#variable frequency

VFD and 3-Phase Drill Press Upgrade:

  Over the last couple posts I have fitted this old single phase drill press with a new 3-phase motor and VFD drive. Now the wiring is complete, and it is ready to do some work. Video to follow.

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VFD and 3-phase Drill Press Upgrade Video

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VFD 3-Phase Drill Press Upgrade:

  I have always loved our little drill press, but low speed is never low enough and moving the belt is annoying. On a previous project, I became aware of the WEG CFW10 variable frequency drives and that is where the idea for this upgrade was born.

  The model I used on this project ( CFW100040SAPLZ )takes a 110V single-phase supply and outputs three-phase 230V power to the new three-phase 1/3 horse motor.

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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF VARIABLE FREQUENCY INDUCTION GENERATOR FOR SMALL SCALE WIND POWER DEVELOPMENT AT KUMBOTSO VILLAGE, KANO.

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF VARIABLE FREQUENCY INDUCTION GENERATOR FOR SMALL SCALE WIND POWER DEVELOPMENT AT KUMBOTSO VILLAGE, KANO.

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We’ve met amplifiers before in the form of op-amps. We’re going to see a lot more of them. In general terms, an amplifier makes a small signal bigger. But there’s some subtlety to this: not all signals are created equal. We’ve been looking at the effects of frequency on impedance, so we know that a signal of the same frequency will behave differently going through a capacitor than it will going through an inductor or a resistor. With what we know now, we have the power to create amplifiers that selectively boost some frequencies and attenuate others.

Let’s think a little bit about what this kind of amplification looks like. The kind of amp we’re all familiar with is an audio amp. If you’re amplifying an audio signal, you want all the stuff within human audible range (about 50 Hz - 15000 Hz) to be amplified equally. So the frequency response for your amplifier might look something like this:

A couple of things to notice about this graph. Gain is a unitless number describing the ratio of the output to the input. So a gain of 100 means the strength of the output is 100 times the strength of the input. The equation below shows a voltage gain, but you can also talk about other kinds of gain.

Note also that the frequency axis on the graph above is one a log scale. At the range of frequencies we’ll commonly be dealing with, this is a necessity just due to space constraints, but we’ll see later on that logarithmic graphs can give us some interesting insight into amplifier behavior.

So the amplifier in the graph above boosts signals within a range of about 50 Hz to 15 kHz more or less equally. It’s not perfect - you lose a little at the extreme high and low ranges, but there’s a solid midband letting most of the frequencies of interest come through. Suppose you wanted to boost the bass of your audio. Bass frequencies run about 40 Hz - 400 Hz. Your amplifier frequency response in this case might look like this:

So let’s take a quick look at how varying frequency changes the performance of a circuit. The circuit above has a capacitor, inductor, and resistor in series. We’d like to know what the output, Vout, is as a function of frequency.

We can get Vout just as we’d normally do with a voltage divider. Since we’re dealing with inductors and capacitors, frequency will show up here.

We can manipulate this a little to get it into the standardized form we looked at earlier and make the substitution of s for jω. We’re left with an equation that describes the behavior of Vout with regard to frequency.