Electric Motors & Drives

Electric Motors and Drives is for non-specialist users of electric motors and drives. It fills the gap between academic textbooks (which are crammed with maths and theory not needed by most users) and the more prosaic 'handbooks' which are filled with useful detail but provide little opportunity for the development of any real insight or understanding. The book explores most of the widely-used modern types of motor and drive, including conventional and brushless D.C., induction motors (mains and inverter-fed), stepping motors, synchronous motors (mains and converter-fed) and reluctance motors. The author's approach - using a minimum of mathematics - has made this book equally popular as an outline for professionals and an introductory student text. The third edition includes additional diagrams and worked examples throughout. New topics include digital interfacing and control of drives, direct torque control of induction motors and current-fed operation in DC drives. The material on brushless servomotors has also been expanded.