I got a hold of a 5HP induction motor, I am rewinding it as a brushless alternator, I made a basic winding diagram that would result in a 9 pole alternator that would operate at full power @400RPM, and it may be able to be switched to 1200RPM or 3600RPM depending on how the windings are wired up (or 3 phase 3600,1800,1200,600RPM), but since i haven't done this before, I would like a second opinion on my design. I'm actually trying to drive the frequency up past what the motor was designed for , but that can of worms isn't relevant right now. (540HZ max, was shooting for 360HZ, but this core design does not permit that with single phase without leaving some of the slots unused)
Same coloured lines are pairs for single phase operation.
I will be using a binary capacitor bank to find the right cap size for this induction alternator, so don't worry about that. This is an experiment in order to learn, if the results are good enough, then it will become something more useful, and possibly a lot more valuable, but the primary objective is to learn what I can do with iron core tech, particularly since the information I'm looking for isn't that common since anyone dealing with anything besides mains frequency uses ferrite cores, and then pumps the frequency up to so many KHz/MHz.
Same coloured lines are pairs for single phase operation.
I will be using a binary capacitor bank to find the right cap size for this induction alternator, so don't worry about that. This is an experiment in order to learn, if the results are good enough, then it will become something more useful, and possibly a lot more valuable, but the primary objective is to learn what I can do with iron core tech, particularly since the information I'm looking for isn't that common since anyone dealing with anything besides mains frequency uses ferrite cores, and then pumps the frequency up to so many KHz/MHz.
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