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not be brought out of the motor housing for connection purposes. It appears to the author that<br />

most brushless permanent magnet synchronous motors are connected in a wye configuration with<br />

no neutral terminal available, as shown in Figure 3.2. When no neutral terminal is provided, it is<br />

said that the neutral is inaccessible, disconnected, floating, or isolated. The traditional terminal<br />

designations ABC are used in this report, but XYZ and RST are found in the literature also and<br />

UVW is widely used in the motion control industry.<br />

Figure 3.2 – Three phase wye-connected stator with three phase terminals.<br />

As far as the author can deduce, the most significant advantage that can be gained by using a<br />

delta connected winding in a BPMS motor is the possibility that the armature may be wound less<br />

expensively or more easily than a wye connected winding [69, p.5.21]. However, since the<br />

operation of a delta connected motor can be significantly different than that of a wye connected<br />

motor, the delta winding may provide certain benefits in special applications. 10 Further, if the<br />

bEMF contained the third harmonic it would cause current to circulate in a delta connected<br />

winding, contributing to copper losses without producing torque and this may potentially<br />

overheat the motor. Therefore, the delta connection can only be used efficiently when certain<br />

conditions are met [68], [69]. Although similarities exist, some of the analysis and control<br />

techniques applicable to a wye connected motor with isolated neutral will not hold for a<br />

10 In standard line-connected induction motors, the delta connection can provide some advantages. For this<br />

reason, 6-, 9-, and 12- terminal stators are available to allow the motor to be wired as a delta or wye, or one<br />

winding in delta and one winding in wye; the configuration can be either hard-wired or changed<br />

dynamically via contactors. Advantages include the ability to use a single motor with various supply<br />

voltages, the reduced starting current provided by a wye-start/delta-run configuration, and the ability to<br />

change the torque characteristic, perhaps among others [24, ch.20], [27, ch.10]. Permanent magnet<br />

synchronous motors are always used with a motor drive that supplants these older techniques so the delta<br />

connection offers no obvious advantage in these regards.<br />

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