Exam-hall rules, last machine
This is the boss. No calculator, and the numbers are chosen to fit in your head. One motor, four lines, and every answer feeds the next: field speed from the supply, slip from the strobe reading, input power from the efficiency, line current from the input power. Write each line down as you go — one early slip rolls all the way to the feeder.
The last line hides a pleasant accident worth knowing for life. A power factor of 0.866 is , which is — so exactly. At 400 V that is 600 watts per amp, and the whole three-phase calculation collapses into a division you can do standing at a starter panel.
Everything in the chapter rides in this one machine. 5★ under par here is the chapter crown. Clock in.
- = Synchronous speed (frequency)
- = Supply frequency (frequency)
- = Number of poles
- = Slip (concentration)
- = Synchronous speed (frequency)
- = Rotor speed (frequency)
- = Efficiency (concentration)
- = Output power (power)
- = Input power (power)
- = Full-load line current (electric current)
- = Shaft output power (power)
- = Line-to-line voltage (voltage)
- = Power factor
- = Efficiency (concentration)
no calculator in the boss room — the numbers are chosen to fit in your head