"Steve" writes:



Snipped the rest

An excellent book on the topic is "Electric Motors in the Home Workshop" by
Jim Cox.

The book describes that your motor is likely to be a commutator motor with a
small generator running off the drive shaft to allow the speed of the output
shaft to be measured.

I'd say that is highly unlikely in a washing machine.
Who/what would measure the speed?


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