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Electric Braking of DC Motors
Electric Braking of DC Motors
Electric Braking
The electric braking of a DC motor is of three types, (i) Rheostatic or dynamic braking,
(ii) Plugging or reverse current braking and (iii) Regenerative beaking.
Regenerative braking is used where, load on the motor has very high inertia (e.g in
electric trains). When applied voltage to the motor is reduced to less than back emf Eb,
obviously armature current Ia will get reversed, and hence armature torque is reversed.
Thus speed falls. As generated emf is greater than applied voltage (machine is acting as
a DC generator), power will be returned to the line, this action is called as regeneration.
Speed keeps falling, back emf Eb also falls until it becomes lower than applied voltage
and direction of armature current again becomes opposite to Eb.