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Missouri University of Science and Technology

Mechanical Engineering

1969

Dynamometer<br />Electric controllers<br />Electric current regulators -- Design

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The Design Of A Direct Current Generator Field Controller, Melvyn Elwin Downs Jan 1969

The Design Of A Direct Current Generator Field Controller, Melvyn Elwin Downs

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"A controller was built utilizing transistors and silicon controlled rectifiers to allow torque control of the General Electric dynamometer, type TLC-50. The current gain of the controller was approximately 10⁶ such that the field current could be controlled by an input current of zero to approximately two microaaperes. The transfer function for the controller-dynamometer system was experimentally determined. The results indicate that the gain of the open loop torque control system is constant for frequencies up to 1.1 radians per second. Satisfactory values of gain for proportional and proportional plus integral control, were experimentally determined by operating the closed loop …