Lecture 13: Electric Railway: Motor Characteristics
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Section titled “Source Metadata”| Field | Value |
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| Source | General Lectures on Electrical Engineering |
| Year | 1908 |
| Section ID | general-lectures-electrical-engineering-lecture-13 |
| Location | lines 7124-8648 |
| Status | candidate |
| Word Count | 2107 |
| Equation Candidates In Section | 2 |
| Figure Candidates In Section | 1 |
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Opening Source Excerpt
Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”THIRTEENTH LECTURE ELECTRIC RAILWAY: MOTOR CHARACTERISTICS mHE economy of operation of a railway system, station, lines, etc., decreases, and the amount of apparatus, line copper, etc., which is required, increases with increas- ing fluctuations of load ; the best economy of an electric system therefore requires as small a power fluctuation as possible. The pull required of the railway motor during accelera- tion, on heavy grades, etc., is, however, many times greater than in free running. In a constant speed motor, as a direct current shunt motor or an alternating current induction motor, the power consumption is approximately proportional to the torque of the motor and thus to the draw bar pull that is given by it. With such motors, the fluctuation of power consump- tion would thus be as great as the fluctuation ofSource-Located Theme Snippets
Section titled “Source-Located Theme Snippets”Field language
Section titled “Field language”... ll by a decrease of speed ; the series motor thus gives a more economical utilization of apparatus and lines than the shunt or induction motor, and is therefore almost ex- clusively used. The torque, and so the pull produced by a motor, is approximately proportional to the field magnetism and the armature current; that is, neglecting the losses in the motor, or assuming ioo% efficiency, the torque is proportional to the product of magnetic field strength and armature current 1 66 GENERAL LECTURES In a shunt motor, at constant supply voltage ...Magnetism
Section titled “Magnetism”... a decrease of speed ; the series motor thus gives a more economical utilization of apparatus and lines than the shunt or induction motor, and is therefore almost ex- clusively used. The torque, and so the pull produced by a motor, is approximately proportional to the field magnetism and the armature current; that is, neglecting the losses in the motor, or assuming ioo% efficiency, the torque is proportional to the product of magnetic field strength and armature current 1 66 GENERAL LECTURES In a shunt motor, at constant supply voltage e, the fie ...Alternating current
Section titled “Alternating current”THIRTEENTH LECTURE ELECTRIC RAILWAY: MOTOR CHARACTERISTICS mHE economy of operation of a railway system, station, lines, etc., decreases, and the amount of apparatus, line copper, etc., which is required, increases with increas- ing fluctuations of load ; the best economy of an electric system therefore requires as small a ...Radiation / light
Section titled “Radiation / light”... rmature, as shown by the curve e at constant field strength, the speed decreases in the same proportion, as shown by the curve Si. The field strength, however, does not remain perfectly constant, but with MOTOR CHARACTERISTICS 167 increasing load the field magnetism slightly changes: it de- creases by field distortion and demagnetization, and the speed therefore increases in the same proportion, to the curve S. The current used as abscissae in Fig. 38 is the armature current. The total current consumed by the motor is, however, slightly great ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
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general-lectures-electrical-engineering-eq-candidate-0094 | rotation thus drops still further, as seen in Fig. 41. Since the | line 8047 |
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