Protective Devices and Interlocks: Protective devices must be incorporated in the control circuit (or circuits) to interrupt the flow of current to the motor to guard against overloads or other…
Various Pilot Devices in Motor Control: Motor control devices may be classified as primary control devices and pilot control devices. Pilot devices control the primary control devices which in turn…
Magnetic Amplifier - Working Principle and Applications: In a magnetic amplifier, the basic component is a steel-cored coil with an additional winding energized by direct current. It is intended for…
Amplidyne (Rotary Amplifier) - Definition, Construction, Connection Diagram, Workings and Applications: The amplidyne is a rotary amplifier in which a small amount of power supplied to excite the field is…
Resistance Heating - Types, Advantages and Applications: Resistance heating is based upon the I2R effect. This method of heating has wide applicaÂtions such as heat treatment of metals (annealing, hardenÂing…
Thyristorised Control of DC Electric Traction Motor: The modern trend is towards the use of dc motors (both separately excited and dc series motors) equipped with thyristor chopper control. The…
What is Metadyne Control? - Construction, Working and Applications: The metadyne control system is based on constant current system of speed control. In resistance control or series- parallel control a…
Contactor Type Controller in Electric Traction: Contactor Type Controller - Schematic power diagram of a 1,500 V dc train equipment consisting of 4 dc series motors wired for series-parallel operation…