Showing posts with label TRIAC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TRIAC. Show all posts

Friday, July 3, 2015

Designing a AC Motor Controller

In this blog i will be talking about the iasues related with designing a Single Phase Induction Motor Controller for a 220v AC Motor.
Let me start by stating that designing with microcontroller is bkth fun and effective.
So let me give you some headsup on the flowchart of the program.
1. Keep your hardware ready,work out the circuit on paper and understand the limits of your circuit i.e. voltage range and current range depending up9n the size of motor you are going to use.
2. Test out your circuit by always keeping a lamp load in series with your load,it helps in case of short circuit.
3. Now your aim is to replace your working circuit firing mechanism with the pulse width modulated waveform from your microcontroller.
4. Most important thing is to read the datasheet of the power electronic device you are using to understand the minimum pulse width required to trigger the device i.e 20ns
5. Always generate the pwm with reference to the interrupt signal activated by the external 50hz zero crossing detector output.
Today I have completed my panel for the same topic discussed above and attached the picture of it in the blog.Dont forget to see my youtube videos.
Have a great day designing new projects with these inputs.

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Controlling a induction motor using a single phase induction motor controller

Controlling a induction motor using a single phase induction motor controller 


There are two ways of controlling the speed of a 230v induction motor

1. By varying the ac voltage 
2. By varying the line frequency 

In this method of controlling the ac motor ,we will be using a TRIAC which is fired by an UJT.

As the name suggests the TRIAC can conduct in both the directions controlled by a gate pulse.

The gate pulse is varied by a Uni Junction Transistor which has a property to generate pwm.The advantage of triggering with UJT is that it offers a regular off timw for the TRIAC to cool down and as a result the requirement of heat sink is reduced.

The firing of UJT is generated by varying the dc voltage at the base.But the convenience of easy firing scheme has a drwaback of low range of operation i.e. from ac 20v to 190v.

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