- Always the series field winding is connected in series with armature.
- Hence it has to carry the armature current which directly gets decided by the load.
- So the current passing though series field winding is of high level.
- The voltage drop across series field winding gets added to the voltage drop across armature winding while deciding the back emf. This voltage drop must be very small.
- Hence as the current through series field winding is high, in order to keep voltage drop across it to a small value, its resistance is very low.
- The shunt field winding is directly connected across the rated supply voltage hence to limit current through it, resistance is very high.