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Feb29-12, 07:56 PM   #1
 

Why aren't the coils in electric motors insulated?


In all the electric motors I have taken apart, the coils on the armature have never been insulated. This has always confused me because, how could the coil make a sufficient magnetic field if it shorts out to the adjacent wires from lack of insulation?
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