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Wound rotor and squirrel-cage rotor
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A 'squirrel cage' rotor is used in an a.c. inductionmotor, meaning that there is no electrical supply to that rotor with the currents in the rotor , instead, being the result of induced voltages caused by currents flowing in the field windings. A rotor of a d.c. motor, is electrically connected to the supply. The two types of motor work on completely different principles, so cannot use a squirrel cage rotor.
Standard induction motor has a closed squirrel cage rotor, where as open ended induction motor has split phase rotor.
Squirrel cage induction motors.
Wound rotor and squirrel-cage rotor
gagy
A 'squirrel cage' rotor is used in an a.c. inductionmotor, meaning that there is no electrical supply to that rotor with the currents in the rotor , instead, being the result of induced voltages caused by currents flowing in the field windings. A rotor of a d.c. motor, is electrically connected to the supply. The two types of motor work on completely different principles, so cannot use a squirrel cage rotor.
Standard induction motor has a closed squirrel cage rotor, where as open ended induction motor has split phase rotor.
Squirrel cage type is a type of Induction motor. It tells that the rotor is "squirrel cage" type. Another type of induction motor is with "slip ring" type of rotor. Squirrel cage type is most widely used Induction motor.
Squirrel cage induction motors.
to obtain high starting torque
When the number of rotor and stator poles are equal in the motor and if these rotor poles have opposite polarity with respect to the stator poles magnetic locking occurs. This magnetic locking is know as "Cogging" in 3 phase squirrel cage induction motor. In order to avoid this problem, the rotor slots housing the conductors are skewed by an angle of 5 degrees over the surface.
by adding external resistance to the shaft of rotor
The configuration of the rotor resembles the exercise wheel found in a squirrel cage. There is also a 'squirrel cage fan' that also is named for the resemblance.
The fan mounted on the shaft is for cooling of the stator and rotor. If the fan stops the motor gets overheated and burns out.
There no brushes in an induction motor. The rotor is independent and is a short-circuited cage of parallel bars.