Chapter 15: Synchronous Rectifier
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Section titled “Source Metadata”| Field | Value |
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| Source | Theory and Calculation of Electric Apparatus |
| Year | 1917 |
| Section ID | theory-calculation-electric-apparatus-chapter-13 |
| Location | lines 18413-19373 |
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| Word Count | 4865 |
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Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”CHAPTER XV SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER Self-compounding Alternators— Self-starting Synchro- nous Motors — Arc Rectifier — Brush and Thomson Houston Arc Machine — Leblanc Panchahuteur — Permutator — Synchronous Converter 138. Rectifiers ffir converting alternating into direct current have been designed and built since many years. As mechanical rectifiers, mainly single-phase, they have found a limited use for small powers since a long time, and during the last years arc rectifiers have found extended use for small and moderate powers, for storage-battery charging and for series arc lighting by constant direct current. For large powers, however, the rectifier does not appear applicable, but the synchronous converter takes its place. The two most important types of direct-current arc-light ma- chines, however, have in reality been mechanical rectifiers, and for compounding alternators, and for starting synchronous motors, rectifying commutatorsSource-Located Theme Snippets
Section titled “Source-Located Theme Snippets”Waves / transmission lines
Section titled “Waves / transmission lines”... of direct-current arc-light ma- chines, however, have in reality been mechanical rectifiers, and for compounding alternators, and for starting synchronous motors, rectifying commutators have been used to a considerable extent. Let, in Fig. 72, e be the alternating voltage wave of the supply source, and the connections of the receiver circuit with this sup- ply source be periodically and synchronously reversed, at the zero points of the voltage wave, by a reversing commutator driven by a small synchronous motor, shown in Fig. 73. In the receiver c ...Alternating current
Section titled “Alternating current”CHAPTER XV SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER Self-compounding Alternators— Self-starting Synchro- nous Motors — Arc Rectifier — Brush and Thomson Houston Arc Machine — Leblanc Panchahuteur — Permutator — Synchronous Converter 138. Rectifiers ffir converting alternating into direct current have been designed and built since many years. As mechanical rectifiers, mainly single-phase, they have found a limited use for small powers since ...Impedance / reactance
Section titled “Impedance / reactance”... t is, the making of contact during one half wave, and opening it during the reverse half wave, is accomplished not by mechanical syn- chronous rotation, but by the use of the arc as unidirec- rwm hPHH 'hbHI B Fig. 102. — Diagram of mercury-arc rectifier with its reactances. tional conductor:1 with the voltage gradient in one direc- tion, the arc conducts; with the reverse voltage gradient 1 Sec Chapter II of "Theory and Calculation of Electric Circuits/' SYXCHROXOUS RECTIFIER 249 — the other half wave — it does not conduct. A large ...Radiation / light
Section titled “Radiation / light”... since many years. As mechanical rectifiers, mainly single-phase, they have found a limited use for small powers since a long time, and during the last years arc rectifiers have found extended use for small and moderate powers, for storage-battery charging and for series arc lighting by constant direct current. For large powers, however, the rectifier does not appear applicable, but the synchronous converter takes its place. The two most important types of direct-current arc-light ma- chines, however, have in reality been mechanical rectifiers, and f ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
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