There would be I^2R losses but they are not in the rotor-that is an iron rotor and a magnetized stator. On the other hand, there is a miniscule hysteresis loss in both the rotor and the stator.dirty_d said:im pretty sure there will always be a backemf in an electric motor, when the stator poles switch on the magnetic field around the poles create an opposite magnetic field in the iron rotor poles(i think), thats where the attraction comes from, the rotor is spinning and has a magnetic field so its going to create a backemf in the stator windings. there should also be RI^2 losses in the rotor since its made of iron and is spinning in a magnetic field.
True there would be that as well in the solid bulk iron.dirty_d said:oops, by RI^2 losses i meant the eddy current losses in the rotor.
fechter said:I don't think you can run it sensorless. I think it would need some kind of shaft encoder to send speed and position feedback to the controller.
fechter said:One drawback (not a serious one) is that VR motors are reportedly a bit more noisy than other motor types.
We should be seeing more of these motors show up in home appliances. If the volume of production gets high enough, the price will drop.![]()
fechter said:One advantage is for a 3 phase version, you only need 3 FET switches instead of 6 for a permanent magnet motor. This means the controller is less expensive to make.
safe said:Tidalforce Electric Bike : The Ideal Motor Solution?
This appears to be VERY close to being "it". The Tidalforce electric bike appears to have had a similiar design to the Switched Reluctance Inductance motor, but somehow they decided to go with the permanent magnets rather than relying on Inductance.So it's a very "near miss" to having got it just right in my opinion. Any time you resort to using a permanent magnet you force a shape onto your powerband. If there is a shape then there are tendencies toward "steady state" behavior. Inductance motors like full load... DC permanant magnets prefer "steady state" and low load. This is NOT a "sport" motor, but for casual riding it would have worked well.
Nice try though... 8)
The7 said:fechter said:One advantage is for a 3 phase version, you only need 3 FET switches instead of 6 for a permanent magnet motor. This means the controller is less expensive to make.
For 3-phase version, one could use 3 FET switches or 6 FET switches for a BLDC motors.
3 switches only supplies power to one phase at one instant.
6 switches will supply power to two phases at one instant and so the motor winding is more effectively used than that of 3 switches.
Refer to unipolar and bipolar drive in the Introduction of:
fechter said:One drawback (not a serious one) is that VR motors are reportedly a bit more noisy than other motor types.
fechter said:Most of the references I've seen in the past call them VR motors. I don't really care what we call them as long as everybody knows what we're talking about.
It does take a bit of doing but is not that complicated...a table, a 16 bit compare in a timer, and a cpu fast enough to set it up before the next switch event.fechter said:The torque ripple is at a fairly high frequency, so you won't feel it much in the frame of a bike, it just makes a loud whining noise. The power used to create the noise is dissipated (wasted), so anything to smooth out the power delivery ususally results in higher efficiency.
By shaping the waveform of the drive, you can make the torque output nearly constant. Waveform shaping would take a bit of extra processing, but with a decent DSP processor, it should not be that hard to implement.
Similar waveform shaping could be helpful with a permanent magnet motor.
Most of the references I've seen in the past call them VR motors. I don't really care what we call them as long as everybody knows what we're talking about.
The other way to smooth torque ripple is to feed the thing as AC instead of trapezoidal.safe said:Apparently there is a 6/4 (six outside coils and 4 inside rotor edges) configuration and higher like 8/6 and 10/8. The higher the number the more it smooths out the torque ripple, but also the more you increase the complexity of the motor.
The 6/4 seems about as simple as you can go before the torque ripple becomes unreasonable. Trying something like a 4/2 would likely not produce very good results.
The 6/4 seems to be more a less the "standard" at this point.