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INDUCTION MOTOR

Three-phase sinusoidal balanced excitation in 3 stator phases produces a sinusoidally distributed field rotating at the excitation frequency. This field can be viewed as being created by a single equivalent sinusoidal winding which is excited with dc current and which is also rotating. The corresponding rotating stator current space vector is shown. The red hue indicates that the field is directed into the stator while the blue denotes a direction pointed toward the rotor. The more intense the color the higher is the field intensity.