The motor has again been reconfigured as a synchronous motor placing all the three windings in series with each other. This means all 30 coils are running together changing north/south at 6VAC 60 Hz. If before it ran at 360 RPM with only one winding, it should now run synchronously making 2 revs/second or 120 RPM. Which is the case in this video according to my stopwatch. Actually with all three phase coils wired in parallel it will run synchronously at 120 RPM as well. Interesting to have a stator which can be reconfigured at whim, also altering magnets on the rotor as desired.
This motor will now run as slow as 120 RPM synchronously on 6 VAC 60 Hz, or as slow as 30 RPM with three drive transistors as a stepper motor. There is still room for much improvement. I want it to run much slower to save cutting the many wooden gears required by a reduction train.

So I'm sitting on the fence as to whether to use this motor as a synchronous clock motor and never have to set the clock due to the time error corrections (TEC) my local power company graciously performs for their customers on the grid, or to use this motor with a high precision quartz oscillator and employ 'inhibition compensation' upon a crystal to gain both short and long term accuracy. My grid analyzer shows swings in generator frequencies that accumulate to shifts of as much as 40 seconds in a day eventually averaging to accurate time as the grid manager adjusts the speed of the generators at Niagara Falls. I think the European grid holds these swings to a much tighter tolerance.

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