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Linear Alternator

Linear Alternator

Linear Alternator

(OP)
Can anyone help me with some tips to get the output current from a 'Moving coil' Linear alternator?

RE: Linear Alternator

Don't you mean input current?

RE: Linear Alternator

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Ah, nope an Alternator; converts mechanical into electrical energy.

RE: Linear Alternator

Get your hands on a classical college text on alternators. They often describe how 'normal alternators' work by unwinding them and laying them out conceptually flat.

Rotating Electric Machinery by Donald V. Richardson is one of them.

Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com

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