VINAYAKA MISSIONS UNIVERSITY AARUPADAI VEEDU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PAIYANOOR ELECTRICAL MACHINES I LAB HOTS (Higher Order Thinking

g Skills) Questions The student is expected to read each of the following questions carefully, identify the machine on which the experiment is to be conducted, the tests to be conducted and then write the aim of the experiment. The hints are given within brackets.

Conduct load test on the DC motor in which flux is practically constant and determine its performance characteristics. (DC shunt motor)

Conduct load test on the DC motor which has a high starting torque and determine its performance characteristics. (DC series motor)

Conduct load test on the DC motor which is used in electric traction and determine its performance characteristics. (DC series motor)

Conduct load test on the DC motor in which the torque is proportional to the square of the armature current before saturation and determine its performance characteristics.(DC series motor)

Control the speed of the given DC shunt motor by varying the armature voltage at constant field current and draw the graph. (Speed control armature control)

Control the speed of the given DC shunt motor by varying the field current at constant armature voltage and draw the graph. (Speed control flux control)

Conduct load test on the given electrical device which works on the principle of mutual induction and determine its efficiency and regulation. (Single phase transformer load test)

Conduct suitable tests to determine the parameters of the equivalent circuit of a static electrical device and draw the equivalent circuit. (OC & SC test on single phase transformer)

Predetermine the efficiencies of the given DC machine, in which flux is practically constant, at different loads indirectly without actually loading it and draw its performance curves (i) as a motor and (ii) as a generator. (Swinburnes test)

Predetermine the efficiencies of the given DC machine, in which flux is practically constant, at (a) (b) (c) of the full load and also at the full load indirectly by estimating the losses and draw its performance curves (i) as a motor and (ii) as a generator. (Swinburnes test)

Conduct a suitable test to determine the no load losses of the given DC machine whose flux is practically constant. (Separation of losses)

Conduct a suitable test on the given DC generator, whose field winding is excited by a separate source, to determine its magnetization characteristics. (DC separately excited generator OCC)

Conduct a suitable test on the given DC generator, whose field winding is excited by a separate source, to determine its load characteristics. (DC separately excited generator Load characteristics)

Conduct a suitable test on the given DC generator, whose field winding is connected in parallel with its armature winding, to determine its magnetization characteristics. (DC shunt generator OCC)

Conduct a suitable test on the given DC generator, whose field winding is connected in parallel with its armature winding, to determine its load characteristics. (DC shunt generator load characteristics)

Conduct a suitable test on the given DC generator which has two field windings, one of which is connected in parallel with the series combination of its armature winding and the other field winding, to determine its load characteristics in the following cases: (i) when the flux of one field winding aids that of the other field winding and (ii) when the flux of one field winding opposes that of the other. (DC Compound generator load test)