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draw the line between the solenoidal windings and large slot widths of the switched reluctance<br />

machine (whose stator is intended to be salient) and the slots of a non-salient machine (such as a<br />

sinusoidal PM synchronous machine) where the slotting causes undesired parasitic effects. Those<br />

effects are minimized when the width of the slots are “small” compared to those of the teeth or<br />

when there are many slots per pole. As far as the author can tell, for the non-salient PM brushless<br />

motors considered in this report, the only effect of slotting that needs to be considered is the<br />

cogging torque that results as the rotor magnets attempt to align with the teeth.<br />

Armature and Field<br />

The categorization based on saliency was presented primarily to discuss torque production and<br />

circuit models later in the report. However that categorization also helps illustrate the fact that<br />

motors from all three groups must have at least one winding. As a consequence of the mechanical<br />

motion of the rotor this winding will have a voltage induced in it—this is the armature winding. It<br />

is the induction of a voltage that makes this winding different the other winding that a motor may<br />

have (as both windings will create a field).<br />

If the motor has a second magnetic field, that field is produced by either a permanent magnet or<br />

another winding; this field is usually called the field. If a magnet is used it is called a PM<br />

machine; if a winding is used it is called a wound-field machine. In a brush DC motor, the field is<br />

produced by the stator; in a synchronous motor, the field is produced by the rotor. (Induction<br />

motors are not well described by the words armature and field so the circuits are generally called<br />

the stator and rotor circuits, respectively.)<br />

Brush DC machines always have the armature wound on the rotor; the armature winding is<br />

always called the armature winding (or simply, the armature). Contrarily, all traditional (gridtied)<br />

synchronous machines and all brushless machines have the armature wound on the stator.<br />

For this reason, the armature winding is often called the stator winding (or simply, the stator).<br />

This misnomer is as widely accepted in the vernacular as the phrase “the flow of electric current”<br />

and thus will be used in this report.<br />

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