Apparatus Section 9: Synchronous Converters: Inverted Converters
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Section titled “Source Metadata”| Field | Value |
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| Source | Theoretical Elements of Electrical Engineering |
| Year | 1915 |
| Section ID | theoretical-elements-electrical-engineering-section-87 |
| Location | lines 15735-15810 |
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| Word Count | 606 |
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Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”IX. Inverted Converters 100. . Converters may be used to change either from alter- nating to direct current or as inverted converters from direct to alternating current. While the former use is by far the more 256 ELEMENTS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING frequent, sometimes inverted converters are desirable. Thus in low-tension direct-current systems outlying districts have been supplied by converting from direct to alternating, transmitting as alternating, and then reconverting to direct current. Or in a station containing direct-current generators for short-distance supply and alternators for long-distance supply, the converter may be used as the connecting link to shift the load from the direct to the alternating generators, or inversely, and thus be operated either way according to the distribution of load on the system. Or inverted operation may be used in emergencies to produce alternatingSource-Located Theme Snippets
Section titled “Source-Located Theme Snippets”Field language
Section titled “Field language”... on the system. Or inverted operation may be used in emergencies to produce alternating current. When converting from alternating to direct current, the speed of the converter is rigidly fixed by the frequency, and cannot be varied by its field excitation, the variation of the latter merely changing the phase relation of the alternating current. When converting, however, from direct to alternating current as the only source of alternating current, that is, not running in multiple wi ...Radiation / light
Section titled “Radiation / light”... ay according to the distribution of load on the system. Or inverted operation may be used in emergencies to produce alternating current. When converting from alternating to direct current, the speed of the converter is rigidly fixed by the frequency, and cannot be varied by its field excitation, the variation of the latter merely changing the phase relation of the alternating current. When converting, however, from direct to alternating current as the only source of alternating current, ...Alternating current
Section titled “Alternating current”... nt generators for short-distance supply and alternators for long-distance supply, the converter may be used as the connecting link to shift the load from the direct to the alternating generators, or inversely, and thus be operated either way according to the distribution of load on the system. Or inverted operation may be used in emergencies to produce alternating current. When converting from alternating to direct current, the speed of the converter is rigidly fixed by the frequenc ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
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