This document discusses three-phase systems including:
- Three-phase systems combine three single-phase systems with generator coils spaced 120 degrees apart, providing constant power output.
- Advantages over single-phase include lighter weight, wider voltage range, higher efficiency, and constant torque.
- Three-phase voltage is generated by rotating coils in a magnetic field, with each phase lagging the previous by 120 degrees.
- Connections can be star or delta, with star being the more common physical configuration and delta providing higher voltages.
- Calculations allow determining line and phase voltages and currents using relationships between the values.