AC Motor braking resistors

The only place for motor energy to go is into the load or into the resistor. To slow the motor the drive the energy has to go somwhere, its only path is back through the IGBT or similar device back to the DC bus, where a resistor bleeds off the excess energy to keep the DC voltage under control.

The AC/DC c>Hello, can someone give me a explanation on how braking resistors work on AC

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that AC motors are braked by introducing a DC current across the stator windings??

Fred

Read the post again boy, "motors controlled by a VFD"

Teddy Rubberford. Bizarre Bugger...

Hello, I will pipoint some issues that may clarify the facts:

1) VFD FOC techniques try to get equivalent behaviour to inverse braking but in such a way that differential speed between stator and rotor magnetic fields is controlled. A lagged field which makes rotor speed slow down is produced on stator windings. But then, Where does the kinetic energy goes? 2) These rotor and stator magnetic fields result in two differential voltages. The difference between them yields a voltage vector which generates a current flowing back into the VFD. This is an energy returning path which accounts for the dissipation of kinetic energy on the rotor axle. 3) The additional point to be clarified is why using this braking technology instead of using a magnetic field acting proportionally to axle speed?? just for the same reason for which VFD are used instead of direct feeding of motor. As FOC theories allow treating AC motors as if they were DC control-prone motors, so does VFD braking. In case Thyristor bridge is well dimensioned, any braking curve may be obtained. On the contrary, DC braking is cheaper but on its basic development it only allows a damped braking, with a counter-force proportional to speed, and a mechanical brake works always at the end of the braking cycle. Best Regards. Ignacio Simón Yarza. Mech eng Electronic and automatism eng

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