Electric Motors and Control Techniques

Get this book if you work with EV's or electric motors of any kind. The technical aspects are going to have to be breached by anyone who wants to work on, work with or use electric motors whatever function. If you want to know your stuff... this book belongs in your library.

i bought this on how to rewind motors and wire them up but was over my head on control and contactor hook up good info

Good book. Add to your library

love it

This book does a convincing job of covering the basic mechanics of the different motor types. The physics are presented with a clarity that sufficed but did not impress me. I approached this book having taken undergraduate level EM physics and some EE courses at a US university.The two topics that particularly interested me, Regenerative braking and Brushless DC motors, were not covered to my satisfaction. I felt that Regenerative braking could have been given more than the few paragraphs it received. I would have enjoyed a table summarizing all of the different motors' characteristics and applications.The book has not been revised recently, and there are many instances in which it shows its age. It seems, and here I paraphrase, that there are frequent examples of "In the future, electronics will be developed that..." or "This technology shows promise, but is not yet mature enough for practical application..." The final chapter is embarrassing to read. It contains spelling errors (eg "taut" for "tout"), cut and pasted sentences, sentences lacking clauses, and giddy speculation about cold fusion. It cites an experiment conducted at the "Stanford engineering department", without any publication details, principal authors, years, etc. I do not understand its inclusion.

Very good book

The author begins with plausible thought experiments that build to explain how common motors work. The remainder of the book is a large compendium of common circuits (both old and modern) used to control various motor types. His analysis of some designs were a bit oddly explained (but my background is RF and microwave design, not power electronics). I get something new and revealing every time I open the pages.

Thank you.

A conseiller à tous ceux qui portent un intérêt aux moteurs électriques

A reference book from way back, mine was lent out and never came back, you don't need it often but when you do it needs to be to hand.

Arrived on time not damaged, not had time to read it yet but flicking through quickly it looks okay, very good service

This is the book for anybody who works with motors and speed controllers(as i do).It will help you understand how they work by using lots of different circuit diagrams,also it explains the differences between all types of ac&dc motors, induction,synchronous,slip ring,squirrel cage,capacitor run and so on..

This book is in many ways a good effort. It is detailed and explores some unusual motor configurations. The first third is about various designs of electric motor and most of the rest is about controllers, with a shortish section at the end about electric vehicles and discussion of hyperflywheels, cold fusion and the like.The main problem for me was that it was dated. There was no mention of IGBTs for example and in the (brief) discussion of Electric Vehicle batteries, no mention of Nickel metal-hydride batteries. Lithium batteries were only mentioned as little more than a research project.The other thing I struggled with was that the text was poor at explaining principles: a few paragraphs of description, then it would slap a circuit diagram in front of you. I would recommend Austin Hughes' book  Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications  as a better written and far more up to date alternative Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications