A 22.38 kW, 440-V, 4-pole wave-wound d.c. shunt motor has 840 armature conductors and 140 commutator segments. Its full-load efficiency is 88% and the shunt field current is 1.8 A. If brushes are ...

DC machines can be classified as self-excited, separately excited, permanent magnet (PM), and brushless. Self-excited machines can be further classified as shunt, series, and compound. Compound ...

Industrial applications use direct current motors because the speed-torque relationship can be varied to almost any useful form -- for both motor and regeneration applications in either direction of ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. Motors are used in countless consumer electronics applications, and technology improvements that have led to more ...