Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drive: Square Wave Voltage Source Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drive is a kind of dc link converter, which is a two stage…