The heat goes into the motor and controller.
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:06:16 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [EVDL] What is plug braking vs. dynamic braking?
>
> I see plug braking referred to in DC controllers, but very little is
> said about it. What is it?
>
> At first blush it sounds like dynamic braking, but wait -- I'm a
> railroad guy, so I'm familiar with dynamic braking as per locomotives:
> Reconfigure the traction motors as generators, then waste the regen into
> big racks of resistor grids. It's so effective that in hill country,
> they add locomotives to trains just to provide dynamic brakes.
>
> But in the schematics I see for plug braking, I don't see any resistor
> grids. Where does the heat go?
>
> Robert
>
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> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:06:16 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [EVDL] What is plug braking vs. dynamic braking?
>
> I see plug braking referred to in DC controllers, but very little is
> said about it. What is it?
>
> At first blush it sounds like dynamic braking, but wait -- I'm a
> railroad guy, so I'm familiar with dynamic braking as per locomotives:
> Reconfigure the traction motors as generators, then waste the regen into
> big racks of resistor grids. It's so effective that in hill country,
> they add locomotives to trains just to provide dynamic brakes.
>
> But in the schematics I see for plug braking, I don't see any resistor
> grids. Where does the heat go?
>
> Robert
>
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