A british actor who mumbled a lot anyway, said that he needed a Magneto.
A fellow actor repeated the phrase, "Magneto."
OK if you're into accents, and explanations that make no sense,
have I got a video for you.
(Hint: the video claims that brushes act as rectifiers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzNIyl-sNSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzNIyl-sNSQ
Apparently it's popular in India to make complicated videos.
We use diodes and transistors, But in ancient times they used
motors next to other motors (AC motor + Commutator)
And that's as far as I'll ever get.
And that's as far as I'll ever get.
The very hot teacher in my 4th-grade genius class (it was only for a week or so)
made a generator motor from a magnet and a coil of wire.
(Later on in future years they made grapefruit and potato batteries)
But the demos were for flash and pizzazz, not to actually learn much, and
I still don't know what a magneto does
(commutator or not)
Get an old guy to explain flyback transformers on old TV's, and wonder (ok that's just me) why a flyback couldn't go in a car to fire off spark plugs.
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| By Teravolt at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25423550 |
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| WTF, "Armature?" Tease something to distraction, Dump it suddenly, And it really pisses them off. (Sounds familiar, somehow) |
*I* remember coils! Long cylinders with a cone on top, to be hooked onto something else and blamed for everything.
I guess one end of the cylinder hooked to an alternator (aka "magneto"?)
and the other end (the cone) to the distributor, but that's total guessing from a 7 year-old's memory.
crank the car, pull a plug, check for an arc, replace the coil/hit the alternator with a shoe
You prolly know how to subtract from a dollar to give change, and you wouldn't know what subtrahends and minuends are (dances on weekends?)
And so it is with any internet exposition I've found on armatures. A part of something that does something and produces a result,
But I like the fourth-grade demo of the rotating magnet in a stationary coil, (or vice versa) better than knowing, uhm, what that web-page said.
But I like the fourth-grade demo of the rotating magnet in a stationary coil, (or vice versa) better than knowing, uhm, what that web-page said.
if 2+2 is four, then 2^2 is four, and x^2=4 comes out to 2,
I can maybe know what a "Magneto" is.
Someday.
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