Customer Reviews

Electric Motors and Drives, Second Edition

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For professional reasons I needed to get a clear overview on the fundamentals of electric motors and their drives, without delving into details. This book completely satisfied my requests. More intensively every day software is involved in the design of drives for electric motors. DSP and microcontrollers are the cores of this drives. Software engineers don't need to know the details of functionality of the motors therefore can get a benefit from reading this book in order to understand why some algorithms are implemented in the programs they develop. I found very interesting the explicit intention to explain the fundamentals of electric motors in a non quantitative way: in complicated formulas the essence of reality gets lost. Now, after reading this book, I can say that I have understood how the electric motors work.

The book presents the key points about how motors function without the labor of all the math. I would suggest this book as required reading prior to taking an electrical engineering class on motors to all undergrads. It will help when they are writing all those equations in one of the electromechanical machine classes. The beauty of the book is that it presents what you "need to walk around with" to understand motor functions.

This book, is simply amazing, it teaches the subject of electrical motor in a very simple/accessible and easy to follow way, that i never seen in any other motor book. I cant really prise it enough.. when i was 1st introduced to electric motors, i was soo puzzled..and i was always refered to use those classic electric machinery books, which are rather full of formuals, and lack physical explanations of the machines and their operation.I found this book the best, since it does the job with a very down to earth langauge( like those "for dummies" books).. It starts from level zero.. up to electric motor modelin,electric motor starting, variable speed drives, ..etc. Simply,This book is a good reference to start from.

This has got to be the very best technical book I own. The presentation is very readable and as intriguing as a good novel.

It will be simple to pick holes in the material covered because the field itself is huge so motor experts may not find much to interest them.

Beginners with some technical background will find the breadth of the content to be excellent.

Strongly recommended for anyone, like me, who is not an electrical engineer and has a need to use electric motors in the home workshop.

This is a great book, but it is not for entry level people. I have already read books on basic electicity and motor design and want to take the next step into Motor Control and Motor Circuits.
If someone wants an entry level book to start from basic electricity, Motors, Batteries and generation. I would recommend a reprint a Naval Electricians text book. ISBN: 0760752389. I found it at Barne's and Noble, but Amazon sells it. That books accelerates very quickly from basic electron flow to Advanced Motor design.

I bought this book based on the other two customer reviews, hoping to find a decently priced book that could answer some of my questions. It answered one of them. Oh, I'm sure all the other answers are in there somewhere, but I certainly can't find them. This is not a book for newbies to the field! Unless you've got a healthy understanding of electronics already, it sounds like the author is describing something from Star Trek. Sure, there's no math to worry about, but the jargon alone is enough to baffle the average Joe. You'd have to eat, sleep, and breathe science just to stay awake while reading it. Do they make an Electric Motors for Dummies...?

Lots of good theory and application on electric motors, but to get the most out of it, you really should have 2 semesters of college level physics and 1 semester of electrical engineering. The book covers the theory of how and why motors work, but could have been a better book with a simple explanation as a preface to each chapter. Also, a simple explanation of the differences between the various types motors. It seems that this is a sophmore level college text and is excellent for that purpose.

All information was very easy to understand. The range of machine types was wide. Although I would have liked it to include some much larger motors - generators information I was very satisfied with the purchase.

Although the material in this book is a complicated math oriented subject, only a few general equations are derived to illustrate points in the text (good). But the author seems more to be touting his experience with the motors he knows and his familiarity with their generalized calculated behaviour...he does not illustrate the fundamental 'why' of motor design types, the history of design and doesnt seem to relate the information in the book in a sequential way... just lots of generalized behaviors mapped out in graphs and equations which negate specifics. Good for general info... Im trying to learn the ins and outs of 540 size Remote control model motors and some of these general principals work directly against what makes my motor application run better.(admittedly not the specific focus of this book)

This may be more for someone trying to learn to talk turkey with an engineering buddy