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Equalizer Rings

Equalizer rings are used in lap-wound electric machines to prevent circulating currents from flowing through the brushes. Circulating currents can occur due to uneven air gaps between poles, imperfect joints between magnetic components, or impurities in the magnetic materials. Equalizer rings connect points in the armature winding that should be at the same potential, causing circulating currents to flow within the winding instead of through the brushes. This avoids overheating and sparking at the brushes. Equalizer rings are installed at the back of the armature and reduce magnetic flux imbalance between parallel paths in the winding.

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Equalizer Rings

Equalizer rings are used in lap-wound electric machines to prevent circulating currents from flowing through the brushes. Circulating currents can occur due to uneven air gaps between poles, imperfect joints between magnetic components, or impurities in the magnetic materials. Equalizer rings connect points in the armature winding that should be at the same potential, causing circulating currents to flow within the winding instead of through the brushes. This avoids overheating and sparking at the brushes. Equalizer rings are installed at the back of the armature and reduce magnetic flux imbalance between parallel paths in the winding.

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EQUALIZER RINGS

For batteries operating in parallel, the circulating current will flow if their e.m.fs are unequal.
Similarly, in lap - wound machine, the circulating current will exist if in the emfs generated various
parallel paths are not equal.
The existence of circulating current in lap - wound machine may due to any one or all of the following
reason-
 The air gap under different poles may not be the same, due to wear of the bearings or faulty
assembly. As a result of it, some poles carry more flux than the other poles and, therefore,
different e.m.fs. are generated in the various parallel paths.
 The joints between pole cores and yokes or b/w pole - cores and pole - faces may not be
identical for all the poles. This result in different reluctance for the various magnetic circuit.
Even if the air gap is uniform, the pole flux will be different under the various pole and,
therefore, different e.m.fs are generated in the parallel circuits.
 The different reluctance for each magnetic path may also be due to the impurities or
imperfections in the materials constituting the magnetic circuit.
The circulating current result in overheating of the armature.
In order to avoid overloading and sparking at the brushes, it is essential to take some steps so that
circulating currents are not handled by the brushes. These steps consists in providing equalizer rings or
equalizer connections.
An equalizer ring has a low resistance conductor wire, which connects together the points in the
armature winding which should be at the same potentials.
The function of equalizer rings are-
 To cause the circulating current to flow within the armature winding itself, without letting them
pass through the brushes.
 To avoid unequal distribution of current at the brushes thereby helping to get sparkless
commutation.
 To save the brushes from handling the circulating currents.
 To reduce the magnetic flux unbalance that cause the potential difference in various parallel
paths.
It is usual to provide equalizer rings at the back of the armature i.e. at the other side of the commutator.
Equalizer rings are not require for simplex wave winding even if there is magnetic unbalance. This is due
to the fact that coil sides in two parallel paths are distributed under all the poles. In view of this, both
the parallel circuits are affected equally and there is therefore no need of equalizer rings in simplex
wave windings.

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