Alternator Sentence Examples

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  • These currents are furnished by an alternator which transmits sine currents over the line and operates a motor at the distant end of the line, both machines running in synchronism.

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  • The impedance of the primary or alternator circuit is so adjusted that when both the chokers are in circuit the current flowing is not sufficient to charge the condensers; but when one choker is short-circuited the impedance is reduced so that the condenser is charged, but the alternating arc is not formed.

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  • In the point-by-point method the shaft of an alternator, or an alternating current motor driven in step with it, is furnished with an insulating disk having a metallic slip inserted in its edge.

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  • In another form devised by Callendar," a revolving contact disk is placed on the shaft of an alternator, or of a synchronous motor driven by the alternating current under test.

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  • Take the car to your mechanic to have the alternator checked for proper operation.

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  • If the contact springs can be moved round the disk so as to vary the instant of contact, we can plot out the value of the observed instantaneous voltage of the machine or circuit in a wavy curve, showing the wave form of the electromotive force of the alternator.

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  • Why did they need an up-rated alternator, I asked?

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  • The lightweight alternator supplying the power required by the motorcycle has an output of 720W at 60 amps.

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  • Retest with multi meter Meter reads 15- 20 volts alternator is charging too much, regulator is not working properly & needs replacement.

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  • An engine driven 85 amp alternator ensures that the batteries are always well charged up.

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  • To improve charging system performance under these conditions, a new, higher output alternator is now available.

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  • The engine alternator is 50 amps and we have an Ampair 100 wind generator with optional water turbine.

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  • The smaller gensets use a simple shaft mounted fan to keep the windings cool, much like a car alternator does.

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  • You might want to get new alternator bushings at the same time.

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  • There have been no recorded instances of the alternator pulley seizing on vehicles in the UK.

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  • The belt drives the alternator rotor in the coils to generate AC (then converted to DC for the car systems ).

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  • If you have no luck by now, you are most likely to have a failed alternator stator.

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  • Another major outage was caused by insulation failure in the alternator stator.

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  • My husband thinks that it may be the alternator belt tension.

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  • Just because it sits on mother earth it does not mean the alternator windings are electrically connected to earth.

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  • Up to that time an induction coil known as a ro-inch coil had sufficed for spark production, but it was evident that much more power would be required to send electric waves across the Atlantic. Transformers were therefore employed taking alternating electric current from an alternator driven by an oil or steam engine, and these high tension transformers were used to charge condensers and set up powerful oscillations in a multiple antenna.

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  • The engine 's sprag clutch and alternator need changing, and also the front brake disk.

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  • This contact may be made to close the circuit of a suitable voltmeter, or to charge a condenser in connexion with it, and the reading of the voltmeter will therefore not be the average or effective voltage of the alternator, but the instantaneous value of the electromotive force corresponding to that instant during the phase, determined by the position of the rotating contact slip with reference to the poles of the alternator.

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  • In this case the large vibrating mirror must be oscillated by a current from an alternator, on the shaft of which is a disk of nonconducting material with brass slips let into it and so arranged with contact brushes that in each period of the alternator a contact is made, charging say a condenser and discharging it through the oscillograph.

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  • Standard V shape pulley with boss to fit alternator or Dynalite.

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  • Short trips mean that the alternator doesn't have much time to recharge the battery while high temperatures can play havoc with the electrolyte solution and components of the battery.

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