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Sam Goldwasser
 
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Jim Adney writes:

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:41:01 -0500 "Charles Schuler"
wrote:

Disassemble the motor and just take in the rotor, so that they don't
have to do any significant work.


IF, it's a wound rotor motor. Most ac rotors are of the squirrel cage
variety.


I was wondering about that. Wouldn't a squirrel cage motor still have
the same magnetic properties? I'm not sure, but I'd bet that such a
rotor would still pass the growler test, but it's hard to imagine a
squirrel cage rotor with a short in it, which, I believe is what the
OP asked about.


By definition, a squirrel cage rotor is all shorts.

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