Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Re: [Electric Boats] Beginner thoughts

 

Thats extremely interesting Ron. Do the DC motors work fine on the rectified quasi sine wave? has anyone tried rectified quasi sine to power an AC drive ? ( usually above 2KW these are fed from rectified three phase sine)

Chris S

--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Ron" <rlgravel@...> wrote:
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> Hi George,
> The motors I made mention of, are in fact PM brush motors, they are rated 130V DC and 18.5 amps, 6750 rpm. Using a router speed control and a full wave bridge rectifier I can use batteries or grid power.
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> The inverters give a one step increase 12vdc up to 120vac modified sine wave, 5,000watt cont. and a peak of 10,000watts for a few seconds.
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> I have used a stepup transformer, 5000 watt, to deliver 240vac with about 21 amps to drive a Delta 2HP planer motor. (220vac 18amps 3450rpm).
> I dabble and tinker quite a bit so I tend to mix and match things a lot, moving parts and pieces around I seem to never keep any one project in a complete and functioning group.
> I do enjoy dreaming and scheming :))

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