TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FACULTY

ELECTRICAL MOTOR CONTROL

COURSE CODE BBV30103

COURSE NAME ELECTRICAL MOTOR CONTROL

DIRECT ON LINE (DOL) STARTER

EXPERIMENT TITLE
THREE PHASE

EXPERIMENT NUMBER 3
EXPERIMENT : DOL STARTER (Pemula Terus Ke Talian)

1. AIM

To provide knowledge in Direct online (DOL) Starter

2. OBJECTIVES

To familiarize the student with:

2.1 About control circuit and main circuit for D.O.L Starter.
2.2 Operation of AC Motor starting with D.O.L starter.
2.3 About the control equipment for Electrical Motor Control.

3. EQUIPMENT LIST

3.1 Contactor
3.2 Thermal Overload Relay (TOR)
3.3 On-Off Push Button
3.4 Miniature Circuit Breaker (MCB)
3.5 Molded Case Circuit Breaker (MCCB)
3.6 Pilot Lamp
3.7 3 Phase AC motor (3/4 ~ 3 hp)
3.8 Cable

4. THEORY

A.C induction motors are traditionally started and stopped by applying

and removing the A.C supply. In some cases, a full voltage start is acceptable,
but in many situations the start current must be reduce, and the reduced
voltage starter is employed.

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 The simplest form of motor starter for the induction motor is the Direct
On Line Starter. The DOL starter comprises switch and protection relay. See
figure 1.

Figure 1

The switch may be a manually operated load break switch, but more
commonly it would be an electromagnetic contactor which can be opened by
the thermal overload relay. Typically, the contactor will be controlled by
separate start and stop buttons, and an auxiliary contact is used as a hold in
contact. i.e the contactor is electrically latched closed while the motor is
operating.

Figure 2

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5. EXPERIMENT PROCEDURE

5.1 EXERCICE 1: CONTROL CIRCUIT

5.1.1 Connect the control circuit as show in Figure 3(a) or 3(b)

5.1.2 Take the incoming voltage from 1 of 3 line (R or Y or B) for
single phase.
5.1.3 Connect this line back to the neutral (N) by using black cable.
5.1.4 On the power supply to run the controlling circuit.
5.1.5 See the operation of this control circuit.

MCB
L

TOR

PB(STOP)

C PB(START)

N
TRIP MOTOR RUN

Figure 3 (a)

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 PB PB
(START) (STOP)
MCB TOR
L MOTOR

c
RUN
C

TRIP
TOR

Figure 3 (B)

5.2. EXERCISE 2: MAIN CIRCUIT

5.2.1 Connect the main circuit as shown in figure 4

5.2.2 Incoming supply for this circuit is from 3 phase line 415 V (R,Y,B
and N)
5.2.3 Connect Earth (E) to the 3 phase motor ground.
5.2.4 Join the circuit to AC Motor after Overload Relay (TOR) terminal.
5.2.5 Test this circuit with 3 phase supply to make full operation of
main circuit and controlling circuit to AC Motor.
5.2.6 See the operation of this D.O.L

6. DISCUSSION

6.1 Explain the result of this experiment

6.2 Explain the operation of Direct On Line Starter base on the
exercise 1 and 2.
6.3 What is the advantages and disadvantages of this DOL Starter.
6.4 Explain function of equipment list.

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 R Y B

MCCB

TOR

Figure 4 : Main Circuit Of D.O.L Starter