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| Sep 26 at 13:34 | comment | added | TeD van Loon | that encouragement however only kind of works if you plan to constantly use it under high enough load, as it is very hard to keep stable when not generating a lot of power and when not generating enough power it will rapidly cost more to encourage it than it generates. it is possible indeed, but I doubt many home hobbyists will have much succes pulling that off properly especially since the effect itself is hardly ever discussed or explained properly due to most people not understanding how it's working as generator can even be possible, or straight up rejecting it despite it working. | |
| Dec 20, 2018 at 10:11 | comment | added | Jon | Actually, a switched reluctance motor can be used as a generator. It just needs a little encouragement to start. | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 6:25 | comment | added | Harry Svensson | An easy way to check if any unknown motor would work as a generator or not would be to rotate the shaft with the terminals open, then short the terminals and rotate the shaft again and compare if it's more difficult to rotate with shorted terminals or not. | |
| Aug 4, 2017 at 19:55 | history | answered | Neil_UK | CC BY-SA 3.0 |