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Cumulatively Compounded DC Generator Insights

A DC generator may not build up voltage during start up for several reasons: there may be no residual flux to start the process, the direction of rotation or field connections could be reversed opposing residual flux, or the field resistance could be too high. A DC generator operates cumulatively compounded when the shunt and main fields aid each other's flux, and differentially compounded when their fluxes subtract. A cumulatively compounded DC generator with long shunt connection has the shunt field wired in parallel further from the commutator than a short shunt configuration.

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Cumulatively Compounded DC Generator Insights

A DC generator may not build up voltage during start up for several reasons: there may be no residual flux to start the process, the direction of rotation or field connections could be reversed opposing residual flux, or the field resistance could be too high. A DC generator operates cumulatively compounded when the shunt and main fields aid each other's flux, and differentially compounded when their fluxes subtract. A cumulatively compounded DC generator with long shunt connection has the shunt field wired in parallel further from the commutator than a short shunt configuration.

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Question and Answer

1.) Is it possible for a cumulatively compounded DC generator


during start up not to build up? Explain your answer.
Yes and the reasons are as follows:
There may be no residual flux in the generator to start the process
going. If the residual flux RES=0 , then E A =0 , and the voltage
never builds up.
The direction of rotation of the generator may have been reversed, or
the connections of the field may have been reversed. In either case,
the residual flux produces an internal generated voltage E A . The
voltage E A produces a field current which produces a flux opposing
the residual flux, instead of adding to it. Under these circumstances,
the flux actually decreases below RES and no voltage can ever build
up.
The field resistance may be adjusted to a value greater than the
critical resistance.
2.) When does a dc generator operate cumulatively compounded
and when does it operate differentially compounded?
- A DC generator operate cumulatively compounded when the shunt
field flux assists the main field flux, produced by the main field connected in
series to the armature winding. If the two fields of a compound generator are
wound so that their magnetic fields aid one another, the generator is said to
be cumulatively-compounded. On the other hand, it operates differentially
compounded DC generator when a generator with both shunt and series
fields, but this time their magnetomotive forces subtract from each other. If
the two fields are wound so that their flux fields oppose one another, the
generator is said to be differentially-compounded.
3.) The wiring diagram shown in Fig.1 is known as a cumulatively
compounded dc generator with a short shunt connection. Draw the
wiring diagram of a cumulatively compounded dc generator with a
long shunt connection and give the applicable equations for voltage
and current.

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