DESIGN OF A LOW COST COMPACT SIZE STARTER FOR LOW POWER WATER PUMPS

Santosh K. Verma, Amit Pal

Abstract: In rural parts of India voltage fluctuation is a very common phenomenon because of the unbalanced load. Sometimes this leads to rapid switching of the water pump installed in the household which may burn/damages the coil because of the overheating, as low power pumps doesn’t come with overheating protection. But if we use a starter with water pump then we can reduce its failure probability to a greater extent but generally people prefer online starting of those pumps as they are very low powered to avoid cost and complexity in installment. Here we have proposed a low cost and very compact size model of a starter which can be designed using very cheap and easily available components. It can be integrated with the pump by the manufacturer during the manufacturing to minimize the failure probability.

Keywords: Motor Starter, Automation, Induction Machine, Reduce Voltage Starter, Soft Starting, Water Pump etc…

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0404059