An alternator is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current. For reasons of cost and...

An alternator is a type of electric generator used in modern automobiles to charge the battery and to power the electrical system when its engine is running...

An Alexanderson alternator is a rotating machine invented by Ernst Alexanderson in 1904 for the generation of high-frequency alternating current for use...

compensated pulsed alternator, also known by the portmanteau compulsator, is a form of power supply. As the name suggests, it is an alternator that is "compensated"...

A linear alternator is essentially a linear motor used as an electrical generator. An alternator is a type of alternating current (AC) electrical generator...

electric motor, the alternating-current alternator, and the rotary converter. Today, the simpler alternator dominates large scale power generation, for...

BAS (belted alternator starter) is a category of automotive parallel hybrid technology that uses an electric motor to contribute power to the internal...

the car's electrical system must be maintained by the battery after the alternator stops generating current. Often the battery will be labeled as supporting...

from the alternator while the battery is being charged. Due to such a disconnection of the battery, other loads connected to the alternator experience...

This is a list of characters from The Transformers television series. The Autobots (also known as Cybertrons in Japan) are the heroes in the Transformers...

The Goldschmidt alternator or reflector alternator, invented in 1908 by German engineer Rudolph Goldschmidt, was a rotating machine which generated radio...

disconnect it automatically. Synchronous speeds for synchronous motors and alternators depend on the number of poles on the machine and the frequency of the...

the combination of a diesel engine with an electric generator (often an alternator) to generate electrical energy. This is a specific case of engine generator...

Single-phase generator (also known as single-phase alternator) is an alternating current electrical generator that produces a single, continuously alternating...

current. It is categorized as a form of alternator, although it is usually considered distinct from most other alternators, which use field coils rather than...

broad categories, dynamos and alternators. Dynamos generate pulsing direct current through the use of a commutator. Alternators generate alternating current...

speeds the alternator might disintegrate due to the high rotation speed tearing it apart. Because of this, as a precaution, while the alternator was being...

Starters Alternators is an album by Dutch post-punk band The Ex. It is the band's 10th studio album and was produced by Steve Albini for a 1998 CD released...

Transformers is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the heroic Autobots...

The Autobots are a fictional faction of sentient robots in the Transformers multimedia franchise. The Autobots are living robots from the planet Cybertron...

drive multiple peripheral devices in an automotive engine, such as an alternator, power steering pump, water pump, air conditioning compressor, air pump...

conditions where the alternator cannot maintain more than 13.8 volts (for a common 12V automotive electrical system). As alternator voltage falls below...

electromagnetic system in the electric motor, electric generator, or alternator. Its rotation is due to the interaction between the windings and magnetic...

Integrated Starter Alternator ISAD: Integrated Starter Alternator Damper CAS: Combined Alternator Starter CSA: Crankshaft Starter Alternator or Combined Starter...

battery is dead. Why? – The alternator is not functioning. Why? – The alternator belt has broken. Why? – The alternator belt was well beyond its useful...

and was issued the next year. It called for the use of a high-speed alternator (referred to as "an alternating-current dynamo") that generated "pure...

A flux switching alternator is a form of high-speed alternator, an AC electrical generator, intended for direct drive by a turbine. They are simple in...

current generators). Later generating units were British-made turbo-alternators. Most of the alternating current (AC) equipment operated at 6,600 volts...

the climate controls, and the infotainment system among others. The alternator is an AC device which uses a rectifier to produce DC for battery charging...

Early 20th-century alternator made in Budapest, Hungary, in the power generating hall of a hydroelectric station (photograph by Prokudin-Gorsky, 1905–1915)...