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Concept
Winding factor
Summary
In power engineering, winding factor provides a way to compare of the effectiveness of different designs of stators for alternators. Winding factor is the ratio of electromotive force (EMF) produced by a stator having a short-pitch, distributed, or skewed winding, with a stator having full-pitch, concentrated, and non-skewed, windings.
For most alternators, the stator acts as the armature. Winding factor also applies to other electric machines, but this article focuses on winding factor as it applies to alternators.
Practical alternators have a short-pitched and distributed windings to reduce harmonics and maintain constant torque. Also, either the stator or rotor may be slightly skewed from the rotor's axis to reduce cogging torque. The armature winding of each phase may be distributed in a number of pole slots. Since the EMF induced in different slots are not in phase, their phasor sum is less than their numerical sum. This reduction factor is called distribution factor . The other factors that can reduce the winding factor are pitch factor and skew factor .
In alternator design, pitch means angle. The shaft makes a complete rotation in 360 degrees, and is called mechanical degrees. However, the current in a conductors makes a complete cycle in 360 electrical degrees. Electrical degrees and mechanical degrees are related as follows:
where P is the number of poles.
No matter how many poles, each pole always spans exactly 180 electrical degrees, and it is called pole pitch. Coil pitch is the number of electrical degrees spanned by the coil.
A full-pitched coil is 180 electrical degrees, meaning it spans the entire pole. A short-pitched coil is less than 180 electrical degrees, meaning it does not spans the entire pole. The amount the coil is short-pitched is given by the variable in electrical degrees:
and the pitch factor is:
A short pitched coil is also called chorded, in reference to the chord of a circle.
The winding factor can be calculated as
where
is the distribution factor.
is the pole factor.
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