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DC Separately Excited Shunt Generator: Instructions For Students

This lab document outlines objectives to study the properties of a separately excited DC shunt generator under no load and full load conditions. Students will obtain the magnetization curve of the generator and the armature voltage versus armature current load curve. The document discusses that a DC generator must be mechanically driven to produce electricity and requires excitation current from an external DC source, making it a separately excited generator.

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DC Separately Excited Shunt Generator: Instructions For Students

This lab document outlines objectives to study the properties of a separately excited DC shunt generator under no load and full load conditions. Students will obtain the magnetization curve of the generator and the armature voltage versus armature current load curve. The document discusses that a DC generator must be mechanically driven to produce electricity and requires excitation current from an external DC source, making it a separately excited generator.

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DC Separately

Excited Shunt
Generator
Instructions for
students: •You must read
this lab sheet prior to your
lab session. •Get your
circuit checked by the lab
instructor BEFORE you
switch ON the power
supply. OBJECTIVE • To
study the properties of the
separately excited DC
shunt generator under no
load and full-load
conditions. • To obtain the
magnetization curve of the
generator. • To obtain the
armature voltage vs
armature current load curve
of the generator.
DISCUSSION A DC machine
can run either as a motor
or as a generator. A motor
converts electrical power
into mechanical power
while a generator converts
mechanical power into
electrical power. A
generator must, therefore,
be mechanically driven in
order that it may produce
electricity. Since the field
winding is an
electromagnet, current
must flow through it to
produce a magnetic field.
This current is called the
excitation current, and can
be supplied to the field
winding in one of two
ways; it can come from a
separate, external DC
source, in which case the
generator is called a
separately excited
generator; or it can come
from the generator’s own
output, in which case the
generator is called a self-
excited generator.
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