AC Motor Applications provides a comprehensive overview of different types of AC motors and how they operate. The main components of AC motors are stators and rotors. The two basic types of AC motors ...

We saw in Chapter 6 that the induction motor can only run efficiently at ow slips, i.e. close to the synchronous speed of the rotating field. The best method of speed control must therefore provide ...

Until the 1980s the conventional (brushed) d.c. machine was the automatic choice where speed or torque control is called for, and large numbers remain in service despite a declining market share that ...