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Arc around the commutator

Arc around the commutator

Arc around the commutator

(OP)
I would like to know the english term used about an arc burning in an electric motor around the commutator.
"Circular arc fault at commutator" or how do you call this phenomena?  

RE: Arc around the commutator

I have used the word 'flashover' in several reports an the yanks seem to understand what I mean.

In German it is 'Rundfeuer'. We use 'rundslag' in Swedish.  

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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RE: Arc around the commutator

I haven't seen that for years. We called it "Ringing the Comm".
 

Bill
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Jimmy Carter

RE: Arc around the commutator

(OP)
Thanks a lot. Tack så mycket.

RE: Arc around the commutator

Oops! Swedish?

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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100 % recycled posting: Electrons, ideas, finger-tips have been used over and over again...

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