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Working in Under Voltage

11/14/2011 8:43 AM

Why motor gets heated up working in under voltage? Is'nt current drawn is less for less voltage than the rated.

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Re: Working in under voltage

11/14/2011 8:51 AM

Motor draws more current when the voltage is lower than normal (within reason) so that it can deliver the mechanical power that its load needs. Please read the cowern papers

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Re: Working in under voltage

11/14/2011 9:32 AM

Thank you

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Re: Working in Under Voltage

11/14/2011 9:34 AM

If the voltage is insufficient to supply the current needed to supply torque to the load (current and torque are roughly proportional) then the motor will stall. Many motors have a fan on them to pass cooling air over the motor casing driven by the motor shaft, and this fan will stop too. If the motor stalls, then the current will be about 5 times the full load current multiplied by the ratio between the actual supply voltage and the design supply voltage. At this point the device isn't a motor; it's a convector heater. If this motor is adequately protected for stall conditions, the overload protection device will operate, reducing the current drawn by the motor to zero.

So it the motor overheats, the overload protection device either isn't doing its job as it has been incorrectly set, or has been bypassed to keep the motor on regardless, or simply hasn't been fitted.

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Re: Working in Under Voltage

11/14/2011 10:31 AM

HP or kW = Root3 VL IL Cos phi. If the HP demanded by the driven load is constant, then to satisfy the above equation, if the voltage falls there would be a corresponding increase in Current.

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11/14/2011 3:56 PM

kW = √3 x V x I x cosΦ but this is electrical power.

The motor load is mechanical power so this becomes: Motor Mechanical Load (kW) = Electrical Load (kW) x Motor efficiency.

The motor inefficiency is wasted energy, mostly converting to heat.

Under moderate loads and more, undervolting the motor reduces efficiency and so heat loss increases in the motor as it slips more. So, it gets hotter as losses increase!

This relationship depends both on the level of undervolting and the load torque applied to the motor, but, if the motor's getting hotter, it's slipping more beyond it's rating for this voltage and so is starting to stall in common parlance.

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