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What kind of motor can you use to make a homemade wind generator?
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For demonstration purposes you could use an ordinary small DC motor - like the kind used in a model railway engine, a toy motor car or model boat - driven by a light plastic propellor. Connect the motor to a flashlight bulb of about the same voltage as the motor.
You must be sure there is enough wind to drive the propellor and, to get the bulb to light up, you may have to try several different experimental set-ups. You will probably have to try using several different sizes of propellor along with various sizes of small flashlight bulb.
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Wind is the Primary source for Generting power In case of Wind Energy System. Its a fact that Wind energy is not constant but variable, So We cannot Use conventional Synchronous Generator For power generation.Instead We Have to Use a variable Speed Prime mover. for eg. A Wind Turbine. It depends on Wind Velocity and uses the Kinectic Energy of wind for rotation. Since the Prime mover is running at Variable speed we need to connect a Asynchronous Generator to it which is an Induction Generator. All things I Said above are basics, i mean the Old technology. Today its almost outdated because as the It is Asynchronous Generation we cannot connect to our conventional Grid System, instead we Have to use it as a isolated power System. But Thanks to the modern Technology which is Pitch Control Techinque, ie, The blade angle of Prime mover Changes w.r.t wind nd Speed of turbine is maintained constant irespective of wind Velocity. Therefore now a day we can use Synchronous Generator In Wind power System.
Then going to the question asked, a ordinary Toy Car motor which Is DC that Runs on battery can be used For make An model of wind Power System For An exhibition purpose. In Real System the Prime Mover is wind Turbine not Motor that Runs the Generator.
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What is a DC generator the same as?
A DC generator, or "dynamo", is very similar to a DC electric motor but cannot be described as "exactly the same as a motor" because a DC generator's designed purpose is not to "use" electricity (which a DC motor does) but to "make", or "produce", electricity.
What happens if you under power an electric motor you have a 3 hp single phase motor that requires 39A but your generator only outputs 23.2A?
If you make the connection, the breaker on the generator will trip. The motor will not get up to running RPM. Check and see if the motor is dual voltage. If it is, run it on the higher voltage. This will reduce your run current to about half of what it is on the lower voltage.
Why 3 phase motor rotate in opposite direction?
You would reverse rotation on a 3 phase motor to get it to run backwards. Say I fill up a tank truck from a lake. I turn on my generator. I run the motor in one direction. Then I drive the tank truck and the motor to a different location. Then I turn on my generator. I attach the hose to the motor on tank truck. I throw the switch to make the motor run backwards. I aim the hose at the fire in your house. Aren't you glad that I can make my 3 phase motor run backwards?
Can a motor drive a generator which can produce power more than the power used by the motor to drive the generator?
Claims about perpetual motion machines are always false because they ignore the inevitable losses of energy which must be overcome to make any machine operate so that it can do its intended work. Such losses mean that any machine, whether electrical or mechanical, must be supplied with more input power than it can convert into output power. In the case of electrical machines there are many reasons for energy losses: Bearing friction losses; "windage" losses caused by air having to be moved out of the way by spinning parts such as rotating armatures and cooling fans; magnetic hysteresis losses absorbed by eddy currents flowing in rotor armature and stator laminations; commutation losses in dc machines and slip ring losses in ac machines; excitation losses caused by the need to supply energy to the coils in the stator of a machine in order to magnetize it; general electrical resistance losses caused by the need to use energy to force electric currents to flow through the windings of any electrical machine. Whilst engineers have found ways to reduce each one of those types of loss to a minimum, it is still a fact of life that no electrical machine can be 100% efficient. In the case of a motor, it will always require more energy to be supplied to it than it can convert to mechanical power. In the case of a generator, it will always require more mechanical power to be supplied to it than it can generate as electricity. Some electrical machines have a power-conversion efficiency of up to 80% but most have efficiencies much less than that. If a motor and a generator were linked together to form a motor-generator set (the motor driving the generator driving the same motor) then, if both machines were as good as 80% efficient, that would mean the combined efficiency of the system of would only be .8 x .8 = .64 i.e. 64%. In other words, to keep the motor-generator set running, additional power equal to at least 36% of the motor-generator set system's own power would need to be supplied from an external source. Those facts make the set-up described in the answer to this question shown below pure nonsense. Period.
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What materials do you need to construct a homemade generator?
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