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How your car’s battery and alternator team up

Your car only starts reliably because two electrical workhorses share the load. The battery delivers instant power on demand, ...
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How a weak alternator can shut your car down fast

Your alternator quietly does more than keep the battery topped up. It turns the engine’s rotation into a steady flow of ...
Electronic Design

Differences in Protection: Power over Ethernet vs. Power over Data Line

If you’re designing anything with Power over Ethernet (PoE) or Power over Data Line (PoDL), these systems can be directly ...
IEEE

The Research of an Equivalent Load Used for Testing an Air-Core Pulsed Alternator

Abstract: The air-core pulsed alternator has the integrated advantages of high energy density and high power density. It has important applications in new concept kinetic energy weapons such as ...
IEEE

Impact Study of Commutation and Diode Open Circuits on the Excitation Capacity of WRSGs Based on a System-Level Semiphysical Crosslinking Test

Abstract: Wound-rotor synchronous generators (WRSGs) are the main structures used in aircraft power systems. As a key component of WRSGs for realizing brushless commutation, rotary rectifiers (RRs) ...