Electric Motors and Drives

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Summary: Good book, but some college needed.
Review: 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.

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Summary: Curious Non-Techies Beware!
Review: 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...?

Rating:
Summary: Good book, but some college needed.
Review: 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.

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Summary: An excellent review of the field of electric motors
Review: 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.