Dobrowolski Three Wire Dynamo.—This type of dynamo was designed to operate a three wire system of distribution without a balancer. The armature is provided with insulated slip rings connected to suitable points in the armature winding and (by means of brushes) with choking coils meeting at a common point, to which the neutral wire of the system is connected, the main terminals being connected with the outside wires.
The machine is capable of feeding unbalanced loads without serious disturbance of the pressure on either side of the system.
The principle of the Dobrowolski three wire dynamo is illustrated in fig. 199. The armature A is tapped at two points, B and B′, and connected to slip rings C C′. A compensator or reactance coil D, between the two halves of which there is minimum magnetic leakage, is connected to C and C′ by brushes, and has its middle point tapped and connected to the neutral wire E.
It is clear, from the symmetry of the arrangement, that the center point of the coil must always be approximately midway in pressure between that of the brushes, and hence any unbalanced current will return into the armature, dividing equally between the two halves of the coil.
The arrangement forms a cheap and effective substitute for a balancer set, but lacks the adjustable properties of the latter.
There are various modifications of the arrangement. Thus more than two slip rings may be used. The compensator windings, however, should always be arranged so that the magnetizing effect of the neutral current is self-neutralized in the windings, as otherwise saturation occurs causing a very heavy alternating magnetizing component.