Reluctance motor is basically:

Reluctance motor:

• A single-phase reluctance motor is basically the same as the single-phase salient pole synchronous cage type induction motor, hence it is also called ​self-starting type synchronous motor
• The stator of the motor has the main and auxiliary winding
• The stator of the single-phase reluctance and induction motor is the same
• The rotor of a reluctance motor is a squirrel cage with some rotor teeth removed in certain places to provide the desired number of salient rotor poles
• The rotor is of unsymmetrical magnetic construction in order to vary reluctance path between stator and rotor
• It requires no D.C. field excitation for its operation
• The direction of rotation can be reversed ordinarily.