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The article is stupidly wrong. You don't need less generators or alternator with higher frequencies. Instead, for each generator you have, you need less copper
by elzbardico 3mo ago
The article is stupidly wrong. You don't need less generators or alternator with higher frequencies.
Instead, for each generator you have, you need less copper winding, less iron mass, making generators smallers.
Also, transformers get smaller for the same reason, and thus, lighter.
- MiroslavPokorny 3mo agoPlanes dont have generators, like many systems on a plane from air to electricity they leverage the power units they already have - the big engines on the wings.
- elzbardico 3mo agoWhat do you call a thing with a stator and a rotor with a rotating shaft mechanically linked somehow to those big engines? If it generates alternating current, you call it an alternator. If it generates continuous current, you call it a generator. Be sure you know what you're talking about before trying to be pedantic.
- MiroslavPokorny 2mo agoThe article speaks of generator quantities on a plane as separate machines from the jet engines. In fact it never informs the reader that the jet engines provide the electricity. One without any knowledge might assume from the article that a plane contains multiple generators and turns some on and off as necessary.