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components of source voltage sum to zero (produce no net neutral voltage) they would not cause<br />

any current to flow in a grounded neutral (the menial result presented in circuit theory texts).<br />

If the load is delta-connected the ZS component of the source voltage would be present at each<br />

terminal by definition, thus ZS current cannot flow in this case either and the delta connection can<br />

be used with PWM schemes that produce a ZS component. However, if the bEMF contains ZS<br />

components they will drive current around the delta, restricted only by the impedance of the<br />

winding, thus delta motors must be designed to have minimal ZS components in the bEMF.<br />

A final note of interest concerns sensorless control techniques that use a three-phase resistor<br />

network to create an “artificial neutral” connected to the three motor/inverter terminals, such as<br />

[163], [87, p.148]. The network is used to collect triplen harmonics of the bEMF, from which the<br />

third is filtered out and used for rotor position detection. Per the above, in a 180° system the<br />

artificial neutral will contain the triplens of the source but not the triplens of the bEMF that are<br />

required. The method works only when a 120° inverter is used (because this causes the zerosequence<br />

network of the load to become coupled to the phase network, which allows the triplens<br />

to be measured at the terminals). It seems that articles presenting these types of methods (and<br />

especially the references that cite them) leave unmentioned that the technique works only for<br />

120° inverters. Other sensorless methods that utilize the third harmonic do employ a 180° inverter<br />

(such as [164], [165]) but these require a connection to the motor neutral or a specially-wound<br />

armature.<br />

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