How a Motor or Generator works?

[Moni]

How a Motor or Generetor works ?

 

[kyle_soule]

Originally posted by Moni
How a Motor or Generetor works ?

I'm assuming you mean an electric generator as opposed to a generator ran by fuel?

In this case I searched google and found this site:
How a generator works.

Also, if this is not what you wanted a google search (with quotes " ") will do wonders for you, the sites usually provide for pictures, which don't seem to work well on PF.

 

[russ_watters]

Originally posted by Moni
How a Motor or Generetor works ?

Since harnessing and creating electricity work the same way, apply electricity to a motor and it spins. Spin a motor and it becomes a generator.

Its just rotating electromagnets.

 

[Moni]

But what is the basic difference between AC and DC machines?

What is eddy current loss?

why tranformer rating is not KW why it is KVA?

 

[russ_watters]

Originally posted by Moni
But what is the basic difference between AC and DC machines?

What is eddy current loss?

why tranformer rating is not KW why it is KVA?

ac is alternating current, dc is direct current (constant). KVA is used because KW doesn't take into account phase for ac.

Not sure about eddy currents.

Maybe you should use google. It sounds like you have a lot of basic questions and you can find some quick answers there.

 

[dav2008]

Yea...DC has a constant voltage(like when u connect a circuit to a battery...its always going to be , say, 12 Volts...(well not really since the battery has internal resistance, and i think the voltage goes down as the battery gets older...maybe not...))..
But in AC the voltage varies sinusoidaly...For example, most american outlets are 120 V and 60 hz..this means that the voltage goes between 120 and -120 60 times in a second...(correct me if I am wrong, please..i might be mistaken on some details_)

 

[drag]

Hertz is a unit of frequency - a full
cycle is when you return to your original
position - back AND forth.