Lecture 50

Tutorial

Lecture delivered by: Anusha Vadde

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 Objectives

At the end of this tutorial, student will be able to:

• Design the driver circuit for a stepper motor
• Evaluate the performance parameters of stepper motor

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 Problem on Special Machines

• A three-phase, variable reluctance stepper motor has a phase

winding resistance and average inductance of 1 Ω and 30 mH,
respectively. The phase winding rated current is desired to be 3 A.
Design a uni-polar drive circuit for this motor with a net ON Mode
and OFF Mode circuit time constants of 2 msec and 1 msec,
respectively.
Assume that the stepping rate is 300 steps per second.

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 Problem on Special Machines

• A stepper motor has a phase winding total resistance and average

inductance of 15 Ω and 30 mH, respectively. The phase winding
rated current is desired to be 3 A. The motor is driven by a bi-polar
drive circuit energized from a DC supply of 45 V. When the
transistors are turned OFF,
Determine
1. The time taken by the phase winding current to decay to zero,
2. The percentage of the stored inductive energy returned to the DC
source.

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 Summary

• The driver circuit can control the stepping angle and direction of
rotation of the stepper motor
• To avoid saturation the excited winding should discharge quickley

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