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Re: Dynamo/generator designOne of the large advantages of an alternator is that the brute output energy is created in the stator which is normally directly connected to the diodes. The tiny excitation current is what runs through the brushes. This makes for a better design than the dynamo/generator whose power limitation is that the brute power must exit through the commutator/brushes. While the armature wire might make the power the commutator wire connections get to hot and it will shed the solder. The regulators job is to save the commutator. Either 6v or 12v the total power through the commutator is the limiting factor and size of the wire or 6-12 or any other voltage is much less important.????For the nit picker who may not know much about the 99% of alternators use a variable DC low powered rotor coil rather than stone age magnet excitation.That does not affect the power side of the alternator.It is too easy for others to understand the focus of the main discussion which is the SOURCE and routing of the POWER generated.
Re: Dynamo/generator design
One of the large advantages of an alternator is that the brute output energy is created in the stator which is normally directly connected to the diodes. The tiny excitation current is what runs through the brushes. This makes for a better design than the dynamo/generator whose power limitation is that the brute power must exit through the commutator/brushes. While the armature wire might make the power the commutator wire connections get to hot and it will shed the solder. The regulators job is to save the commutator. Either 6v or 12v the total power through the commutator is the limiting factor and size of the wire or 6-12 or any other voltage is much less important.
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For the nit picker who may not know much about the 99% of alternators use a variable DC low powered rotor coil rather than stone age magnet excitation.
That does not affect the power side of the alternator.
It is too easy for others to understand the focus of the main discussion which is the SOURCE and routing of the POWER generated.
