Timeline for How to tell whether a motor is an AC or DC motor?
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| Oct 16, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | Mister Mystère | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2017 at 7:58 | comment | added | KalleMP | Very small single phase AC squirrel cage motors are often of the shaded pole type (found in disco ball rotators, fans, record players etc.) and will not generate anything. | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 7:55 | comment | added | KalleMP | Stepper motors are divided into two general flavours. Permanent magnet and variable reluctance. The PM types make sort of OK polyphase generators, the VR types will present like an AC polyphase induction motor and not generate well. | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 12:51 | history | edited | Mister Mystère | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2016 at 11:22 | history | edited | Mister Mystère | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 8, 2016 at 15:07 | history | edited | Mister Mystère | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 8, 2016 at 15:01 | history | edited | Mister Mystère | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 8, 2016 at 12:51 | comment | added | jms | The field winding on a "Coiled rotor DC brushed" AKA universal motor is in the stator (not on the rotor as "rotor coil as a separate winding" would imply), since the armature (the commutated windings) must be on the rotor | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 12:20 | history | answered | Mister Mystère | CC BY-SA 3.0 |