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- From: markw@hpcss01.cup.hp.com (Mark Williams)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:46:01 GMT
- Subject: Re: Electric motor brakes?
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- Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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- There are many ways to brake a motor, both mechanical and electrical.
- The mechanical means don't appeal to me, since I'm an electrical weenie.
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- Electrical braking is of two flavors, static and dynamic. Static braking
- puts a load across the motor winding when it's off, which dissipates the
- flywheel energy of the saw. Dynamic braking is not practical for induction
- motors on most saws.
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- A cheap static brake simply uses a two pole switch or magnetic starter to
- connect the motor to either the power line or a resistor, which converts
- the rotating energy to heat.
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