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"philkryder" < @ > wrote in message
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> This definitional issue of "what is a permanent magnet" and "what is a
> permanent magnet generator" might clarify things a bit.
>
> Can you help?
>
> Thanks
> Phil
>

A permanent magnet generator/alternator/motor has permanent magnets (not
wires) in the stator, and coils in the rotor (or revered like our permanent
magnet alternators which have magnets for the rotor, and coils in the
stator). normal automotive alternators have coils in the stator and rotor,
no magnets, just magnetic fields generated by electricity, not rare earth
elements.

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Steve Spence
Director, Green-Trust

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