Amortisseur action of the squirrel cage

Single-phase motor theory is a somewhat controversial subject because two distinct single-phase motor theories, the rotary field and the cross flux theories, have prevailed for 50 years. The physical concepts of the actions taking place in the motor that are developed by these two theories are not altogether consistent with each other or with test results and so it seems that some action is in order to co-ordinate these two theories into a single one, with the elimination of the inconsistent elements of both. The proposition that the quadrature flux of the single-phase squirrel cage motor is developed by the amortisseur action of the squirrel cage is submitted as a suggestion along this line.