Unbalanced Rotor Impedance Operation: Earlier Unbalanced Rotor Impedance Operation were employed for starting and speed control. They are not in use any more. However, a loose contact in the rotor…
Three Phase Induction Motors: Three Phase Induction Motors are of two types: squirrel-case and wound-rotor. In squirrel-cage, the rotor consists of longitudinal conductor-bars shorted by circular connectors at the two…
Closed Loop Speed Control of DC Motor: Closed Loop Speed Control of DC Motor - The converters (rectifiers and choppers) are built using semiconductor devices, which have very low thermal…
Chopper Control of Separately Excited DC Motor: Motoring Control : A transistor Chopper Control of Separately Excited DC Motor drive is shown in Fig. 5.41(a). Transistor Tr is operated periodically…
Drawbacks of Rectifier Fed DC Drives: Drawbacks of Rectifier Fed DC Drives are as follows: 1. Distortion of Supply: Source current of a rectifier has harmonics. In a weak ac…
Four Quadrant Drive With Field Reversal: Four Quadrant Drive With Field Reversal as shown in Fig. 5.36, armature is fed from a fully-controlled rectifier and the field from a dual…
Dual Converter Control of DC Separately Excited Motor: A Dual Converter Control of DC Separately Excited Motor (Fig. 5.35) consists of two fully-controlled rectifiers connected in anti-parallel across the armature.…
DC Motor Reversing Switch Diagram: DC Motor Reversing Switch Diagram is shown in Fig. 5.34(a). A fully-controlled rectifier feeds the motor through a reversing switch RS which is used to…