Generally, Crawling in squirrel cage induction motors is tendency to run stably at speeds as low as

(A) One-third of their synchronous speed

(B) One-fifth of their synchronous speed

(C) One-seventh of their synchronous speed

(D) One-ninth of their synchronous speed

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Answer :

Generally, Crawling in squirrel cage induction motors is tendency to run stably at speeds as low as One-seventh of their synchronous speed

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