Mapa Institute of Technology

School of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer

Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering

EXPERIMENT NO. 3

DC COMPOUND GENERATOR SELF-EXCITED

GROUP 6
Leader: Blastique, Harold A.
Cabral, Angelo Albert B.
Sartin, Raymart P.

Engr. Paulo Tindogan

Instructor

GRADE

DC Compound Generator Self-Excited

Harold A. Blastique#1, Angelo Albert B. Cabral#2, Raymart P. Sartin#3
#

School of EECE, Mapua Institue of Technology

Intramuros Manila, Philippines
1

harold_blastique@yahoo.com

angelo_albert07@yahoo.com

raymart.sartin@yahoo.com

Abstractthe core view point of this experiment is to study dc

compound generator and to verify the effect of varying certain
parameters at different sets of conditions. In dc compound
generator, if the excitation is produced by two field windings, one
connected to the full, line voltage and the other excited by the line
or armature current it is called compound dc generator.
Compound generator may be excited by current supplied to it by
its own armature or may be connected to an outside separate
supply. In the first generator is said to be self excited or
separately excited. When a compound generator operates
without load, when it is driven by a prime mover it is properly
excited. The generated voltage depends on two factors the speed
of rotation and the flux. And in the experiment we will be
focussing when the speed of rotation is held constant at 1500
rev/min the voltage will change in direct to the magnetism. And
when it is under a load, and load current is high it will produce
appreciable component of flux.

generally connected in series with the armature while the

shunt field coil is connected in parallel with the armature. If
series coil is left alone without any connection, then it
becomes a shunt machine with the other coil connected in
parallel.
II. METHODOLOGY
The materials used in the experiment were FH2 MkIV Test
Bed, FH50 DC Compound Machine, V2 DC Voltmeter, A2
DC Ammeter,FH3 MkIV Instrumentation frame, connecting
wires and R1 Resistive load.

Keywords Short Shunt, Compound field winding, Compound

load, Self-Excited Generator, Diverter

I. INTRODUCTION
DC machines arise from the wide variety of operating
characteristics which can be obtained by selection of the
method of excitation of the field windings. In studying dc
machinery there are three basic kinds of dc generators, namely
shunt, series and compound generators .
DC compund generator can be acquired by combining
shunt and series generator. In a compound generator, both
series and shunt excitation are combined. The shunt winding
can be connected either across the armature only or across
armature plus series field
The two field windings (shunt and series) on the
compound generator are connected so that their magnetic
fields aid each other. Thus, when the load current increases,
the current through the shunt field winding. However, if the
same increase in load current is made to flow through the
series field winding, it will increase the strength of the
magnetic field. For the decrease caused by the shunt winding.
The combined magnetic field strength remains. Almost
unchanged and little change in output voltage will take place
as the load goes from no load to full-load.
A compound generator has also two separate field coils
wound over the field poles. The coil having large number of
turns and thinner cross sectional area is called the shunt field
coil and the other coil having few numbers of turns and large
cross sectional area is called the series field coil. Series coil is

Fig.3.1 Materials used in the experiment

After gathering all the materials, we now place the two

motor at the left and right position of the dynamometer. Then
we are now ready to connect the circuit. Before connecting
the circuit diagram, we first individually check the
connectivity of the wire using the voltmeter, This will help us
to be sure that there will be no open circuit once we connect
the circuit diagram. Having no connectivity of the wire is one
of the common errors that have been done in the past which
was told by our professor. Then, we also checked the
resistivity of the R1 Resistive load using the voltmeter.
We now connect the circuit diagram. Like in the previous
experiment, there is only one circuit diagram to connect. Our
objective in this experiment is to investigate the relationship
between the output voltage and output current of a DC
generator with a shunt-connected and a cumulatively
connected series field, and driven at constant speed. Like also
in the previous experiment, to easily and correctly connect the

circuit diagram, it is advisable to connect first the bigger outer

loop, and then connect the one in parallel.

To investigate the relationship between the output voltage

and the output current of a DC generator with a shunt
connected field and a cumulatively connected series field, we
now plot the data, we use Microsoft excel to have an accurate
graph of the obtained results.
III. RESULTS AND DATA ANALYSIS
We can observe and state the relationship between the
output current and the output voltage with a diverter at
infinity, a diverter at 40 and a diverter at 10 by looking
on the table below (Table 1). As the knob of the 2000
rheostat is turned clockwise (or in a decreasing value from
2000 to 0 ), current is produced. The current increases
when the diverter is at infinity while the output voltage on the
diverter decreases. As we can see on Table 1, same thing
happened when the diverter is at 40 and 10 , an increase
on the current results to a decrease in voltage at the diverter.
TABLE I
COMPOUND GENERATOR

Fig.3.2 Set-up of the experiment

To run the generator, we need to turn on the three

switches, the main switch, and the green on button then start
the prime over to rotate the armature rheostat. Start rotating
the generator by moving the rheostat clockwise then adjust it
until the rotation becomes 1500 rev/min. We first set the 5o
ohms rheostat to 10 ohms, then we now adjust the 2000 ohms
rheostat by decreasing it to produce the desired current then
we now measured the voltage, The current will be adjusted
from 0 mA to 500 mA with an interval of 50 mA each trial.
Then, the same procedure will be applied in measuring the
output voltage but the diverter will now be set to 40 ohms and
then to infinity.
In the second part, Generator without compounding, the
same set up will be used except that the inverter is set to zero
ohms. Then the 2000 rheostat will be set to infinity then we
will again adjust it decreasingly to have the desired output
current, then we now measure the output voltage.
To obtain a good result the motor speed should be
maintain constant, we repeat the experiment because the data
gathered were not that good because we forgot to maintain the
motor to its constant speed.

Output
Current IL.
mA
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500

Diverter @
9.06
8.78
8.64
7.46
7.23
6.09
5.61
5.03
4.67
4.21
3.68

Output Voltage VL, V

Diverter @
Diverter @ 10
40

13.47
11.23
12.08
9.78
11.22
9.38
11.09
8.45
10.59
8.38
10.47
7.94
10.23
7.83
10.31
7.56
10.12
7.41
9.09
7.27
9.01
6.99

The graph of the values in Table 1 is seen on Fig. 2.7. We

observed from the graph that even though there is a change on
diverter condition, still the current increased while the output
voltage decreased.

Fig. 3.4 The graph of output current vs. output voltage with different diverter
conditions
Fig.3.3 Setting the required values

The table shows the values of output voltage when the

diverter is at 0 . When the rheostat value is decreased, the
current increases and the output voltage decreases. On the
120-60 mA range, the value of output voltage increases.
TABLE 2
GENERATOR WITHOUT COMPOUNDING

0
30
50
70
100
110
120
130

Output Voltage
Diverter @ 0
11.17
10.39
10.02
9.18
8.36
8.03
7.29
5.27

120
110
80
60

7.26
8.28
10.04
10.24

Output Current

We can observe from the graph that the analysis is

correct. We can also see on the graph that the certain values on
the graph make it like turning back to its original position.

IV. CONCLUSION
Experiment 3 is about self-excited compound generator.
The objective of this experiment is to investigate the
relationship between the output voltage and the output current
of a DC generator with a shunt-connected field and a
cumulatively connected series field, and driven at constant
speed.
By the aid of the rheostat, we are able to formulate the
relationship between the output current and output voltage
when the diverter is at different conditions.
Decreasing the value of the rheostat will produce current
(increasing). We concluded and proved that when the load
current is increased, the output voltage decreases with a
diverter at different conditions.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The group would like to thank each and everyone for the
participation in performing the experiment and for good
cooperation. The group would also like to thank out
professor, Engr. Paulo Tindogan, for giving us knowledge on
basic troubleshooting, the use of materials and reading a
schematic diagram. Lastly, our God for giving us the strength
and knowledge to perform every experiment correctly and on
time.
REFERENCES
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Fig. 3.5 The graph of output current vs. output voltage; diverter @ 0

DC Generator Basic Theory

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/worksheets/dcgen.html
Electrical machines direct and alternating current by Charles S. Siskind