SPEED-CONTROLLEDDC MOTORS If precise speed control is needed, as is often the case in production machinery, another solution is to use a speed-controlled DC motor which operates from a controller that increases and decreases the current to the motor in the face of changing load to try to maintain constant speed. These speed-controlled (typically PM) DC motors will run from an AC source since the controller also converts AC to DC. The cost of this solution is high, however. Another possible solution is to provide a flywheel on the input shaft, which will store kinetic energy and help smooth out the speed variations introduced by load variations. Flywheels will be investigated in Chapter 11