Glossary of Motor Terms
T/N and N/T characteristics
When choosing a motor, the manufacturer and user often discuss the characteristics (nature), and the most
important and fundamental characteristic at that time is the relationship between torque and rotational
speed.
When this is represented in a graph:
◇ If the vertical axis is torque and the horizontal axis is speed, it is called the T/N characteristic.
◇ If the vertical axis is the speed and the horizontal axis is the torque, it is called the N/T characteristic.
In many cases, output and efficiency are also shown superimposed on these graphs. The figure below shows an
example showing two representations of the characteristics of the same DC motor.