Main purpose of Wye-Delta starter or other starter?
Main purpose of Wye-Delta starter or other starter?
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1.)Is it true that the motor especially induction motor has always had a 5-6 times at starting?
2.)Does the motor has a capability to return to its FLA durin g starting without any strting protection like wye-delta start?
2.)Does the motor has a capability to return to its FLA durin g starting without any strting protection like wye-delta start?





RE: Main purpose of Wye-Delta starter or other starter?
2). Yes. Motor draws what it needs to draw. Wye-delta starter is not the reason for it. Y-D starter helps to minimize the starting current during the starting period, in wye connection. This also produces much less torque during the starting. Torque varies in proportion to square of the voltage applied to the motor.
Google search on the topic or read some good books on the subject.
Rafiq Bulsara
http://www.srengineersct.com
RE: Main purpose of Wye-Delta starter or other starter?
Yes! And much much more.
Delta-wye starters are notorious for protection tripping and fuse blowing because they can cause huge current spikes.
During the transition the motor is disconnected from the network but still has a magnetic field - hence is a generator. This 'generator' goes into a random non-synchronized electrical position with regard to the power source. During the delta-reconnection the 'generator' can end up 180 electrical-degrees out of sync. This then causes an even greater,(much greater), current spike than a direct connection start. Hence, the blown fuses and tripped protection. It's also unpredictably random.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Main purpose of Wye-Delta starter or other starter?
Starters are supposed to help start a motor with a reduced current surge.
Delta-Wye starters are specifically to trade a fixed repeatable starting current surge for a reduced fixed repeatable starting surge with random, occasional, very large, damaging current spikes.
As jraef stated elsewhere it's not a reduced voltage starter it's a political starter.
Use a modern soft starter if at all possible.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Main purpose of Wye-Delta starter or other starter?
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Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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RE: Main purpose of Wye-Delta starter or other starter?
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