Tuesday, June 30, 2009

06/30/2009 - First Day / Motor Identification

First day researching the motors for the Electric powered snowmobile. There are 3 (very heavy) motors in the ECE project room. I picked one of them out and it contained the following identification information:

Aircraft DC Generator
MFG. Type No. 2CM65C1
Serial No. 2449282
MFG. Drawing No. 9411450
Volts: 120
Amps: 167
Speed / RPM: 3000/8000
General Electric

There is also what appears to be a Quality Assurance stamp on it.

Motor 2's SN: 7030881
Motor 3's SN: 2449xxx (unreadable)

All 3 motors appear to be the same type, which is DC.

Motor 1 has a block with 4 wires labeled A1, A2, F1, F2 which I am assuming is the Armature and Field nodes.

Motors 2 and 3 have different A/F blocks than motor 1. They are labeled with Anderson Power Products and seem more recent.

Another block is labeled:
Potter
Z1768
2.0 MFD
400 W.V.D.C.

I picked up 2 more books:

Electric Drives and Electromechanical Systems by Richard Crowder
Thyristor DC Drives by P.C. Sen

These are in addition to the books I already have:

Electrical Machines and Power Electronics by R.E. Steven
Control Systems Engineering by Norman S. Nise
Electric Machinery and Transformers by Bhag S. Guru