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This document contains 20 multiple choice questions related to electrical machines and generators. The questions cover topics like coil pitch, commutator pitch, winding types, voltage and speed relationships, efficiency calculations, and power calculations for DC machines.

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Problem Set

This document contains 20 multiple choice questions related to electrical machines and generators. The questions cover topics like coil pitch, commutator pitch, winding types, voltage and speed relationships, efficiency calculations, and power calculations for DC machines.

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1. A 4-pole, simplex wave-wound rotor generator has 57 slots, what is the coil pitch?

A. 7 B. 14 C. 4 D. 14.25
2. What is the commutator pitch of a 4-pole, duplex wave-wound armature having 120
commutator bars?
A. 122 or 118 bars B. 30 or 29 bars C. 61 or 59 bars D. 60 or 58 bars
REE – April 2001
3. The difference between the front pitch and the back pitch of a retrogressive lap winding is 2. If
the front pitch is 21, what is the back pitch?
A. 19 B. 23 C. 21 D. 21.5
REE – September 2008
4. How many parallel paths there will be in the armature of a 10-pole machine if the armature is
simplex lap wound?
A. 4 B. 12 C. 8 D. 10
5. What is the average voltage generated in a moving conductor if it cuts 2.5 × 106 maxwells in
1/40 second?
A. 1 Volt B. 2 Volts C. 10 Volts D. 100 Volts
REE – April 2011
6. An 8-pole dc machine has a simplex wave-wound armature with a current rating of 110
Amperes. Determine the current path.
A. 27.5 A B. 13.75 A C. 55 A D. 6.875 A
7. A six-pole dynamo, with interpoles, requires 360 inductors on its armature with three turns
per coil and two coil sides per slot. Determine the number of coils, slots, and commutator bars.
A. 120, 120, 120 B. 60, 60, 60 C. 60, 60, 120 D. 120, 60, 60
REE – September 2003
8. In a DC compound motor, what is the relation of the connection of motor field windings with
respect to the motor armature?
A. series B. parallel C. series-parallel D. delta-wye
REE – September 2008
9. When a generator is being driven at 1, 200 rpm, the generated emf is 230 Volts. What is the
generated emf if the field flux is decreased by 10% with the speed remains unchanged.
A. 205 V B. 207 V C. 200 V D. 203 V
REE – September 2008
10. A separately excited dc generator has a no-load terminal voltage of 230 Volts when driven at 1,
200 rpm with the field current set to 10 Amperes. Neglecting saturation, find the speed in rpm
so that generated voltage is 200 Volts with the field current constant at 10 Amperes.
A. 1, 022 B. 1, 043 C. 1, 090 D. 1, 067

REE – September 2010


11. What is the voltage induced in the armature winding of a 4-pole wave wound dc machine having
728 active conductors and running at 1, 600 rpm? The flux per pole is 30 mWb.
A. 1, 310.4 V B. 1, 092 V C. 1, 164.8 V D. 1, 237.6 V
REE – September 2005
12. What is the maximum voltage generated in a drum armature with concentrated windings
consisting of 300 series conductors in each path? The armature speed is 1,200 rpm. Each
conductor cuts twice through a field of 1.5 × 106 lines of force per revolution.
A. 282 V B. 267 V C. 273 V D. 256 V
13. A shunt generator delivers 195 Amperes at a terminal voltage of 250 Volts. The armature
resistance and the shunt field resistance are 0.2 and 50 ohms, respectively. The iron and the
friction losses are equal to 950 Watts. Find the commercial efficiency of the generator.
A. 94.2% B. 98.2% C. 95.9% D. 93.5%
14. In Problem No.12, find the mechanical efficiency.
A. 93.5% B. 95.9% C. 97.35% D. 98.2%
15. In Problem No.12, find the electrical efficiency.
A. 93.5% B. 95.9% C. 97.35% D. 98.2%
16. A dc generator has a mechanical efficiency at 98.2% and an electrical efficiency of 95.9%. Find
the commercial efficiency.
A. 96.5% B. 97.4% C. 98% D. 94.2%
17. A 4-pole, wave-wound, 750 rpm shunt generator has an armature and field resistances of 0.4
ohm and 200 ohms, respectively. The armature has 720 conductors and the flux per pole is
28.95 mWb. If the load resistance is 10 ohms, what is the terminal voltage of the machine?
A. 521 V B. 510 V C. 505 V D. 500 V
REE – April 2002
18. A certain shunt motor armature has a resistance of 0.07 Ω and current of 50 Amperes at 120
Volts. Determine the counter emf.
A. 108.5 V B. 116.5 V C. 112.2 V D. 118.3 V
19. A 440-Volt shunt motor has an armature resistance of 0.8 Ω and a field resistance of 200 Ω.
What is the back emf when giving an output of 7.46 kW at 85% efficiency?
A. 465.8 V B. 425.8 V C. 400 V D. 440 V
REE – September 2010
20. A motor is supplying 70 N-m of torque to its load. If the motor shaft is turning at 1,500 rpm,
what is the mechanical power to the load in watts?
A. 11, 467 B. 10, 996 C. 10, 681 D. 11, 781

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