Control of a 1 kW switched reluctance generator using triac

A Switched Reluctance Machine can be used as a self-excited generator if a capacitor is connected in parallel to each phase forming an L-C resonant circuit. In this case, the energy generated is related to the scanned area in the flux-current trajectory. This paper proposes a simple control of the energy that can be extracted from the system with a triac. This is the control element of current setting, that implies control of the flux-current area and, consequently, in the generated energy. The control technique described in this paper is patent pending.