A DC shunt motor is a motor using DC supply with the the inductor connected parallel to the armature.
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A shunt DC motor connects the armature and field windings in parallel or shunt with a common D.C. power source. This type of motor has good speed regulation even as the load varies, but does not have the starting torque of a series DC motor
Dc shunt motor is constant speed motor.Its speed is constant with armature current.This shunt motor is used in paper mills and drilling machines
Shunt Motor
A shunt dc motor has quite different characteristics from a series motor. Wired in series, the same current passes through the armature and the field winding and it is most unlikely that a shunt motor would have a field winding that is suitable for this. Therefore a shunt motor cannot be wired as a series motor in general because its field winding is designed for only a small current.
A shunt-wound DC motor can maintain its speed well when the load torque varies.