Re: Initial setting for sync phase angle on an RSG

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• Subject: Re: Initial setting for sync phase angle on an RSG
• From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:56:56 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

you can use a three phase variac on three phase power to create a variable
phase shift.  A variac wired as a series inductor will also create a phase
shift, but it is a bit hard to figure out how much shift you'll get (since
the inductance of the variac isn't usually a handy nameplate number)

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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Initial setting for sync phase angle on an RSG
> Date: Thursday, February 10, 2000 1:54 PM
> 
> Original Poster: "Megavolt Nick" <tesla-at-fieldfamily.prontoserve.co.uk> 
> 
> Hi Bart,
>             this came up a while ago - it Think we decided a variac *in
> series* with the motor might be able to provide a  variable phase shift. 
As
> I'm doing a sync rotary for alex crow I might give it a go.
> 
> Regards
> Nick Field
> > Original Poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> > displacement of the drive motor via a long shaft. But, couldn't the
input
> > frequency
> > to the drive motor be adjusted out of phase? I'll have to think about
this
> more
> > (just a passing thought).
> 
> 
> 

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