EXERCISE ON DC MACHINE

1. A 4- pole lap - wound generator having 480 armature conductors

supplies a current of 150 A. if the brushes are given an actual lead of
100. Calculate the demagnetizing and cross magnetizing ampere turns
per pole.
2. A 4- pole generator supplies a current of 143A. It has 492 armature
conductors. A) Wave- wound, b) lap – wound. When delivering full
load, the brushes are given an actual lead of 100. Calculate the
demagnetizing ampere turns /per pole. This field winding is shunt
connected and takes 10A. Find the number of extra shunt field turns
necessary to neutralize this demagnetization.
3. A 100 KW, 240v shunt generator shown in figure below, has a field
resistance of 55Ω and armature reactance of 0.067Ω. Find the full load
generated voltage and the total power developed by the armature when
delivering full load output.

4. Ashunt generators deliver 450A at 230V and resistance of the shunt

field and armature are 50Ω and 0.03Ω respectively. Calculate the
generated e.m.f of generator?
5. A shunt generator gave the following results in the O.C.C. test at a
speed of 1000 r.p.m
Field current (A) 1 2 3 4 6 8 10
E.M.F (Volt) 90 185 251 290 324 345 360
The field resistance is adjusted to 50Ω and the terminal is 300V on load.
Armature resistance is 0.1Ω and assuming that the flux is reduced by 5%
due to armature reaction, fined the load supplied by the generator
6. The armature of a four pole, wave wound shunt generator has 120 slots with 4
conductors per slot. The flux per pole, ϕ = 0.05 Wb. The armature resistance is
0.05
Ω and the shunt field resistance 50 Ω. find the speed of the machine when
supplying 450A at a terminal voltage of 250 V.

7. A 4 pole Dc generator is delivering 20A at a load of 10Ω. If the

armature resistance is 0.5Ω and the shunt field resistance is 50Ω. Draw
the circuit diagram and calculate the induced e.m.f. and the efficiency of
the machine. Allow a drop of 1Volt per brush.

8. A 200 v dc shunt motor running at 1000 rpm takes an armature

current of 17.5A. It is required to reduce the speed to 600 rpm. What
must be the value of resistance to be inserted in the armature circuit if
the original armature resistance is 0.4Ω? Take armature current to be
constant during this process.

9. A 4-pole dc shunt generator with lap-connected armature supplies a

load of 100 A at 200 V. The armature resistance is 0.1  and the shunt
field resistance is 80. Find (i) total armature current, (ii) current per
armature path, and (iii) emf generated. Assume a brush contact drop of
2V.
10. A short-shunt compound generators delivers a load current of 30A at
220V and has armature, series field and shunt field resistances of 0.05Ω,
0.03Ω and 200Ω respectively. Calculate the generated voltage and
armature current. Allow 1v per brush for contact drop.

11. A500-V, 37.3kw, 1000r.p.m d.c shunt motor has on full load an
efficiency of 90%.The armature circuit resistance is 0.24Ω and there is
total voltage drop of 2Vat the brushes. The field current is
1.8A.Determine i)full load current ii)full load shaft torque in N-m
iii)Total resistance in motor starter to limit the starting current to 1.5
times the full load current.
12. Determine developed torque and lost torque of 220V, 4-pole series
motor with 800 conductors wave connected supplying a load of 8.2kw
by taking 45A from the mains. The flux per pole is 25mWb and its
armature circuit resistance is 0.6Ω.

13. The armature of a 6 pole, 6 circuit dc shunt motor takes 300 A at the
speed of 400 revolutions per minute. The flux per pole is 75 x 10-3 Wb.
The number of armature turns is 500. The torque lost in windage,
friction and iron losses can be assumed as 2.5 per cent. Calculate (i) the
torque developed by the armature, (ii) shaft torque and (iii) shaft power
in kW.