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Rotating magnetic field as a sum of magnetic vectors 3-phase coils.

An electric motor converts electrical energy into kinetic energy. The reverse task, that conversion of kinetic energy into electrical energy is provided by a generator or dynamo. In many cases two devices differ by their application and minor construction details, and some applications use a single device to fill both roles. For example, traction motors used on locomotives often perform both tasks if the locomotive is equipped with dynamic brakes.

Operation

Most electric motors work by electromagnetism, but motors based on other electromechanical phenomena, such as electrostatic forces and the piezoelectric effect, also exist. The fundamental principle upon which electromagnetic motors there is a mechanical force on a son of current carrying contained in a magnetic field. The force is described by the Lorentz force law and is perpendicular to both the wire and the magnetic field. Most rotary magnetic motors, linear motors, but also exist. In a rotary engine, the part rotating (usually inside) is called the rotor and the stationary part is called the stator. The rotor rotates because the son and the magnetic field are arranged so that a torque is developed on the rotor axis. The motor contains electromagnets that are wound on a frame. Well This framework is often called the armature, that term is often misapplied. Correctly, the armature is the part of the engine through which the input voltage is provided. According to the design of the machine, either the rotor or the stator can serve as reinforcement.

current motors continuous

The electric motors of various sizes.

One of the first electromagnetic rotary motors was invented by Michael Faraday in 1821 and consisted of a free-hanging wire dipping into a pool of mercury. A permanent magnet was placed in the middle the pool of mercury. When a current is passed through the wire, the wire rotated around the magnet, showing that the current gave rise to circular magnetic field around the wire. This motor is often demonstrated in school physics classes, but brine () are sometimes used instead of toxic mercury. This is the simplest form of a class of electric motors called homopolar motors. A later refinement is the wheel Barlow.

Another electric motor design used at the beginning of a piston reciprocating in a market solenoid; conceptually could be considered an electromagnetic version of two stroke internal combustion engines.

The modern DC motor was invented by accident in 1873, when Zénobe Gramme connected the dynamo rotates at a second similar unit, the drive as a motor.

The brushless DC motor has a rotating armature in the form of an electro-magnet. A rotary switch called a commutator reverses the direction of electric current twice per cycle, to flow through the frame so that the poles of the electromagnet push and pull against the permanent magnets outside the engine. As poles of the electromagnet armature move the poles of permanent magnets, the switch reverses the polarity of the electromagnet armature. During this time switching polarity, inertia keeps the conventional engine in the right direction. (See chart below.)

A simple DC motor. When the coil is energized, the magnetic field is generated around the armature. The left side of the frame is pushed away from the magnet to pull to the left and right, causing rotation.

The armature continues to rotate.

When the armature becomes horizontally aligned, the commutator reverses the direction of current through the coil, reversing the magnetic field. The process is then repeated.

field wound DC motor

The magnets Standing outside (stator) of a DC motor can be replaced by electromagnets. By varying the current field, it You can change the speed / torque motor. Generally, the field winding is connected in series (series wound) with the armature winding for high torque at low engine speed, in parallel (separately excited) with the frame to obtain a high speed torque at low engine speed, or having a liquidation partly parallel and partly in series (compound wound) which gives a balance constant speed on a range of loads. Further reductions in the current domain are possible to gain speed even higher, but the torque is proportional lower, called "low field" operation.

Theory

If a tree DC motor is activated by an external force, the motor behaves as a generator and produce an electrical driving force (EMF). This voltage is also generated during normal engine operation. The spinning motor produces a voltage known as the back EMF because opposes the voltage applied to the motor. Therefore, the voltage drop across a motor consists of the voltage drop due to back EMF and the voltage drop parasite resulting from the internal resistance of windings apperature's. The current in a motor is given by the following equation:

I = (Vapplied? Vbackemf) / Rapperature-

The mechanical power produced by the engine is given by:

P = I * Vbackemf-

From the back EMF is proportional to the speed of the motor when an electric motor is first started or is completely blocked, there is no back EMF. Therefore, the current through the apperature is much higher. This high current can cause a strong electric field that will start the engine running. Since the engine is not running, back EMF increases until it equals the applied voltage minus the voltage drop parasite. At this stage, will a small current through the motor. Basically, the following three equations can be used to find the speed, current, and back EMF of a motor under load:

Load = Vbackemf * I-

Vapplied Rapperature * = I? Vbackemf-

Vbackemf = Speed * Fluxapperature-

Cruise

In general, the speed of a motor DC is proportional to the applied voltage, and torque is proportional to current. Speed control can be achieved by recording drums variable variable voltage, resistors or electronic controls. The direction of the wound of a DC motor can be changed by reversing either the field or armature connections but not both. This is commonly done with a special set of contactors (direction contactors).
The effective voltage can be amended by inserting a resistor in series or a controlled electronic switching device made of thyristors, rectifiers transistors, or, formerly the mercury arc. In a circuit known as a chopper, the average voltage applied to the motor is changed by changing the voltage quickly. As the "they" to "OFF" cycle duty ratio () is varied to change the average voltage applied, the speed motor varies. The percentage "on" time multiplied by the supply voltage gives the average voltage applied to the motor. Therefore, with a Power 100 V and 25% "on" time of the average voltage at the motor will be 25 V. During the "off" current in the motor flows through diode called a diode wheel. At this stage in the cycle of the current bid is zero, and thus the average motor current is always greater than supply current to less than the percentage of "on" time is 100%. At 100% "on" time of supply and the intensity are equal. The rapid switching wastes less energy than series resistors. Output filters smooth the average voltage applied to the motor and reduce engine noise. This method is also called pulse width modulation, or PWM, and is often controlled by a microprocessor.

Since the series-wound motor DC develops its high torque at low speed, it is often used in applications such as traction electric locomotives, and trams. Another application is starter for gasoline and small diesel engines. series motors must never be used in applications where the reader may fail (such as belt drives). As the engine accelerates, the armature (and hence field) current reduces. The reduction in forces the engine to speed up (see "weak field" in the last section) until it is destroyed. It can also be a problem with railway motors in case of loss of adhesion, because, unless quickly controlled, the motors can achieve speeds much higher than they would in normal circumstances. This may not only cause problems for the engines themselves and the gears but because of the speed difference between the rails and wheels can also cause serious damage to the rails and treads as they heat and cool quickly. weakening field is used in some electronic controls to increase the speed of an electric vehicle. The simplest form uses a contactor and the field strength weakens, the electronic control monitors the motor current and switches the field weakening resistance in the circuit when the motor current reduces below a preset value (this is when the engine is at its full design speed). Once the resistance is in the circuit increase engine speed above its normal speed at its rated voltage. When the motor current increases control disconnects the resistance and torque low speed is available.

An interesting method of controlling the speed of a DC motor is the Ward Leonard control. It is a method of controlling a DC motor (usually a shunt or compound wound) and was developed as a means of providing a motor speed controlled from a AC power, if it is not without its benefits in DC schemes. The AC power is used to drive an AC motor, usually an induction motor that drives a generator DC or dynamo. The DC output of the armature is directly connected to the armature of the DC motor (generally identical construction). The shunt field windings of both DC machines are excited by a variable resistance of the armature of the generator. This resistance provides extremely variable speed control of the well off at full speed and constant torque. This method of control was the method de facto its development until it is replaced by sound systems thyristor state. It found service in almost any environment where control of sound speed was necessary, through the elevators at the head of large pit winding gear and even industrial process machinery and electric cranes. Its main drawback is that the three machines were required to implement a scheme (five in very large installations, such as DC machines are often duplicated and controlled by a variable tandem resistance). In many applications, the motor-generator was often left permanently to avoid delays that would otherwise be caused by it start, required. There are many old plants Ward-Leonard still in service.

Universal motors

A variant of the engine wound field DC motor is the universal. The name comes from the fact that it may use AC or DC current, but in practice they are almost always used with AC supplies. The principle is that in an engine to the wound field DC current in both the field and the armature (and hence the resultant magnetic fields) alternate (reverse polarity) at the same time, and therefore the mechanical force generated is always in the same direction. In practice, the engine must be specially designed to cope with alternating current (impedance must be taken into account and the force of heartbeats), and the engine resulting is generally less efficient than a DC motor equivalent pure. Operating at normal power line frequencies, the maximum power the universal motor is limited and engines of one kilowatt are rare. But universal motors also form the basis of the traditional railway traction motor. In this application, to maintain their high electrical efficiency, they were operated from very low supply AC frequency 25 Hz 16 2 / 3 hertz operation being common. Because they are universal motors, locomotives using this model have also often been able to operate from a third rail powered by DC.

The advantage of the universal motor is that AC supplies may be used on engines which have the typical characteristics of DC motors, particularly high starting torque and very compact if maximum speeds are used. The downside is the maintenance and problems of short lifetime caused by the collector. Therefore, these motors are generally used in devices such as AC mixers and power tools that are used intermittently. continuous monitoring of the speed of a motor Universal running on AC is very easily done using a thyristor circuit of control speed can be enhanced accomplished using multiple taps on the field coil. Household blenders that advertise many speeds frequently combine a field coil with several taps and a diode that can be inserted in series with the motor (causing the motor to run the half-wave DC with half of the rms voltage of the power line).

Unlike AC motors, universal motors can easily exceed one revolution per cycle of the current diet. This makes them useful for appliances such as blenders, vacuum cleaners, hair dryers and where high-speed operation is desired. Many vacuum cleaner and weed trimmer motors exceed 10,000 rpm, Dremel and other similar miniature grinders often exceed 30,000 rpm. A universal theoretical engine allowed to operate without mechanical load will overspeed, which may cause damage. In real life, if, on various friction induced "drift", and the burden of any fan Integrated cooling all act to prevent speeding.

With the very low cost of semiconductor rectifiers, some applications have previously used a universal motor now use a DC motor, usually with a permanent magnetic field. This is particularly true if the semiconductor circuit is also used for variable speed control.

The advantages of universal motor and AC distribution the installation of traction at low frequency current economic distribution system for certain rail facilities. At relatively low frequencies, engine performance is approximately the same as if the engine operated on DC. Frequencies as low as 162 / 3 Hz were used.

AC motors

In 1882, Nikola Tesla recognized the principle of rotating magnetic field, and pioneered the use a rotating magnetic field strength to operate machinery. He exploited the principle of designing a single two-phase induction motor in 1883. In 1885, Galileo Ferraris independently researched the concept. In 1888, Ferraris published his research in a paper to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin.

Introduction of Tesla's motor from 1888 onwards initiated what is called the second industrial revolution, which makes possible the efficient production and long-distance distribution electrical energy using the alternating current transmission system, also of Tesla's invention (1888) [1]. Before the invention of the field rotating magnetic, motors operated by a driver passing continuously through a stationary magnetic field (as in homopolar motors).

Tesla had suggested that switches from one machine can be removed and the device could operate on a rotational plane of force. Professor Poeschel, his teacher said that would be like building a perpetual motion machine. [2] Tesla by U.S. patent 0,416,194 achieve, electric motors (December 1889), which resembles the engine found in many photos of Tesla. This classic motor AC electro-magnetic is

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In induction motor field and armature are ideally field strengths of equality and in the field and armature cores were of equal size. The total energy supplied to operate the device was equal to the amount of energy expended in the armature and field coils [3]. The power developed in operation of the device equaled the product of the energy expended in the armature and field coils. [4]

Michail Osipovich Dolivo-Dobrovolsky later invented a three-phase "cage-rotor" in 1890. A multiphase system commercially successful production and long-range transport Almería was designed by Decker Mill Creek No. 1 [5] in Redlands, California [6].

Components and types

A typical AC motor consists of two parts:
1. A fixed outer stator coils supplied with AC current to produce a magnetic field turning, and;
2. An inside rotor attached to the output shaft is given a torque by the rotating field.

It are two basic types of AC motor according to the type of rotor used:

• The synchronous motor, which rotates exactly to supply frequency or a submultiple of the supply frequency, and;
• The induction motor, running a little slower, and usually (but not necessarily always) takes the form of squirrel cage motor.

Three-phase induction motors ac

Three-phase motors AC induction note 1 Hp (746 W) and 25 W with small engines CD, toys and CD player / head cover DVD

Where a polyphase electrical supply is available, the three phases (or polyphase) AC induction motor is commonly used, particularly for large motors. Phase differences between the three phases of the polyphase electrical supply create a rotating electromagnetic field in the engine.

With induction electromagnetic, the rotating magnetic field induces a current in the rotor conductors, which sets up a magnetic field which causes the rotor to counteract turn in the direction of the field is rotating. The rotor must always rotate slower than the rotating magnetic field produced by the polyphase electrical supply, otherwise no field will be produced in balancing the rotor.

Induction motors are the workhorses of industry and motors up approximately 500 kilowatts (670 hp) of output are produced in highly standardized sizes, making them nearly completely interchangeable between manufacturers (although European and North American standard dimensions are different). Very large synchronous motors are capable of tens of thousands of kilowatts of output, for compressors Pipeline and tunnel readers. There are two types of rotors used in induction motors.

Squirrel rotors Cage: Most common AC motors use the rotor cage, which is found in virtually all industries and small alternating current motors home. The squirrel cage takes its name from its shape – a ring at each end of the rotor, with bars connecting the rings over the entire length of the rotor. It is usually made of cast aluminum or copper poured between the iron laminates of the rotor, and more often than rings end will be visible. The vast majority rotor currents flow through the bars rather than the increase of resistance and usually varnished laminates. Very low voltage currents high are typical in the bars and end rings, high-efficiency motors often use cast copper to reduce resistance in the rotor.

In operation, the squirrel cage motor can be considered as a transformer with a rotating secondary – when the rotor rotates not in sync with the magnetic field, large rotor currents are induced, large rotor currents magnetize the rotor and interact with magnetic fields stator to bring the rotor into synchronization with the stator field. A squirrel cage motor at synchronous speed vacuum only consume energy power to maintain rotor speed against friction and resistance losses, such as increased mechanical load, it will be the electric charge – The electrical load is inherently related to the mechanical load. This is similar to a transformer, where the electric charge of the former is related to the secondary electrical load.

Therefore, for example, a squirrel cage blower motor may cause the lights in a house low as it starts, but does not turn off the lights when his fanbelt (and therefore mechanical load) is deleted. In addition, a stalled squirrel cage motor (overloaded or stuck to a tree) uses currently limited by the resistance of the circuit because it attempts to start. Unless something else limits the current (or cuts off completely) overheating and destruction of the winding insulation is the likely outcome.

Almost all the washing machine, dishwasher, fan autonomous disc player, etc. uses a variant of a squirrel cage motor.

Rotor Wound: A design alternative, called the wound rotor, is used when variable speed is necessary. In this case, the rotor has the same number of poles as the stator windings and wire are connected to slip rings on the tree. Carbon brushes connect the slip rings to a controller externally, as a variable resistor that allows changing the rate of motor slip. In high power variable speed drives of some of the wound rotor, energy slip frequency is captured, rectified and returned to power through an inverter.

Compared rotor squirrel cage, wound rotor motors are expensive and require maintenance of rings and brushes, but they were the standard form for variable speed control before the advent of compact power electronic devices. transistor inverters with frequency drives variable can now be used for speed control and wound rotor motors are becoming less and less. (Transistorized inverter drives also allow to more efficient engines in three phases to be used when phase system is available, but it is never used in devices house hold, because it can cause electrical interference and because of the high power requirements.)

Several methods of starting a polyphase motor are used. When the inrush current and high starting torque level may be allowed, the engine can be started across the line by applying a voltage full range of terminals. When it is necessary to limit the influx starting current (where the engine is large compared to the capacity of short-circuiting of supply), reduced voltage starting using coils series is an autotransformer, thyristors, or other devices are used. A technique sometimes used is starting star-delta, where the motor coils are initially Wye related to the acceleration of the load, then switched to delta when the load speed. This technique is more common in Europe than North America. Transistorized drives can directly vary the applied voltage as required by the starting characteristics of the motor and load.

This type of motor is becoming more common in traction applications such as locomotives, where it is known as the asynchronous traction motor.

The speed of AC motor is determined primarily by the frequency of AC power and the number of poles in the stator winding, by the relationship:

Ns = 120F / p

where
Ns = synchronous speed, in revolutions per minute
F = frequency of AC network
P = Number of poles per phase winding

Actual RPM for an induction motor is less than the calculated speed synchronously by an amount known as slip increases with the torque. In the absence of a shutter speed will be very close to synchronous. When loaded, standard motors have between 2-3% slip, special motors may have up to 7% slip, and a class of motors known as torque motors are expected to operate at 100% slip (0 RPM / stall).
The shift of AC motor is calculated by:

S = (ns? Nr) / NS

where
NR = rotational speed in revolutions per minute.
S = Slip standardized, 0-1.

For example, a typical four-pole motor operating at 60 Hz can be rated to 1725 rpm at full load, while its calculated speed is 1800.

The velocity in this type of engine has always been altered by having additional sets of coils or poles of the motor can be switched and off to change the speed of rotation of the magnetic field. However, developments in power electronics mean that the frequency of feeding can also be modified to provide better control of engine speed.

Three phase AC synchronous motors

If connections to the coils of the rotor of a three phase motor are taken on rings and fed a separate field current to create a continuous magnetic field (or if the rotor consists of a permanent magnet), the result is a synchronous motor because the rotor rotates in synchronism with the rotating magnetic field produced by power polyphase electric.

The synchronous motor can also be used as a generator.

Today, engines synchronous are frequently driven by transistorized variable-frequency drive. This greatly facilitates the problem of mass from the rotor of a large synchronous motor. They can also be started as induction motors using a squirrel cage winding that shares the common rotor: once the engine reaches its synchronous speed, no current is induced in the squirrel cage winding so it has little effect on synchronous operation of the engine, apart from stabilizing the motor speed on load changes.

Synchronous motors are sometimes used as motor traction, the TGV may be the best known example of such use.

Two-phase AC servo
A typical two-phase AC servo motor has a squirrel cage rotor and a field composed of two windings: a) a constant voltage (AC) main winding, and 2) control Voltage (AC) winding in quadrature with the main winding so as to produce a rotating magnetic field. The electrical resistance of the rotor is intentionally high so that the speed-torque curve is fairly linear. servo motors with two phases are inherently high-speed devices low torque, highly geared down to drive the load.

-Phase induction motors AC single

Three-phase motors inherently produce a rotating magnetic field. However, when only single phase power is available, the magnetic field Rotary must be produced by other means. Several methods are commonly used.

A common single-phase motor drives the shadow one pole, which is used in devices requiring low torque, such as electric fans or other small appliances. In this motor, small single-turn copper "shading coils" create the moving magnetic field. A portion of each pole is surrounded by a coil of copper or strap, the current induced in the strap opposes the change of flux through the coil (Lenz's law) so that the maximum field intensity moves through the pole face of each cycle, which produces the necessary magnetic field rotation.

Another common phase AC motor is the phase induction motor, commonly used in large appliances such as washing machines and dryers. Compared to the shaded pole motor, these motors can generally provide much greater starting torque by using a special startup winding in conjunction with a centrifugal switch.

In the motor-phase auxiliary starting winding is designed with a higher resistance than the running winding. This creates an RC circuit is slightly offset from the current phase in the starting winding. When the engine starts, the startup winding is connected to the power source via a series of spring contacts pressed by the not-yet-centrifugal rotary. The starting winding is wound with fewer turns small son that the main winding, so it has a low inductance (L) and greater resistance (R). The decline in the ratio L / R creates a small phase shift, no more than about 30 degrees between the flux due to the main winding and the flux of the winding starting. The direction starting rotation can be reversed simply by exchanging the connections of the start winding from the winding walk.

The phase of the magnetic field in this startup winding is shifted from the phase of the operation, allowing the creation of a magnetic field in motion that starts the engine. Once the motor reaches near design operating speed, centrifugal force switch, the contacts open and disconnecting the startup winding from the power source. The motor then operates solely on the running winding. The liquidation of departure must be disconnected because it would increase the losses in the engine.

In a motor-start capacitor, starting capacitor is inserted in series with the start of the liquidation, the establishment of an LC circuit that is capable of a phase shift much larger (and thus, a couple much greater departure). The capacitor naturally adds expense to such motors.

Another variation is the Permanent Split Capacitor (PSC) motor (also known as a capacitor start and run the engine). This engine works very similarly to the motor starter capacitor described above, but there is no centrifugal starting switch and the second winding is permanently connected to the power source. PSC motors are frequently used in the management of air, fans and blowers and other cases where a variable speed is desired. By changing taps on the winding walking but keeping the load constant, the engine can be made to run at different speeds. Has also provided every 6 winding connections are available separately, a 3-phase motor can be converted into a capacitor start and run the engine commoning two coils and the connection of third by a capacitor to act as a starting winding.

repulsion motors are wound-rotor single-phase AC motors which are similar to universal motors. In a repulsion motor, the armature brushes are shorted together rather than connected in series with the ground. Several types of repulsion motors have been manufactured, but the repulsion start induction run (RS-IR) engine has been used more frequently. The RS-IR motor has a centrifugal switch that shorts all segments of the collector so that the motor operates as an induction motor once it was accelerated to full speed. RS-IR engines were used to provide high starting torque per ampere under conditions operating temperature to cold and poor regulation of blood source. Few repulsion motors of any type are sold from 2006.

Alternative-phase synchronous motors

Small single-phase AC motors can also be designed with magnetic rotors (or several variations on this idea). The rotors of these motors do not require induced current so they do not slide backwards against the grid frequency. Instead, they rotate in synchronism with the grid frequency. Because of their high rate of accuracy, these engines are generally used to supply mechanical clocks, audio turntables, tape drives and in the past, they are also much used in accurate timing instruments such as strip chart recorders or telescope drive mechanisms. The shaded pole synchronous motor is one version.

Because the inertia, it is difficult to accelerate the rotor immediately arrested at the synchronous speed, these motors normally require some sort of special begin. Various designs using a small induction motor (which may share the same field coils and rotor synchronous motor) or a very light rotor with a one-way mechanism (to ensure that the rotor begins in the "forward" direction).

Couple engines

A torque motor is a specialized form of induction motor that is capable of operating indefinitely stalling (with the rotor blocked from turning) without damage. In this mode, the engine will apply a constant torque to the load (hence the name). A common application of a torque motor would supply and the adoption of motors reel in a tape drive. In this application, due to a low voltage, the characteristics of these engines allow a relatively constant voltage light to be applied to the tape if the capstan is feeding tape past the heads. Driven from a higher voltage (and thus provide a higher torque), the torque motors can also get a fast forward and rewind without need additional mechanics such as gears or clutches.

Stepper

Closely related to the design of three phase synchronous motors are stepper motors, where an internal rotor containing permanent magnets or a large iron core salient poles is controlled by a set of external magnets that are switched electronically. A stepper motor can also be considered like a cross between a DC motor and a solenoid. As each coil is energized to turn the rotor itself aligned with the magnetic field produced by the field winding tension. Unlike a synchronous motor, in its application, the motor can rotate continuously on the contrary, he "steps" from one position to another as field windings are turned on and off in sequence. According to the sequence, the rotor can rotate forward or backward.

Simple stepper motor drivers entirely energize not turn it off or all the field coils, resulting the rotor to "cog" to a limited number of positions, more sophisticated drivers can proportionally control the power to the windings so to allow the rotors to position "between" the "cog" points and thereby rotate very well. stepper motors controlled computer are one of the most versatile forms of positioning systems, especially when part of a digital servo system.

Stepper motors can be rotated to a specific angle with ease, and hence stepper motors are used in the disks of computers, where they offer high precision is necessary for the proper functioning, for example, a hard drive or CD.

Magnet Motor permanent

A permanent magnet motor is the same as the conventional dc machine, except that the winding field is replaced by permanent magnets. In doing so, the machine would act as a constant excitation DC machine (separately excited machine DC).

These engines typically have a low rate, up to a little power. They are used in small devices, cell vehicles, for medical purposes in medical equipment such as x-ray machines. These engines are also used in toys, cars as auxiliary motors for seat adjustment, power windows, mirror adjustment, etc..

Brushless motors DC

Many of the limitations of conventional DC motor commutator due to the need for brushes to press the switch. This creates friction. At higher speeds, brushes have increasing difficulty in maintaining contact. Brushes may bounce off the irregularities the commutator surface, creating sparks. This limits the maximum speed of the machine. The current density per unit area of brushes limit the output of the engine. The imperfect electric contact also causes electrical noise. Brushes eventually wear out and require replacement, and the switch itself subject wear and maintenance. Assembling the starter on a big machine is a costly element, requiring precision assembly many regions.

These problems are eliminated in the brushless motor. In this engine, the mechanical "rotating switch" or switch / Assembly brushgear is replaced by an external electronic switch synchronized with the engine position. brushless motors are typically 85-90% effective when the DC motor with brushgear are generally 75-80% efficient.

Mid-way between DC motors and ordinary stepper motors lies the realm of the brushless DC motor. Built very similar to stepper motors, these often use a permanent magnet rotor external, three phases of driving coils, one or more Hall effect devices to detect the rotor position and the associated drive electronics. The coils are activated, one phase after another, by the drive electronics as triggered by signals from Hall sensors. Indeed, they act as three-phase synchronous motors containing their own variable frequency electronic drive. A special class of controllers Motor dc brushless effect sensors use EMF feedback through the main phase connections instead of Hall to determine the position and speed. These engines are widely used in electric vehicles by remote control.

Brushless DC motors are generally used where precise control of speed is necessary, the computer hard drives or recorders the spindles within CD, CD-ROM (etc.) drives, and mechanisms within office products such as ventilators, laser printers and photocopiers. They have several advantages over conventional motors:

• Compared to AC fans using the shade pole motors, they are very efficient, running much cooler than the AC motors equivalent. This leads to significantly improved life cool fan bearings.
• Without a commutator to wear, the life of a DC motor, brushless can be significantly longer compared to a DC motor using brushes and a switch. Switching also tends to cause a large electrical and RF noise, without a switch or brushes, a brushless motor can be used in devices sensitive electrical equipment such as audio or computers.
• The same Hall effect devices providing commutation can also provide a convenient tachometer signal for closed loop control (servo-controlled) applications. In fans, the tachometer signal can be used to earn
• fan okay "signal.
• The engine can be easily synchronized to an external or internal clock, this which to control the precise speed.
• Brushed motors can not be used in the vacuum of space because they blend in a stationary position.
  Modern brushless DC motors power range from a fraction of a watt to several kilowatts. large brushless motors up about 100 kW rating are used in electric vehicles. They also find significant use in high-performance electric model aircraft.

DC motors, high frequency

Nothing in the design of one of motors described above requires that the iron (steel) parts of the rotor turns, torque is exerted only on the windings of the electromagnets. Enjoying this fact is the high frequency DC motor, a specialized form of DC brush motors. Optimized for rapid acceleration, these motors have a rotor which is constructed without any iron core. The rotor can take the form of a cylinder filled with winding inside the stator magnets, a basket surrounding the magnets the stator, or a flat pancake (possibly formed on a printed circuit board) running between upper and lower stator magnets. The windings are typically stabilized by being impregnated with epoxy resins.

Because the rotor is much lighter (mass) of a conventional rotor formed from copper coils on steel laminations, the rotor can accelerate much more rapidly, often achieving a mechanical time constant under 1 ms. This is especially true if the windings using aluminum rather than the heavier copper. But because is no metal mass in the rotor to act as a heat sink, even small high frequency motors must often be cooled by forced air.

These motors were commonly used to drive the capstan (s) and tape drives are still widely used in high system performance servo-controlled.

Linear motors

A linear motor is essentially an electric motor that has been "held" so that instead of producing a torque (rotation), it produces a linear force along its length by creating an electromagnetic field trip.

Linear motors are most commonly induction motors or engines step. You can find a linear motor in a magnetic levitation train (Transrapid) train, the train "flies" on the ground.

Nano Engine

Nanomotor built at UC Berkeley. The engine is about 500 nm in 300 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed levels of rotation based on multiwalled carbon nanotubes. By attaching a gold plate (with dimensions of 100 nm command) to the outer envelope of a carbon nanotube Multiwall suspended (as nested

carbon cylinders), they are able to electrostatically rotate the outer relation kernel. These bearings are very robust devices have been oscillated thousands of times without any indication of wear. The work was carried in situ in a SEM. These nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) are the next step in miniaturization that may find their way into commercial aspects in the future.
Opinion: The thin vertical line seen in the middle is the nanotube to which the rotor is fixed. When the outer tube is sheared, the rotor is able to rotate freely on the level of nanotubes.

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