Electric Motor Control Lab

Environment

51 motor stations equipped with various real world industrial electric motors and control units such as:

Objectives

To learn to install DC motors, AC motors, single phase motors and three phase motors as well as how to troubleshoot motors and understand motor selection.

Projects

Students work on lab projects to learn motor setups and concepts such as three wire control, control relays, multiple stops and multiple starts, sequential starts, simultaneous starts, common overloads, reverse starts, electrical interlocks and more.