I think you have made a fairly correct assumption, the fact that an RPC is a rotary transformer, Once running, the fed motor is in parallel to the RPC motor and is performing the same function, if the produced voltage on the mill motor is in phase and same amplitude as the rpc then the resultant current should be zero.
It would be like Putting two identical power sources in parallel. no current will flow between them.
What about when you load the mill motor though?
Al.
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