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Re: Question about power capacity of electrical motors.

From "Tim Williams" <tiwill@seventransistorlabs.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics.electromag, sci.electronics.design, sci.physics
Subject Re: Question about power capacity of electrical motors.
Date 2017-07-26 18:27 -0500
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"Robert Clark" <rgregoryclark@gmSPAMBLOACKail.com> wrote in message 
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> The question in regards to magnetic field strength in electric motors is
> whether increasing the power by increasing the current is limited by 
> magnetic saturation of the core material.

Ah, I get it -- to a certain extent, no.  But for practical purposes, yes, I 
think.

The reason is the same as why transformers can deliver far more current than 
the magnetizing current required to saturate their cores.  This applies to 
induction motors, which are little more than transformers where the 
secondary is a shorted turn, allowed to spin.  Flux density in the rotor is 
proportional to slip.

Um, it probably applies to series wound / universal motors as well, but I 
can't quite intuit whether that should be the case or not.  It also depends 
on load, because RPM/EMF and current are interdependent.

A PM motor is limited by the coercive force of the magnets, and whether that 
[magnetomotive] force can be transmitted by the laminated core.  (For 
laminated iron and NdFeB, it might not be possible, dunno.)

Transmitted force (mechanical and MMF kinds) is limited by air gap, so you 
have that to fight.

Whether that means you can destroy an NdFeB based motor, or demagnetize it, 
by thrashing the winding current and/or rotor velocity, I'm not sure.

Under pulse conditions, even if you saturate the core around the winding, 
you can always deliver more and more flux density, and eventually the motor 
looks more like an air core one (these exist, for low inertia applications, 
like old timey computer tape drives that had to reverse on a dime; and 
probably similar with some aerospace synchro or LVDT applications, too), and 
yeah, the force will continue to rise, but not as quickly as it did before 
saturation, because the effective air gap is now vastly higher.

So, no, the force isn't limited, but yeah, it's only going to go so far. 
Whereas an ideal diode looks like a limited voltage (with current rising 
exponentially), a real diode has series resistance; same with saturation, 
where it gets much harder to put in that extra flux, but you're fighting an 
increasing amount of air gap in the process.

Tim

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Seven Transistor Labs, LLC
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