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1. A four-pole, DC generator with lap winding has 48 slots and 4 elements per slot.

How many coils does


it have? Assume one conductor per coil side.

2. A duplex lap wound, four-pole dc generator has 120 slots and four elements per slot. How many
commutator segments are there?

3. A 4-pole wave wound armature has 744 armature conductors in 62 slots. If the commutator has 186
segments, determine (a) the coil span (b) the number of conductors per coil.

4. A 4-pole dc generator with duplex lap winding has 48 slots and four elements per slot. The flux per
pole is 2.5 x 106 maxwells and it runs at 1500 rpm. What is the output voltage?

5. A 4-pole dc generator with simplex wave winding has 72 slots. The flux per pole is 2.88 x 106
maxwells. What is the speed of the prime mover when the open circuit voltage of the generator is 120
volts.

6. A dc generator is driven at a speed of 1000 rpm and generates 120 volts. Determine the generated
emf if the speed is reduced to 900 rpm while the flux is increased by 25 percent.

7. A simplex lap wound armature has 600 conductors and carries a current of 50 amperes per armature
current path. If the flux per pole is 30 mWb, determine the electromagnetic torque developed by the
armature?

8. The armature of a 4-pole lap wound dc motor has 850 conductors and draws an armature current of
70 A while the speed is 500 rpm. If the flux per pole is 60 mWb, determine the horsepower developed in
the armature.

9. If the power transmitted by the shaft of a motor is 20 hp and the torque exerted at the pulley is 220
N-m, what is the speed?

10. An 85 kW, 6 pole generator has an armature containing 66 slots in each of which are 12 conductors.
The armature winding is connected so that there are six parallel paths. If each pole produces 2.18x106
maxwells and the armature rotates at 870 rpm, calculate the generated voltage.
11. A four- pole generator, having lap-wound armature winding has 51 slots, each slot contains 20
conductors. What will be the voltage generated in the machine when driven at 1500 rpm assuming the
flux per pole to be 7 mWb?

12. Calculate the emf generated by a 4-pole wave wound generator having 65 slots with 12 conductors
per slot when driven at 1200 rpm. The flux per pole is 0.02 Wb.

13. A 4 pole lap wound dc generator has 600 conductors on its armature. The flux per pole is 0.02 Wb.
Calculate the (a) speed at which the generator must be run to generate 300 V. (b) what should be the
speed if the generator were wave wound.

14. The armature of a dc generator has 81 slots and the commutator has 243 segments. It is wound to
give lap winding having 1 turn per coil. If the flux per pole is 30 mWb, calculate the generated emf at a
speed of 1200 rpm. Number of poles is 6.

15. The armature of a 2-pole, 200 V generator has 400 conductors and runs at 300 rpm. If the number of
turns in each field coil is 1200, what is the average value of emf induced in each coil on breaking the
field if the flux dies away completely in 0.1 s?

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