Mapa Institute of Technology

School of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer

Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering

EXPERIMENT NO. 7

The DC Compound Motor Cumulative and

Differential Long Shunt

GROUP 6
Leader: Sartin, Raymart P.
Blastique, Harold A.
Cabral, Angelo Albert B.
Engr. Paulo Tindogan
Instructor

GRADE

The DC Compound Motor Cumulative and Differential

Long Shunt
Harold A. Blastique#1, Angelo Albert B. Cabral#2, Raymart P. Sartin#3
#

School of EECE, Mapua Institue of Technology

Intramuros Manila, Philippines
1

harold_blastique@yahoo.com

angelo_albert07@yahoo.com

raymart.sartin@yahoo.com

Abstractthe experiment aims to verify the relationships

between torque and speed of a dc compound motor when its
series and shunt windings are connected long shunt cumulatively
and long shunt differentially. Upon performing the experiment
there are different conditions needed to attain before recording
the data, the diverter at 0.5 and 10 ohms. By analyzing the data
obtained, at diverter 0 ohms we can observe that the relationship
between speed and torque are linear to each other, meaning at
different torque the speed doesnt change. And at diverter 5 and
10 ohms as the torque increases the speed changes dramatically,
it decreases.
Keywords Speed, Armature current, Field current, Line
current, Efficiency

I. INTRODUCTION
In the actual compound generator, that is a machine having
both shunt and series excitation, the series excitation, the
series field is wound directly over the shunt field. The shunt
and series field coils around each of the main poles should be
so connected that they create flux in the same direction if the
tendency of the generator to lose voltage is to be counteracted.
When this is done, the machine is said to be cumulative
compounded. If some special reason, the action of the series
field must oppose that is the shunt field, the machine is
referred to as differential compounded.
By summarizing, when a compound generator has its
series field flux aiding its shunt field flux, the machine is said
to be cumulative compound. When the series field is
connected in reverse so that its field flux opposes the shunt
field flux, the generator is then differential compound.
II. METHODOLOGY
The materials used in the experiment were 2 FH2 MkIV
Test Bed, FH50 DC Compound Machine, FH3 MKIV
Instrumentation Frame, V2 DC Voltmeter, A2 DC Voltmeter.

Fig.7.1 Materials used in the experiment

After gathering all the materials, we now set up the

experiment. In this experiment, we are just going to use one
motor placed at the right side of the dynamometer, we are now
involved with motors and the right part of the machine is now
used where the frame is placed. Then we are now ready to
connect the circuit. Before connecting the circuit diagram, we
first individually check the connectivity of the wire using the
voltmeter. This will help us to be sure that there will be no
open circuit once we connect the circuit diagram. Having no
connectivity of the wire is one of the common errors that have
been done in the past which was told by our professor.
We now connect the circuit diagram,. We first connect the
outer loop in series, the armature rheostat, series field,
ammeter and armature were first connected in series then the
voltmeter was placed in parallel, Also the series combination
of shunt field and ammeter was placed in parallel with the
circuit rheostat are connected in series then the diverter was
placed in parallel with the series field.

Experiment 7 is about DC compound motor. We measured

the values of speed, armature current and field current and the
values obtained from the experiment are tabulated in Table
I,II, and III.
TABLE I
TORQUE, SPEED, ARMATURE CURRENT, FIELD CURRENT AND LINE CURRENT
AND EFFICIENCY OF A DC COMPOUND MOTOR WITHOUT DIVERTER

Fig.7.2 Set-up of the experiment

To run the motor, we need to turn on the three switches,

the main switch, and the green on button then start the prime
over to rotate the armature rheostat. Start rotating the motor
by rotating the rheostat to zero then we now increase the
breaker control setting until the motor develops an indicated
torque of 0.5 NM. We now adjust the supply voltage to 110 V
which was made constant.
After conducting the initial set ups, we now increase the
torque on the motor with a given interval based on the data
shown in the table. Then the values of torque and speed were
recorded in each value of torque on the motor.
This experiments involved two parts, the cumulative and
differential. Each part has also three corresponding set up of
the diverter. First, it is set to zero ohms, then to 5 ohms and
last is at 10 ohms resistance. The load torque will be adjusted
from 0.05 Nm to 1 Nm, with an interval of 0.05 Nm.
To obtain the connection of differential condition, the
connection of the series field should just be reversed then the
same procedure will be applied just like in the first part.

Torque

Speed

0.050
0.100
0.150
0.200
0.250
0.300
0.350
0.400
0.450
0.500
0.550
0.600
0.650
0.700
0.750
0.800
0.850
0.900
0.950
1.000

1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650
1.650

Armature
Current

Field
Current

Line
Current

Eff

0.150
0.220
0.300
0.300
0.380
0.450
0.520
0.590
0.670
0.750
0.840
0.900
0.900
1.000
1.100
1.150
1.200
1300
1.350
1.500

0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185
0.185

0.335
0.405
0.485
0.485
0.565
0.635
0.705
0.775
0.855
0.935
1.025
1.085
1.085
1.185
1.285
1.335
1.385
1.485
1.535
1.685

0.026
0.064
0.114
0.152
0.222
0.229
0.388
0.487
0.604
0.734
0.886
1.023
1.108
1.303
1.514
1.678
1.849
2.099
2.291
2.647

Based on the results of the experiment, Table 1 shows the

relationship of speed to the torque when there is zero diverter.
We observed that increasing the torque does not affect the
speed.

Fig.7-3 Setting-up the torque

We now investigate the relationship between the speed and

torque for each of the diverter settings, the data gathered were
plotted using the Microsoft Excel.

III. RESULTS AND DATA ANALYSIS

Fig. 7.4 The graph of Speed vs. Torque

TABLE II
TORQUE, SPEED, ARMATURE CURRENT, FIELD CURRENT AND LINE CURRENT
AND EFFICIENCY OF A DC COMPOUND MOTOR WITH DIVERTER AT 5

Torque

Speed

0.050
0.100
0.150
0.200
0.250
0.300
0.350
0.400
0.450
0.500
0.550
0.600
0.650
0.700
0.750
0.800
0.850
0.900
0.950
1.000

1.800
1.700
1.600
1.400
1.425
1.350
1.250
1.150
1.050
1.025
1.200
1.200
1.150
1.000
0.950
0.900
0.850
0.700
0.750

TABLE III
TORQUE, SPEED, ARMATURE CURRENT, FIELD CURRENT AND LINE CURRENT
AND EFFICIENCY OF A DC COMPOUND MOTOR WITH DIVERTER AT 10

Armature
Current

Field
Current

Line
Current

Eff

Torque

Speed

0.130
0.190
0.270
0.330
0.400
0.470
0.550
0.620
0.690
0.770
0.800
0.900
0.900
1.000
1.100
1.200
1.300
1.350
1.380
1.500

0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180
0.180

0.310
0.370
0.450
0.510
0.580
0.650
0.730
0.800
0.870
0.950
0.980
1.080
1.080
1.180
1.280
1.380
1.480
1.530
1.560
1.680

0.027
0.060
0.103
0.136
0.197
0.251
0.304
0.350
0.391
0.464
0.616
0.740
0.769
0.786
0.868
0.946
1.018
0.918
1.058
1.040

0.050
0.100
0.150
0.200
0.250
0.300
0.350
0.400
0.450
0.500
0.550
0.600
0.650
0.700
0.750
0.800
0.850
0.900
0.950
1.000

2.000
1.990
1.900
1.850
1.820
1.780
1.750
1.720
1.700
1.690
1.640
1.610
1.580
1.560
1.510
1.490
1.350
1.280
1.210

Armature
Current

Field
Current

Line
Current

Eff

0.300
0.380
0.460
0.580
0.690
0.790
0.890
1.020
1.100
1.230
1.330
1.480
1.580
1.720
1.880
2.050
2.280
2.380
2.560
1.180

0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160
0.160

0.460
0.540
0.620
0.740
0.850
0.950
1.050
1.180
1.260
1.390
1.490
1.640
1.740
1.880
2.040
2.210
2.440
2.540
2.720
2.910

0.044
0.102
0.168
0.261
0.368
0.483
0.612
0.773
0.918
1.118
1.279
1.508
1.701
1.054
2.199
2.508
2.665
2.786
2.077
3.269

Based on Table II, having a diverter of 5 , when the

torque increases, the speed decreases. We also observed that
the field current is constant all throughout the experiment. We
also observed that the maximum speed occurs at minimum
value of torque.

Based on Table III, we observed that having a diverter of

10 , when the torque increases, the speed also decreases. We
also observed that the maximum speed occurs at minimum
value of torque. Again, the field current is constant all
throughout the experiment.

Fig. 7.5 The graph of Speed vs. Torque

Fig. 7.6 The graph of Speed vs. Torque

For the overall observation, the speed decreases as torque

increases because speed is inversely proportional to the total
flux per pole for a DC compound motor. As the torque is
increased, the armature current increases as well as the line
current but the field current remains constant.

IV. CONCLUSION
The objective of this experiment is to investigate the
speed/torque characteristics of a DC motor when the series
and shunt fields are connected long shunt cumulatively and
long shunt differentially.
We can conclude that the speed is inversely proportional to
the torque. When torque applied increases, the armature
current also increases. We can conclude that the field current
remains unchanged during the experiment. Also, the line
current increased because it is dependent on the values of
armature and field current.
When torque increases, the efficiency also increases.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The group would like to thank each and everyone for the
participation in performing the experiment and for good
cooperation. The group would also like to thank out
professor, Engr. Paulo Tindogan, for giving us knowledge on
basic troubleshooting, the use of materials and reading a
schematic diagram. Lastly, our God for giving us the strength
and knowledge to perform every experiment correctly and on
time.
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