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Apparatus Subsection 70: Direct-current Commutating Machines: C. Commutating Machines

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SourceTheoretical Elements of Electrical Engineering
Year1915
Section IDtheoretical-elements-electrical-engineering-section-70
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D. C. COMMUTATING MACHINES 207 and compound machines. Magneto machines and separately excited machines are very similar in their characteristics. In either, the field excitation is of constant, or approximately constant, impressed m.m.f. Magneto machines, however, are little used, except for very small sizes. By the direction of energy transformation, commutating ma- chines are subdivided into generators and motors. Of foremost importance in discussing the different types of machines is the saturation curve or magnetic characteristic; that is, a curve relating terminal voltage at constant speed to ampere-turns per pole field excitation, at open circuit. Such a curve is shown as A in Figs. 109 and 110. It has the same 1 8 9 4 5 6 78 9 19 U 12 13 H 15 16 I? J« W 20 81 FIG. 109. — Generator
D. C. COMMUTATING MACHINES 207 and compound machines. Magneto machines and separately excited machines are very similar in their characteristics. In either, the field excitation is of constant, or approximately constant, impressed m.m.f. Magneto machines, however, are little used, except for very small sizes. By the direction of energy transformation, commutating ma- chines are subdivided into generators and ...
... e used, except for very small sizes. By the direction of energy transformation, commutating ma- chines are subdivided into generators and motors. Of foremost importance in discussing the different types of machines is the saturation curve or magnetic characteristic; that is, a curve relating terminal voltage at constant speed to ampere-turns per pole field excitation, at open circuit. Such a curve is shown as A in Figs. 109 and 110. It has the same 1 8 9 4 5 6 ...
D. C. COMMUTATING MACHINES 207 and compound machines. Magneto machines and separately excited machines are very similar in their characteristics. In either, the field excitation is of constant, or approximately constant, impressed m.m.f. Magneto machines, however, a ...
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