Prepared by Varun Nair

EFFECT OF FIELD CURRENT CHANGES IN

SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR

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motor

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certain value of La leads Vol and motor
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complete aple is o
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over each cycle
and
the motor just vibrates

Approachestostartthesynchrononsmotor
the speed stator nt magnetic field
1 Reduce of
2 Use an external mover to accelerate the motor
prime
to synchronous speed

2 Use damper windings amortisseur coniduigs

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Motor starting Redwing frequency
by
stator of fieldrotates at a slower speed
if magnetic
auderat
there will be enough time for The rotor to
and lock on to the rot magnetic field

the speed of mag field can then be cricreased grad

wally to 50 60 UZ
to the requirement
Earlier it was impractical due
the
addition generator set for producing
of an

lower speeds
but now cycloconverters can produce variable
frequency

speed is lower WI Ea also will be lower

if So to keep the stator current
Ea Kfw
within limits Vg should also be seduced
accordingly
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Attach external darting motor to the Syne motor

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and bring it to Then machine is

full speed gym
paralleled with power system as a generator
motor is then detached from shaftof the
starting
machine Orme it is turns off Br tends to
behind and then machine acts like
fall Bs the
a motor
can be
owe the process is complete the gym motor
loaded normally
smaller because it
starting motor can have a
rating
has to overcome The inertia of the Syne
only
motor

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Amortisseur windings are special bars laid onto
motors
mi the
notches carved face of a synchronous
rotor and shorted out in the end by a Shorting

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for and so the motor speedsup
count
it reaches
It never reaches Syne speed but if
because no relative motion btw
that speed laid 0 of
conductors
field
So when it reaches value close to synchronous
a

speed the de field is given and then the

rotor
locks to the stator nf magneticfield
Procedure
1 Disconnect field Wlg's from DC power and
short circuit them
a 3 0 absent to stator of motor and Gt rotor
Apply
and orate upto hear synchronous speed
3 comeet de field unut to de power The motor will
lock into step at synchronous speed and load
maybe then added normally

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annottisseur windings gives an additional adv

of providing increases stability

if nm nsync find u's ammortisseur wig 0

if nm nsync euros and the torque produces

accelerates the sobs closer to
nsync
nm nsync e aid and this time the tongue
to the
produced will be opposite
dirof rotation and motor tends
to slow down

it is produced to speed up slow machines and

slow down fast machines

out the wad or other
these windings dampen
transients on the mic so they are also called
pamper windings

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They are also used in synchronous generators hi
which a variation of shaft tongue causes the
rotor to accelerate decelerate the damper conidings
will oppose this change

transient current in
responsible for the sub a

synchronous machine
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Ea
Generator

Vf
Ia
supplies reactive consumes reactive power
power EacossCVG
Eacoss Vef
under exerted
over enuited

Ia
Motor VO
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Ea
Supplies reachriep
consumes reactiveP
tacos s ref
over excited Eacoss Vol
under emited
supplies R P
motor if Eacoss Voy
for Gen or
Eacosscvp consumes RP
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Ea Vol generator up

SYN At as

most ratings are same the only difference is

in his lead as comp
the powerfautor rating
Gen
and to lagging in synchronous

the
field current limit is expressed
as a rating
leading power factor

Output of synchronous motor is given in horsepower

rather than in KW

Apple low speed high power applications