MUSH WINDING

 This winding is very commonly used for small induction

motors having circular conductors.
 This is a single layer winding where all the coils have
same span (unlike the concentric winding where coils
have different spans).
 Each coil is wound on a former, making one coil side
shorter than the other.
 The winding is put on the core by dropping the
conductors, one by one into previously insulated slots.
 The short coil sides are placed first and then the long
coil sides. The long and short coil sides occupy
alternate slots.
 It will also observed that the ends of coil situated in
adjacent slots cross each other i.e. proceed to left and
right alternatively.
 That is why sometimes it is known as a basket
winding.
 Coil-sides of mush winding
arrangement inside the slots

1 3 Long coil-sides

2 4
Short coil-sides
Coil-pitch
Basket winding
 Points to be remembered
The following should be kept in mind while designing a
mush winding, that is
 The coils have a constant span.
 There is only one coil side per slot and therefore the
number of coil sides are equal to number of slots.
 There is only one coil group per phase per pole pair
and therefore, the maximum number of parallel paths
per phase is equal to pole pair.
 The coil span should be odd. Thus for a 4 pole 36 slot
machine, coil span should be 36/4=9 while for a 4 pole
24 slot machine, the coil span should not be 24/4=6; it
should be either 5 or 7 slots. This because a coil
consists of a long and a short coil side. The long and
short coil sides are placed in alternate slots and hence
one coil will be in a even numbered slot and the other
in a odd number slot giving a coil span which is an odd
integer.
 Example#2: on mush winding
Given data
S=12; p=2;m=3; a=1; type=Mush
• Solution
a) The number of coil groups, K
P 2
K  3  3  3 i.e. there is one coil group per phase
2 2
b) The number of slots per pole per phase, q
S 12
q  2
m  p 3 2 i.e. there are two coils in a group
c) Coil pitch
S 12 Full-Pitch
YS   6
p 2
This is an even number and hence winding is not possible with an even coil span .
There fore , it is shortened by one slot and a coil span of 5 slots is used.
d) The electrical angle,    180  P  180  2  360

e) The angle between adjacent slots, 

 360
   30
S 12
f) The distance between the beginning of each phase, 
120 120
   4 slots
 30

g) If the beginning of Phase A is slot 1, then the beginning of phase B is slot

1+=5 and the beginning of phase C is slot 1+2=1+8=9
 Phase sequence

A
C’
B’ 600

C B

A’

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A A C’ C’ B B A’ A’ C C B’ B’
 Connection Diagrams

Phase A
Phase B Phase C
A B C

+5 5 12 L 9 4 L
1 8 L

2 +5 7 R 6 11 R 10 3 R

A’ B’ C’
 PROCEDURE FOR CONSTRUCTING OF
MUSH WINDINGS
Data: S= 12, P = 2, a = 1, q = 2, K = 3

1. Draw 12 vertical lines with short and long coil-sides

consequently and number them

1 3 5 9 11
7

2 4 6 8 10 12
1 3 5 9 11
7

2 4 6 8 10 12
 Coil group of Phase A
• Lay down coil-group belonging to phase A
inside the slots 1,2 and 7,8.

8
1
1 3 5 7 9 11

2 4 6 8 10 12
1
8
 Coil group of Phase B

12
5

8
1
1 3 5 7 9 11

2 4 6 8 10 12
1
8

5
12
 Coil group of Phase C

12
5
10
3
8
1
1 3 5 7 9 11

2 4 6 8 10 12
1
8
3
10
5
12
 Current direction
N S
1-6 7-12
12
5
10
3
8
1
1 3 5 7 9 11

N S
2 4 6 8 10 12
1
8
3
10
5
12
 Phase A: Coil group interconnection
12
5
10
3
8
1
1 3 5 7 9 11

N S
2 4 6 8 10 12
1
8
3
10
5
12

A A’
 Phase B: Coil group interconnection
12
5
10
3
8
1
1 3 5 7 9 11

N S
2 4 6 8 10 12
1
8
3
10
5
12

A B A’ B’
 Phase C: Coil group interconnection

12
5
10
3
8
1
1 3 5 7 9 11

N S
2 4 6 8 10 12
1
8
3
10
5
12

A C’ B A’ C B’
 Terminals

12
5
10
3
8
1
1 3 5 7 9 11

N S
2 4 6 8 10 12
1
8
3
10
5
12

A C’ B A’ C B’