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- From: cf036@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (G. Gary Preckshot)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Re: 3 phase question
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 19:37:30 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- In answer to Chip, Seriously Confused:
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- What actually is happening in a three-phase converter is that the
- converter is acting as a rotary transformer. The incoming
- single phase acts as one phase of the three outgoing three
- phases. It also energizes (by magnetic coupling) the magnetic
- vector in the rotor, which then couples magnetically to the
- other two phase windings of the converter. Thus the third
- output wire is 120 degrees electrically from the incoming two
- legs. The capacitor helps start the converter and also
- compensates for some magnetic lag in the winding-rotor-winding
- coupling. Thus, to build it right, you have to compute the
- actual currents at full load
- and size the capacitor accordingly.
-
- G.
-