Converter Concepts Apply to Motor Drives
by Dennis L. Feucht
Innovatia Laboratories
Power electronics as a field consists of two main branches, power conversion
and motor drives. Good motor-drive design obviously requires extensive use
of motor control and driver concepts, and is less obviously benefited by
an understanding of power converter concepts. In the literature this subject-matter
is often referred to as power conversion, meaning electric-to-electric conversion.
(Motor-drive systems are also power converters: electrical- mechanical converters.)
This article highlights some power converter concepts that can be applied
to motor-drive design.
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