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In a polyphase machine, being either a motor or a generator, there is provided a stator core having main stator windings wound about the stator core and main windings having a capacitor connected in series with each winding of the core. Switches are provided for each winding, and a trigger source for the switches operates with the capacitor and windings to ensure sequential current flow in opposite directions across the windings. Variable frequency pulses from a trigger results in a variable speed machine. With control windings wound on the stator, oppositely to the main windings there are currents in each phase which are substantially in-phase at no load with the currents of the corresponding radially adjacent the main windings. Such currents become out of phase with their main winding currents as the load increases. At low load the net flux density is low and as the load increases the flux density increases. With the centers of the poles of the control windings placed as close as physically possible between the poles of the main windings, the magnetic centering of the poles is improved. The voltage across the capacitor added to the input voltage may cause the stator core to switch periodically between non-saturated and saturated conditions.

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