"Don Kelly" wrote in message news:hdzss.13143$tm5....@newsfe08.iad...
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> At standstill (say you lock the shaft of a squirrel cage induction motor)
> one can view the stator as the primary of a transformer and the rotor
> as the secondary with a shorted turn. That is max torque.
Not necessarily- a rough estimate is that the slip at maximum torque
equals the R/X ratio so that only with R/X=1 will the max torque be at
standstill. Most motors have an R/X in the order of 0.1
As the rotor
> accelerates the difference between the rotor RPM and field RPM of the
> stator (known as the slip frequency) gradually reduces to zero at
> synchronous speed and the torque vanishes, the motor is then just
> an inductive load like a transformer with no load on the secondary.
It wont run at synchronous speed but must slip even at no load to
overcome mechanical losses. In a sense it is a transformer (and can be
modeled as such at any speed) and at synchronous speed all you have is
the exciting current which is of the order of half the full load
current-entirely reactive.
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Quite so, but reactive current is 90 degrees out of phase with the voltage
so no power is involved. In larger motors a capacitor is added to remove
the reactive current from the supply or additional losses will be incurred
in the resistive conductor leading to the motor.
Here a curious fact emerges.
Mechanical losses can be overcome by driving the shaft with an internal
combustion engine, removing slip, so we have a rotating field that an
iron rotor has synchronous speed with and no current is induced in the
rotor's squirrel cage. Opening the throttle on the gas engine, we again
have slip but in a negative sense, the rotor is faster than the rotating
field in the stator and we have a generator.
I say this is curious because one would not normally couple a squirrel
cage motor to an engine and expect it to generate. It shouldn't because
there is no excitation current and no magnetic field in a squirrel cage
rotor, so why should a voltage appear from the stator?
> I can't imagine why anyone would want a variable speed fan in a
> stove hood.
That is a typical option- but being able to lower speed slightly does
reduce noise.
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So the chef can yell at the waiter, the dishwasher and the buss-boy
more effectively? You must dine at very expensive restaurants if they
can afford that luxury. :-)
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>> What has really made today's speed control possible is permanent
>> magnet technology with modern alloys. No need for the old Ward
>> Leonard system, some still used on old elevators.
> Permanent magnets do simply replace the old wound fields in the
> motors-but the real speed control is due to the inverters providing
> variable frequency to (typically) induction motors which do not have
> magnets.
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> I do not agree. An induction motor without a permanent magnet cannot
> be synchronous, it has to slip and the slip is load dependent. That's not
> speed control.
True- an induction motor is not and never has been intended to operate
as a synchronous motor- but speed control by frequency changing is not a
new thing- what has made it reasonable is the advances in power electronics.
However- applying a variable frequency source to an induction motor is
an effective speed control- It is necessary to make the applied voltage
proportional to frequency in order to avoid saturation and limit
magnetizing and stator current to a safe value.
Here is a reference- one among many- I haven't checked the equations
used but on a cursory glance they appear OK - the manufacturer of these
controls is well established. other references also deal with this.
http://www.ab.com/support/abdrives/documentation/fb/1024.pdf
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Good grief, look at that! I was just saying above about negative slip
being a generator and you produce an article on the subject.
When I was a young man there was a huge disparity in the cost of
energy, North Sea Gas was a new thing and the coal industry on
the decline, coal-fired power stations made electricity expensive and
natural gas cheap. Stoves and boilers working on coal gas were
converted to natural gas nationwide. I had a friend who subcontracted
to make specialised ornate street lights in a small workshop with
four employees , a painter, a welder and two assemblers. To cut
a long story short, I and a mechanic coupled a used Rolls-Royce
engine to a large 3-phase squirrel cage motor, welded a water jacket
on the engine's exhaust, ran the engine on natural gas, drove the
electricity meter backwards and used the engine's water temperature
to heat the workshop. We even used the motor to start the engine.
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750V DC.
http://www.javelintrains.com/javelin99.jpg
The Javelins have both a third rail shoe and an overhead pantograph,
but this earlier stock has no pantograph. There is still no catenary supply
into London Bridge, Charing Cross or Victoria, the major commuter termini,
so third rail DC is still a must. The trouble with upgrading is it can't be
done all at once, trains must run still run on the old system as well as
the new. I do know from a train driver friend of mine that he was
pulling 3000 amps climbing out of Dover Priory and the train was
barely moving, and that was 40 years ago. Gears would solve that
problem, but I've never found out for certain if that was it. Oh well...