Product Description

Electric Motors and Drives is intended for non-specialist users of electric motors and drives, filling the gap between maths- and theory-based academic textbooks and the more prosaic 'handbooks', which provide useful detail but little opportunity for the development of real insight and understanding. The book explores all of the widely-used modern types of motor and drive, including conventional and brushless D.C., induction motors and servo drives, providing readers with the knowledge to select the right technology for a given job.

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.

Austin Hughes' approach, using a minimum of maths, has established Electric Motors and Drives as a leading guide for electrical engineers and mechanical engineers, and the key to a complex subject for a wider readership, including technicians, managers and students.

* Acquire knowledge of and understanding of the capabilities and limitations of motors and drives without struggling through unnecessary maths and theory
* Updated material on the latest and most widely-used modern motors and drives, including brushless servomotors
* New edition includes additional diagrams and worked examples throughout

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35500 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-06
• Released on: 2005-11-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780750647182
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"This book is very readable, up-to-date and should be extremely useful to both users and o.e.m. designers. I unhesitatingly recommend it to any busy engineer who needs to make informed judgments about selecting the right drive system."
- Drives and Controls

"A very useful reference book for anyone wanting a comprehensive understanding of motors and drives ... I have not seen another book which covers this wide subject more comprehensively and in such an easy-to-read style."
- Silicon Chip, May 2006

"I would regard this book as a light but broad coverage of many motor and drive concepts that have been around a long time."
- Dennis Feucht, Innovatia.com

"The coverage of drive types and behaviors is thorough and up to date."
- Electrical Apparatus, May 2006

From the Publisher
* First edition (1990) has sold over 6000 copies. Drives and Controls on the first edition: 'This book is very readable, up-to-date and should be extremely useful to both users and o.e.m. designers. I unhesitatingly recommend it to any busy engineer who needs to make informed judgments about selecting the right drive system.' New features of the second edition: * New section on the cycloconverter drive. * More on switched relectance motor drives. * More on vector-controlled induction motor drives. * More on power switching devices. * New 'question and answer' sections on common problems and misconceptions. * Updating throughout. Electric Motors and Drives is for non-specialist users of electric motors and drives. It fills the gap between specialist textbooks (which are pitched at a level which is too academic for the average user) 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.

From the Back Cover
Electric Motors and Drives is intended for non-specialist users of electric motors and drives, filling the gap between maths- and theory-based academic textbooks and the more prosaic 'handbooks', which provide useful detail but little opportunity for the development of real insight and understanding. The book explores all of the widely-used modern types of motor and drive, including conventional and brushless D.C., induction motors and servo drives, providing readers with the knowledge to select the right technology for a given job.

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.

Austin Hughes' approach, using a minimum of maths, has established Electric Motors and Drives as a leading guide for electrical engineers and mechanical engineers, and the key to a complex subject for a wider readership, including technicians, managers and students.

Customer Reviews

A pleasant introduction to the world of electric motors
For professional reasons I needed to get a clear overview on the fundamentals of electric motors and their drives, without delving into details. This book completely satisfied my requests. More intensively every day software is involved in the design of drives for electric motors. DSP and microcontrollers are the cores of this drives. Software engineers don't need to know the details of functionality of the motors therefore can get a benefit from reading this book in order to understand why some algorithms are implemented in the programs they develop. I found very interesting the explicit intention to explain the fundamentals of electric motors in a non quantitative way: in complicated formulas the essence of reality gets lost. Now, after reading this book, I can say that I have understood how the electric motors work.

Motor basics presently clearly without being buried in math.
The book presents the key points about how motors function without the labor of all the math. I would suggest this book as required reading prior to taking an electrical engineering class on motors to all undergrads. It will help when they are writing all those equations in one of the electromechanical machine classes. The beauty of the book is that it presents what you "need to walk around with" to understand motor functions.

Curious Non-Techies Beware!
I bought this book based on the other two customer reviews, hoping to find a decently priced book that could answer some of my questions. It answered one of them. Oh, I'm sure all the other answers are in there somewhere, but I certainly can't find them. This is not a book for newbies to the field! Unless you've got a healthy understanding of electronics already, it sounds like the author is describing something from Star Trek. Sure, there's no math to worry about, but the jargon alone is enough to baffle the average Joe. You'd have to eat, sleep, and breathe science just to stay awake while reading it. Do they make an Electric Motors for Dummies...?