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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 ...
Hackaday

Deep Fission Wants To Put Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground

Today’s pressurized water reactors (PWRs) are marvels of nuclear fission technology that enable gigawatt-scale power stations in a very compact space. Though they are extremely safe, with only the TMI ...
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) ...