On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 19:09 +0200, Peter blodow wrote: > Hello Tom, > I also cannibalized such a washing machine motor from a junk machine, with > multi vee belt pulley etc. as described. It has brushes and separately > accessible field coil terminals. This brings me to the conclusion that the > motor is simply run with different field voltages to yield slow and fast > movement like in the good, old DC times - no three phase motor, no variable > frequency devices, but usable... :-( > > Best regards > Peter Blodow
The washing machine motors I am used to, are AC induction with, what appear to be, stator windings that are switched to change the number of stator poles. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
