Transients of current and electromagnetic torque during start-up in high-speed induction motors

High-speed motors are produced in Poland outside the machine-building industry. Only a few motors, adapted to specific purposes, are manufactured, for example, by plants that produce rolling-element bearings. These motors have found their application in driving high-speed grinders in bearing ring raceway production lines. The properties of motors fed with high-frequency voltage result mainly from the use of a closed slot in the rotor and the high frequency of supply voltage. The use of the closed rotor slot causes strong saturation of the magnetic circuit by the leakage flux around the slot. Taking account of the phenomenon of saturation of the magnetic circuit due to the leakage flux around the closed rotor slots is a complex issue. In the present article, this phenomenon was taken into consideration by introducing into the mathematical model of the motor, derived for a linear magnetic circuit, rotor leakage inductance dependent on rotor current. The relation was determined experimentally