Experimental Verification with Loads of Line-Start Type Self-Excited Wound-Field Motor with Three-Phase Concentrated Winding Stator

This paper describes a novel line-start type self-excited wound-field synchronous motor with three-phase concentrated winding stator. The unique feature of this proposed motor is that it accelerates by obtaining the starting torque from the slip frequency at the time of starting, and at the time of synchronous pull-in, it is driven synchronously with utilizing the second order space harmonic as the field magnetization power. This driving principle was verified by performing a load test using the prototype with two types of load, fan and eddy current brake. Consequently, the synchronization based on the proposed drive principle could be demonstrated on the actual machine, and the line-start characteristics of the proposed motor have been clarified.