Your car needs electricity. You don't have mice striking flint in your engine's combustion chambers, nor do you have kerosene lamps for headlights. You might be able to hire a string quartet to ...

From the earliest days of motoring, cars have evolved dramatically. The very first car envisioned by Carl Benz bears little resemblance to the vehicles we drive today; since then, engineers have found ...

Slip rings maintain constant contact with the same sides of the coil As one side of the coil moves up through the magnetic field, a potential difference is induced (created) in one direction. As the ...

An electric current can be induced in in a coil of wire by moving a magnet in and out of the coil. AC generators are used in the generation of electricity and in their simplest form consist of a coil ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We don't usually talk or think about generators, but they can be real lifesavers when power outages happen. A backup generator will keep your ...

When Chevrolet introduced the redesigned Corvette in 1963 one of the new features was the Delcotron alternator that replaced the venerable generator. Dubbed the 10 DN, the externally regulated ...