If the stator windings of a synchronous motor are arranged to reduce the number of poles by half, how does this affect the rotor's speed?

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19 Oct 2018
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When the number of poles in the stator windings is halved, the synchronous speed of the rotor doubles because synchronous speed is inversely proportional to the number of poles.

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