General Question on Power Output of Motor

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Benjamin0904

Joined Oct 3, 2020
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Hi everyone. I have a question on the basic workings of a DC generator. I have a 3000 RPM @ 115V Motor with 93% conversion efficiency. It is an 800W motor. If I spin the motor at a constant 500rpm, how many Volts and Amps am I producing. I simply don't understand the math behind it.

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Benjamin
 

Chris65536

Joined Nov 11, 2019
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Hi everyone. I have a question on the basic workings of a DC generator. I have a 3000 RPM @ 115V Motor with 93% conversion efficiency. It is an 800W motor. If I spin the motor at a constant 500rpm, how many Volts and Amps am I producing. I simply don't understand the math behind it.
Is it a permanent magnet DC motor? That's the only way I could see this working. The voltage would scale almost linearly with the RPM, so 1/6 of 115V is about 19V. The amps drawn depends on the load. I suppose the maximum amps would go down with RPM too, but I'm not really sure. 115V sounds like an AC motor though, and that won't work for this.
 

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Benjamin0904

Joined Oct 3, 2020
32
Yeah its permanent magnet, but I am pretty sure I was not exact with the 93% conversion efficiency. Somewhere close to there though. It's not AC.
Thanks.
 
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