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- From: cf036@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (G. Gary Preckshot)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Re: 3 phase question
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 20:10:18 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- Your incoming single-phase power should be applied directly to
- to one winding and the capacitor should be wired between one of
- the energized legs and the deenergized leg, assuming the three
- phase motor is wye-connected. It doesn't matter which way you
- connect the three winding wires, since the motor is completely
- symmetric. The only thing that changes depending upon which
- two winding legs the capacitor is connected is the direction
- of rotation, which is irrelevant for the converter. The
- capacitor should be sized to carry full-load current, wheich
- means that the internal resistance of the capacitor should be
- low. The capacitance of the capacitor is selected by determining
- the expected phase shift (120 degrees) between one leg of the
- wye and the other. For this you need to know the inductance
- of the converter windings and the expected full load current
- the converter is expected to supply. To analyze this correctly,
- you need to use "symmetrical components"(Wagner 1932) because
- the converter is an unbalanced three-phase circuit.
- Symmetrical components is a mathematical method of separating
- the unbalanced current flows into rotating, counter-rotating,
- and non-rotating components which together add by super-
- position to make the actual currents.
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- Correctly wired, your converter is self starting. It acts
- like a capacitor-start, capacitor-run single phase
- induction motor, and you should not need to mechanically
- spin it to start it.
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