Abstract:
A D.C. shunt motor has the armature connected to a three-phase supply through a pair of parallel connected full-wave rectifier bridges, each having silicon controlled rectifiers in each leg. A separate NOR logic circuit controls gating of each rectifier in accordance with the proper half cycle of the applied voltage and at the desired phase angle to establish a predetermined energization level. The firing is determined by an intercept detector having a separate channel for each phase. Each channel is connected through a lag filter and a lead filter directly to the corresponding phase winding of a reference transformer to supply to the channel a voltage directly derived from the lineto-line voltage applied to the corresponding rectifier. The input to each channel is connected across a center tapped reference transformer winding and the junction of a resistor and capacitor connected across the winding. A D.C. control voltage is applied to the channels to establish a control signal pulse at the proper phase angle of the rectifier-applied voltage.