Gate Firing Converters

Gate Firing Converters: The firing pulse control unit constitutes the heart of any thyristor power con­verter. The Gate Firing Converters required by the thyristors are often derived from the digital…

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Speed Detector

Speed Detector: One important factor in the closed loop control of variable speed drives em­ploying solid state converters is the Speed Detector. In the dedicated hardware control using analog components,…

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Symmetrical Optimum

Symmetrical Optimum: Symmetrical Optimum - Sometimes automatic control systems contain integrating also besides first order delay elements, proportional elements and deadzones. Such a system when compensated on the basis of magnitude…

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Controller Transfer Function

Controller Transfer Function: While a Controller Transfer Function is designed to improve the behavior of a given control system in practice it is very difficult to realize such a controller…

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Magnitude Optimum

Magnitude Optimum: The design of a controller based on the principle Magnitude Optimum that it allows all the fre­quencies to pass through in a similar way for a simple system is…

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Nyquist Criterion

Nyquist Criterion: Nyquist Criterion - This stability criterion enables one to establish the stability of a system using a graphical procedure in the frequency domain. Here also there is no…

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