Mapa Institute of Technology

School of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer

Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering

EXPERIMENT NO. 6

The DC Series Motor

GROUP 6
Leader: Blastique, Harold A.
Cabral, Angelo Albert B.
Sartin, Raymart P.

Engr. Paulo Tindogan

Instructor

GRADE

The DC Series Motor

Harold A. Blastique#1, Angelo Albert B. Cabral#2, Raymart P. Sartin#3
#

School of EECE, Mapua Institue of Technology

Intramuros Manila, Philippines
1

harold_blastique@yahoo.com

angelo_albert07@yahoo.com

raymart.sartin@yahoo.com

Abstractthe core view point of this experiment is to study dc

series motor and to verify the effect of varying certain
parameters at different sets of conditions. In the experiment dc
series motor the armatures torque is held constant it means that
by setting the constant parameter which is again the torque, we
can identify and verify the relationships between speed of the
motor, currents power and its efficiency. Upon observing the
different values obtained we can say that as you increase the
armatures torque the motors speed decreases we can say that
armatures torque is inversely proportional to each other. While
the currents are increasing, the efficiency is obtained by
computing it by dividing the output power to the input power
manually and based from the data it shows a sinusoidal graph if
you graph efficiency of a dc series motor.

than shunt motor has a good accelerating torque and has a low
speed at high loads and dangerously speeds at low loads.
II. METHODOLOGY
The The materials used in the experiment were FH2 MkIV
Test Bed, FH50 DC Compound Machine, FH3 MKIV
Instrumentation Frame, V2 DC Voltmeter, A2 DC Voltmeter.

Keywords Speed, Torque, Series wound rotor, Armature

current, Power

I. INTRODUCTION
In the study of dc motor, it was learned that there are the
classification of dc motors namely: series, shunt and
compound. All of which are widely used in many applications.
In the experiment we will be focussing more on dc series
motor.
Dc series motors are used where huge starting torques are
necessary for street cars, cranes, hoist and for electric-railway
operation. In addition to the huge starting torque, there is
unique characteristic of series motor which makes it special
from the other kinds of dc series motor.
When a load comes on a series motor, it responds by
decreasing its speed and supplies the increased torque with a
small increase in current. A series motor however,
automatically slows down on such a grade because of
increased current demand, and so it develops more torque at
reduced speed. The drop in speed permits the motor to
develop a large torque with but with moderate increase of
power. Hence, under the same conditions, rating of the series
motor would be less than for a shunt motor. The speed is
inversely proportional to flux per pole, the flux per pole is
directly proportional to the armature current, and at no load,
and the armature current and the flux per pole will become
very small that will produce a very high speed. Thats why
Series Motor does not operate in no load condition.
In observing the performance of a dc motor we can say
that series motors has a unique characteristic that makes its
special from the other. It has a relatively huge starting torques

Fig.6.1 Materials used in the experiment

After gathering all the materials, we now place the two

motor at the left and right position of the dynamometer. Then
we are now ready to connect the circuit. Before connecting
the circuit diagram, we first individually check the
connectivity of the wire using the voltmeter, This will help us
to be sure that there will be no open circuit once we connect
the circuit diagram. Having no connectivity of the wire is one
of the common errors that have been done in the past which
was told by our professor. Then, we also checked the
resistivity of the R1 Resistive load using the voltmeter.
We now connect the circuit diagram, Unlike in the past
experiment, we are now going to use the set up for motors
which is placed at the right position of the plate. We first
connect the outer loop in series, the seres field, the motor and
the armature rheostat are connected in series then the
Voltmeter was placed in parallel with the circuit.

Experiment 6 is about DC series motor. We measured the

values of speed and current and values obtained from the
experiment are tabulated in Table 1. The input power, output
power and efficiency are calculated using the given formulas.
TABLE I
TORQUE VS. SPEED, VOLTAGE AND CURRENT

Fig.6.2 Set-up of the experiment

To run the motor, we need to turn on the three switches,

the main switch, and the green on button then start the prime
over to rotate the armature rheostat. Start rotating the motor
by rotating the rheostat to zero then we now increase the
breaker control setting until the motor develops an indicated
torque of 0.4 NM. We now adjust the supply voltage to 110 V
which was made constant.
After conducting the initial set ups, we now increase the
torque on the motor from 0.10 Nm to 0.75 Nm with an
interval of 5 Nm. Then the values of speed, voltage and
current were measured in each value of torque on the motor.

Torque
(Nm)

Speed
(rpm)

Voltage
(V)

Current
(A)

0.10
0.15
0.20
0.25
0.30
0.35
0.40
0.45
0.50
0.55
0.60
0.65
0.70
0.75

2900
2800
2700
2650
2500
2300
2100
2000
1750
1650
1500
1350
1250
1050

110
110
110
110
110
110
110
110
110
110
110
110
110
110

0.6
0.8
0.9
1.1
1.2
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.8
1.9
2.05
2.2
2.3
2.4

Based on the results of the experiment, Table 1 shows that

there is decrease in speed when torque is increased. We also
observed that the current is increased when torque is
increased. The supply voltage is kept constant at 110 V.

Fig. 6.4 The graph of Torque vs. Speed, Current and Efficiency

Fig.6.3 Setting-up the torque of the motor

After gathering all the data, we computed for the input and
output power and its efficiency. Then, the graphs of speed,
efficiency and current against torque were plotted using the
Microsoft Excel. After plotting the graph, we can now
investigate the relationship between the speed, power output
and efficiency of a DC Series Motor and the torque produced
by the motor.
III. RESULTS AND DATA ANALYSIS

TABLE III
TORQUE VS. SPEED, VOLTAGE AND CURRENT

Torque
(Nm)

InputPower
(W)

Output Power
(W)

Efficiency

0.10
0.15
0.20
0.25
0.30
0.35
0.40
0.45
0.50
0.55
0.60
0.65
0.70
0.75

66
88
99
121
132
154
165
176
198
209
225.5
242
253
264

30.37
43.98
54.59
69.38
78.54
84.30
87.97
94.25
91.63
95.03
94.25
91.89
91.63
82.47

0.46
0.5
0.55
0.57
0.60
0.55
0.53
0.54
0.46
0.45
0.42
0.38
0.36
0.31

From Table 2, which is only the continuation of Table1,

shows us that the efficiency is increasing but it comes to a
point where the value of efficiency is decreasing, even though
the torque is still increasing. The input and output power are
calculated and the table shows that increasing the torque also
increases the input power; however the value of the output
power is increasing and decreasing at a certain value of
torque.

The objective of this experiment is to investigate the

relationships between the speed, the power output and the
efficiency of a DC series motor and the torque produced by
the motor through experimentation.
We can conclude that the speed of the motor at no lad
condition is very fast. But when torque is applied, the current
increases and applying torque tends the motor to slow down,
so the speed decreases.
We can conclude that in a DC series motor, the speed is
inversely proportional with the torque. Also, the current and
input power is directly proportional with the torque. On the
other hand, the output power and efficiency increases and
decreases at a certain value of torque.
DC series motor are load dependent so its speed regulation
is poor.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The group would like to thank each and everyone for the
participation in performing the experiment and for good
cooperation. The group would also like to thank out
professor, Engr. Paulo Tindogan, for giving us knowledge on
basic troubleshooting, the use of materials and reading a
schematic diagram. Lastly, our God for giving us the strength
and knowledge to perform every experiment correctly and on
time.
REFERENCES

IV. CONCLUSION

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Electrical machines direct and alternating current by Charles S. Siskind

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