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Showing posts with label random. Show all posts

Thursday, 21 January 2021

Decathlon Btwin mybike - Review

At the time of writing this post, I am thirty four years old and the bicycle is slightly over two years old. I am telling you this, just to establish that I have ridden quite a few bicycles in my lifetime and also that I have owned Btwin mybike long enough to provide you a comprehensive and reliable review of the product. 

Btwin - mybike

Monday, 18 January 2021

M.A (Psychology) - Project - IGNOU

It was a detour indeed considering I graduated in engineering. Nonetheless, sometime back I enrolled myself in the post-graduate psychology programme. I recently completed the course - M.A. (Psychology) from IGNOU and I thought I would put my project online to help others. It may serve as a general guidebook for anyone who's attempting to take on a new project and wish to conduct proper research in psychology. I should perhaps also mention that if you have decent knowledge of the two subjects - Research Design and Statistics, studying this project report and making use of it to design your own would be a cinch. This page would be of only general help and would let you know of the ways in which I collected data, combined it, analysed it and interpreted it. With this post, I intend to provide information related to the practical challenges that arise during research, these are essentially areas which a person may overlook due to lack of practical experience. 

Saturday, 19 September 2020

Reversing direction - Single phase motor

Before you buy motor for an application, it's better that you know how it's wired and if the direction can be easily changed or not. You can easily change the direction of a three-phase induction motor which has three output wires (i.e. wired as star or delta in stator) by simply interchanging connections of two of the stator leads. For example if previously the connections phase were RST, interchanging the leads would change the phase to RTS or SRT and the direction would change.

Reversing direction of a three-wire, three-phase induction motor

Unlike a three phase motor, reversing direction of a single phase motor can be a bit complicated. This is the problem that I recently had to face. I bought an old table saw and it came with a single phase motor and I had to reverse the direction of this motor. I would have used the motor in default configuration by simply using it from the other side, but it would have meant that the nut may get loose during operation which can be dangerous, so this is something that had to be done without fail. I followed the steps mentioned below to complete the task.