Single Phase Bridge Inverter: A serious disadvantage of the half-Bridge Inverter of Fig. 11.46 is that it requires a 3-wire dc supply. This is overcome by the commonly employed Single Phase Bridge Inverter circuit of Fig.…

Single Phase Half Bridge Inverter | R Load | RL Load | RLC Load: Figure 11.46(a) gives the circuit configuration of a Single Phase Half Bridge Inverter. It has two thyristors and two free-wheeling diodes.…

Phase Control of Three Phase Induction Motor: Figure 11.44 shows the schematic representation of Phase Control of Three Phase Induction Motor. Two thyristors are connected in antiparallel in each line. The firing sequence of the…

Static Kramer Drive: The Static Kramer drive system which consists of variable-speed drive system shown in Fig. 11.43 consists of a slipring induction motor and a rectifier-fed dc motor. The machines are connected electrically in…

Static Scherbius Drive Circuit Diagram: A basic scheme of a Static Scherbius Drive Circuit Diagram converter cascade, that is employed for recovery of slip power in electrical form itself, is given in Fig. 11.42. For…

Induction Motor Speed Control Methods: The only way to control the speed of a synchronous motor is to control the input frequency and voltage such as to keep V/f constant. The Induction Motor Speed Control,…

Basic Principle of Chopper Circuit: A Basic Principle of Chopper Circuit is essentially a thyristor switch in series with the load as shown in Fig. 11.27(a). A shunting diode is provided across the load for…

Three Phase Semi Converter feeding Separately Excited DC Motor: Large-kW motors are fed from 3-phase supply through three Phase Converters. In a three Phase Semi Converter, the ripple frequency of the motor terminal voltage is…

DC Motor Control through Converters: DC motor control is conveniently and efficiently achieved by phase-controlled converters wherein the ac input voltage is converted to a controlled dc output. The commutation process, the transfer of current from…