motor 200 such as that made for use in industrial sized washing machines e g neptune washing machines e g one made by emerson electric model no m 10816 such a motor 200 is a type of switched reluctance motor with the stator and rotor of the motor 200 resembling that of a variable reluctance step motor both the stator and rotor not shown of the switched reluctance motor 200 have salient poles with phase coils mounted around diametrically opposite stator poles power delivered through cables 210 are switched by a controller not shown to provide energy to the stator coils of the motor 200 in a fashion that rotates the magnet field through the salient poles of the stator the rotor will align itself to the magnetic field when diametrically opposed stator pole windings are energized some of the rotor poles will be aligned and some will be out of alignment with the remaining unaligned stator poles when the magnetic field in the stator is stepped rotated to the next stator pole pair these will attract the unaligned rotor poles and sequentially continuing to perform this stepping rotating of the magnetic field will result in the rotor continually moving to try to align itself u201c catch up u201d to the appropriate minimum reluctance position of the energized stator pole windings thus the term u201c switched reluctance u201d when the rotor is out of alignment to the minimum reluctance position of the energized stator pole windings the inductance of the windings is proportionally less than maximum inductance to the misalignment thus allowing more current to flow in the windings and creating higher torque the attainable torque produced is theoretically limited only by the available energy supplied by the controller utilization of such a motor 200 provides for very high.