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direction. The contributions always add such that the total has a constant amplitude of 3/2; this<br />

action will be discussed when space vectors are introduced. 14<br />

Electrical and Mechanical Measures<br />

The speed at which the stator’s traveling MMF wave moves around the stator is determined by<br />

the electrical frequency of the phase current and by the number of poles in the machine. Figure<br />

3.1 showed a two pole machine in which the field rotates one mechanical revolution for every<br />

electrical cycle of the phase current. If the mechanical pitch of each coil is reduced by a factor of<br />

two, an identical set of coils are inserted into the stator and connected in series with the original<br />

coils, and a rotor with four magnets is used, four pole machine is created. 15 The developed view<br />

of a two-pole and four-pole motor are shown in Figure 3.12. After an entire electrical cycle has<br />

completed the plot will look exactly the same. Thus the two-pole motor will have advanced the<br />

space distribution of MMF through a full mechanical revolution but the four-pole motor will have<br />

advanced the space distribution of MMF by one-half a mechanical revolution. This action could<br />

be thought of as a magnetic “gear ratio.”<br />

14 The factor of 3/2 in Equation (3.6)/(3.7) is interesting and shows up frequently in the analysis of threephase<br />

machines. In each case the interpreted meaning and consequences will be different but it arises due to<br />

the same underlying cause which will be discussed throughout the report. In the case of Equation (3.6)/(3.7)<br />

the result it is a physical phenomenon. The spatial orientation of the windings, the isolated neutral, and the<br />

nature of three-phase quantities all act together in such a way that a set of balanced sinusoidal currents of<br />

unit amplitude produce a physically-existing MMF wave with a peak amplitude 3/2 larger than that which<br />

one phase would produce when excited by a current of unit amplitude; this is clear when examining Figure<br />

3.7 and Figure 3.8. As a comparison, for example, a similar analysis of a symmetrical five-phase, isolated<br />

neutral stator winding subject to unit-amplitude five-phase sinusoidal current would yield a factor of 5/2.<br />

15 In synchronous machines the number of rotor poles is always equal to the number of stator poles (which<br />

will always be a multiple of 2. However, it is possible to make a three-phase motor with only three teeth<br />

(for an example cross section, see [68, p.232]); this is still a two-pole stator and would employ a two-pole<br />

rotor.<br />

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