Design engineers know that both brush DC and brushless DC (BLDC) motors can operate as generators, but many tend to avoid running brushed DC motors in generating mode because they believe it is ...

Today, most electric machines operate with radial flux (RF). Magnax offers a new concept, though—a machine that operates with axial flux (AF). Figure 1 provides a comparison of the RF and AF ...

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published NEMA MG 1-2014 Motors and Generators. Dec. 23, 2014 The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published NEMA MG 1-2014 ...

Christine and Scott Gable are hybrid auto and alternative fuel experts who have brewed their own biodiesel and traveled 125,000 miles on waste vegetable oil. Electric vehicles rely exclusively on ...

[Robert Murray-Smith] doesn’t like the price of inverters to convert DC to AC. That led him to build a dynamotor, or what is sometimes called a motor-generator set. These devices are just DC motors ...

“Our dealers, as a routine matter, ask the type of questions [shown] to ensure the generator meets the application requirements,” says John Garcia, Doosan Portable Power. “The supplier’s goal is to ...