REPUSION MOTOR

CONSTRUCTION
• Laminated stator core with one winding.
This winding is similar to the main or
running winding of a split-phase motor. The
stator is usually wound with four, six, or
eight poles.
• Rotor consisting of a slotted core into
which a winding is placed. The rotor is
similar in construction to the armature of a
DC motor. Thus, the rotor is called an
armature. The coils that make up this
armature winding are connected to a
commutator. The commutator has segments
or bars parallel to the armature shaft.
• The commutator can be radial or
vertical with brushes attached to it.
Here the brushes are movable on the
commutator surface with the rotor.
• The difference in construction that
makes a repulsion motor is that the
brushes on the rotor are short-
circuited with each other through a
low resistance conductor called
Jumper. There is no electrical
connection to the rotor, unlike the
rotor connection in a dc machine. The
stator winding is connected to the
single-phase ac supply and power to
the rotor is given through the
induction principle.
OPERATION OF REPUSION MOTOR

• The connection of the stator winding in a repulsion motor to a

single-phase line causes a field to be developed by the current in
the stator windings. This stator field induces a voltage and a
resultant current in the rotor windings. If the brushes are placed in
the proper position on the commutator segments, the current in the
armature windings sets up proper magnetic poles in the armature.
• These armature field poles have a set relationship to the stator field
poles. That is, the magnetic poles developed in the armature are
offset from the field poles of the stator winding by about 15
electrical degrees. Furthermore, because the instantaneous polarity
of the rotor poles is the same as that of the adjacent stator poles,
the repulsion torque created causes the rotation of the motor
armature.
CASE-1
The importance of the brushes being in
the proper position to develop
maximum torque. no torque is
developed when the brushes are placed
at right angles to the stator poles. This
is because the equal induced voltages
in the two halves of the armature
winding oppose each other at the
connection between the two sets of
brushes. Because no current is in the
windings, flux is not developed by the
armature windings. This position is
called soft neutral.
CASE-2
The brushes are in a position directly
under the center of the stator poles.
A heavy current exists in the
armature windings with the brushes
in this position, but there is still no
torque. The heavy current in the
armature windings sets up poles in
the armature. However, these poles
are centered with the stator poles,
and a torque is not created in either a
clockwise or counterclockwise
direction. This position is called hard
neutral.
CASE-3
The brushes have shifted from the center
of the stator poles 15 electrical degrees in
a counterclockwise direction. Thus,
magnetic poles of like polarity are set up
in the armature. These poles are 15
electrical degrees in a counterclockwise
direction from the stator pole centers. A
repulsion torque is created between the
stator and the rotor field poles of like
polarity. The torque causes the armature
to rotate in a counterclockwise direction.
A repulsion machine has a high starting
torque with a small starting current, and
a rapidly decreasing speed with an
increasing load.
CASE-4
The direction of rotation of a
repulsion motor is reversed if the
brushes are shifted 15 electrical
degrees from the stator field pole
centers in a clockwise direction, As a
result, magnetic poles of like polarity
are set up in the armature. These
poles are 15 electrical degrees in a
clockwise direction from the stator
pole centers.