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Electric Motors and Control Techniques
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This book will show you how different types of motors operate and how electronic control devices can be used to improve efficiency in a wide range of applications.
Get greater flexibility, reliability, and reduced energy consumption from household appliances to automobiles. This book will show you how different types of motors operate and how electronic control devices can be used to improve efficiency in a wide range of applications. You'll get in-depth, updated coverage Electric motor control applications; dc and ac motors; Digital motors; Commutator-type motors; Noncommutator-types motors; Electric vehicles.
This book will show you how different types of motors operate and how electronic control devices can be used to improve efficiency in a wide range of applications.
Get greater flexibility, reliability, and reduced energy consumption from household appliances to automobiles. This book will show you how different types of motors operate and how electronic control devices can be used to improve efficiency in a wide range of applications. You'll get in-depth, updated coverage Electric motor control applications; dc and ac motors; Digital motors; Commutator-type motors; Noncommutator-types motors; Electric vehicles.
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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August 3, 2007
So people keep asking me, "Can you recommend a good book on motors?" and this is where I point them. Or where I would point them if anybody really asked me that.
Electric Motors and Control Techniques is one of the best books of its kind that I have read. By books of its kind, I mean books about technical subjects that are not too technical for the General Public, but not too watered down to be of use to someone with a technical problem.
The first chapter of this book was the one I liked the best, actually- the author develops from basic priciples the use of electromagnetic force to cause mechanical motion. While there is a little bit of physics knowledge presumed, it is not too complicated, and is written in common language.
The result of this discussion is the electric motor, and the following chapters describe various flavors and methods, one after another, from the DC permanent magnet motor to the AC reluctance synchronous motor.
Following this are the chapters on electronic control, and here's where things get a little hairy. I won't claim to follow all of what is said here, but the author masterfully controls complicated motors with analog triac circuits that I wouldn't care to try. The idea that there might be more to motor control than Pulse Width Modulation and Linear Current Burning is kind of hard to get used to, but there it is, in black and white.
The next chapter is an overview of "Non-Classic" motors, so we're back to the fun stuff. Here is where you will find the DC brushless motor, by the way, which is getting classicer and classicer these days.
The book concludes with a discussion of electric cars, and by way of inclusion, electric batteries. Once again, the material is well handled, and appropriate for the general public.
So here is my recommedation: The laymen, with an interest in science but no interest or knowledge in electronics for electronics sake, will ejoy the first and last chapters, but will probably be a little bored in between. The control systems geek will find some interesting circuits and techniques, but not a textbook, per se. The roboticist and/or motor hobbyist will find an overview and comparision of various motor types. They may not find enough information to design and build a working system, nor will they find a comprehensive technical and theoretical overview. It is the conceptual explanation at which the author excels, and I highly recommend this book for that purpose alone.
Electric Motors and Control Techniques is one of the best books of its kind that I have read. By books of its kind, I mean books about technical subjects that are not too technical for the General Public, but not too watered down to be of use to someone with a technical problem.
The first chapter of this book was the one I liked the best, actually- the author develops from basic priciples the use of electromagnetic force to cause mechanical motion. While there is a little bit of physics knowledge presumed, it is not too complicated, and is written in common language.
The result of this discussion is the electric motor, and the following chapters describe various flavors and methods, one after another, from the DC permanent magnet motor to the AC reluctance synchronous motor.
Following this are the chapters on electronic control, and here's where things get a little hairy. I won't claim to follow all of what is said here, but the author masterfully controls complicated motors with analog triac circuits that I wouldn't care to try. The idea that there might be more to motor control than Pulse Width Modulation and Linear Current Burning is kind of hard to get used to, but there it is, in black and white.
The next chapter is an overview of "Non-Classic" motors, so we're back to the fun stuff. Here is where you will find the DC brushless motor, by the way, which is getting classicer and classicer these days.
The book concludes with a discussion of electric cars, and by way of inclusion, electric batteries. Once again, the material is well handled, and appropriate for the general public.
So here is my recommedation: The laymen, with an interest in science but no interest or knowledge in electronics for electronics sake, will ejoy the first and last chapters, but will probably be a little bored in between. The control systems geek will find some interesting circuits and techniques, but not a textbook, per se. The roboticist and/or motor hobbyist will find an overview and comparision of various motor types. They may not find enough information to design and build a working system, nor will they find a comprehensive technical and theoretical overview. It is the conceptual explanation at which the author excels, and I highly recommend this book for that purpose alone.
November 9, 2014
Gottlieb, Irving M. Electric Motors and Control Techniques
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