On 18/05/18 19:53, tony sayer wrote:
In article , The Other Mike
scribeth thus
On Fri, 18 May 2018 12:16:41 +0100, Max Demian wrote:

On 17/05/2018 12:26, Bill Wright wrote:
On 17/05/2018 11:07, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Â*Â*Â* The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I don't actually understand why alternators were capable of supplying
more current though.

Because they were designed to do so.

Larger dynamos were also fitted to larger cars, etc.


Alternators spun more freely than dynamos.

I'm surprised that some pedant hasn't pointed out that all alternators
/are/ dynamos - which can be AC or DC - it's just a motor trade
convention that the word "dynamo" was kept for the original DC
generators when alternators came in.

Possibly because the pedants know that a dynamo usually has a commutator and
directly produces something resembling DC, an alternator usually has slip rings
and produces AC that has to be rectified.

Never hear then referring to the Alternators in a power station as
Dynamo's!..

Mmm. The Lord of the Dynamo?

http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/9/



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