alt.energy.renewable

On Aug 30, 6:42 pm, Tater wrote:
> On Aug 30, 10:32 am, gearhead wrote:
>
> > > Cars used to have permanenet magnet generators
>
> > Which cars? Are you sure?>From what I know of antique vehicles with dc generators -- series-
>
> > wound, with segmented commutators -- they did not use magnets. I
> > speak from my experience with antique Harleys and GM trucks.
> > The only vehicles I know use magnets are motorcycles, and they use
>
> your experience needs to be corrected. yes they had commutators,
> because the magnets were in the case, not the armature.

I don't know how read "magnets in the armature" into my post.
Do I write so badly?
I've only encountered iron pole shoes -- in my limited experience.
They're basically big slugs of iron bolted to the generator case.
Separate coils fit around the pole shoes.
I'm going to do a little research to find out which manufacturers used
magnets
in the generators (and how they regulated them).


>
> had some nice suckers in there, most autoshops pulled em out to use
> for welding magnets