Because fingers commute the current flowing through the coil pole motors, the contact assembly should be designed for the passage 142a and 204A. Judging by their appearance, he also remained unchanged, compared with the previous controllers. In the mid 80-ies Controller CS-303, without making significant changes in design, has become a KC-304M, which has inherited almost all the weaknesses of the 303rd. The term of operation of the CS-304M, especially in electric locomotives of the type K-14 with two engines of the DST-45, leaves much to be desired today. After the collapse of the Soviet Union at the Moscow factory "Dinamo" created a new controller, called the KC-305. The basis of the controller were contactors FE-46 FE-47, applied to the city electric. Possessing certain advantages, the controller KC-305, however, was unable to meet all the requirements of the controller of mine locomotive. Its disadvantages are include: – engine power, switching contactors FE-46 FE-47 is much more engine power mine locomotives.
Mine electric currents on the lower than estimated for contactors, so arcing Site contactor does not work in a mode that leads to premature contactor arc chutes fail – instead of flexible fingers, as the KS-304, installed contactors, due to what size and weight of CS-305 and a half times more than the KC-304. This significantly increases the cost of the controller and driver working conditions worsen, as mine locomotive cab is small. Analyzing the above, we have concluded on the need modernizing KC-304M. Formulated the following objectives: – to increase the switching capacity and enhance the resource while maintaining the overall dimensions – to achieve interchangeability of parts of the new controller and KS-304M – maintain a reasonable price to the consumer. All tasks were performed by the controller appeared CS-304U (reinforced). To increase the switching capacity in it were changed the following details of cam elements: – switching contacts – spring – arcing site. Reversing unit remained without major changes, except that the segment has a notch to increase the contact area, and for switching pole coils flexible fingers to double. These changes have made it possible to reduce heating of the current-carrying paths in the flow of rated current, and most importantly, current overload, when both engines operate in start-up.