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What 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,
by elzbardico 3mo ago
What 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.